For the federal government overall, it means reducing the wasteful spending that results from the building of duplicative IT solutions, says a draft report report from the Federal CIO Council.

FORBES: From CIA to OMB, Federal Government Gets Serious About Cloud

Finally, to demonstrate the support for FirstGov among IT professionals, at a conference last week of State Chief Information Officers involving the Federal CIO Council, the States said they thought FirstGov was a tremendous advance and asked how they could work with the CIO council and be a part of it!

WHITEHOUSE: Statement of The Honorable Sally Katzen