In a fledgling and rapidly growing industry, companies like Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Salesforce.com Inc, the world’s biggest maker of Web-based software, are trying to move rapidly to provide cloud computing services — where data is stored on remote servers — to corporations and the U.S. government, which spends about $80 billion each year on technology.
“The cloud can allow teleworkers to easily and securely access their data and work from wherever they happen to be,” Mike Bradshaw, who heads Google’s federal cloud computing program, said at a congressional hearing.
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The United States, seeking to modernize technology and reduce costs, is embracing “cloud computing,” but privacy and security issues need to be ironed out during a decade-long transition, U.S. officials said on Thursday.