The Business  Sorry, this video has expired  Former White House
tech guru talks technology  Updated February 15, 2012 01:10:03
Vivek Kundra spearheaded an efficiency drive in the US
government, lifting it out of the technology dark ages.  Source:
The Business | Duration: 5min 47sec  Topics: internet-
technology, economic-trends, security-intelligence, hacking,
united-states   TICKY FULLERTON, PRESENTER:  Former first chief
information officer of the United States, Vivek Kundra, is the
man who catapulted the US into the cyber-future.  He says the
White House was in the technology dark ages when he joined in
2009; even president Obama had to fight to get a Blackberry. He
spearheaded an efficiency drive in the US government's IT
bureaucracy that had bloated out to 2,000 data centres, and
launched it into cloud computing.  I spoke to him earlier from
Canberra and he says the sky is the limit.  Vivek Kundra, thank
you for joining us.   TICKY FULLERTON:  Since you are down in
Canberra, I should ask you: there was a