Vivek Kundra Says IT Industry Must Focus On Innovation: Cites Health IT, Smart Grids

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has formed a new business unit headed by Executive Vice President Vivek Kundra that will offer social, mobile and connected cloud tools in six sectors. “As we look to grow to $10 billion and beyond, our new industries strategy is a huge opportunity for salesforce.com to expand our footprint within existing customers and reach new enterprise customers,

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has appointed Vivek Kundra, former federal chief information officer, as the company’s executive vice president of emerging markets, the company announced Monday. Dan Burton, senior vice president and the general manager for the company’s global public sector business, defines emerging markets as rapidly growing economies, such as Brazil and India, which are also rapidly

The federal government is excited about the cloud – although there are some concerns about privacy and security as the decade-long implementation moves forward. “The cloud can allow teleworkers to easily and securely access their data and work from wherever they happen to be, ” Mike Bradshaw, lead of Google’s federal cloud computing program, said