Cloud Computing: VMware CIO quits firm to join White House
February 6, 2015
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Joe Curtis.
VMware CIO Tony Scott is joining the White House to perform the same role for President Barack Obama. Scott is leaving the virtualisation firm to become the US government’s third CIO, charged with delivering the administration’s Smarter IT Delivery Agenda. According to a statement from the White House released yesterday, his responsibilities include providing world-class digital services, deriving value from existing IT investments and protecting IT assets.
Scott, who joined VMware in 2013, succeeds previous US government CIOs Vivek Kundra and Steve VanRoekel, who helped establish the US Digital Service (USDS), which took inspiration from the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS). Jennifer Pahlka, who set up USDS, was at Whitehall’s Sprint 15 event this week to talk about the progress USDS has made in transforming public services…
She said it has growing significance within the American government, adding that it now has a budget of $20 million with which it will seek to expand its skillbase. She said: “[That] is still smaller than it should be but it’s a great step forward, and I think their focus right now is just recruitment…
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