Lydia Leong

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Lydia Leong
Research VP
11 years at Gartner
19 years IT industry

Lydia Leong is a research vice president in the Technology and Service Providers group at Gartner. Her primary research focus is cloud computing, together with Internet infrastructure services, such as Web hosting, content delivery networks…Read Full Bio

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Google Federal

by Lydia Leong  |  February 3, 2009  |  Comments Off

I heard a radio ad today for Google Federal. It sounded like every other “please, government IT purchasing person, buy our stuff” ad that you hear on news radio in Washington DC. It was a far cry from the sort of ad that one expects to hear from Google, and to hear a federal-targeted ad from them, period, was sort of fascinating.

The Federal government can still afford stuff (and is probably one of the few bright spots in purchasing this year, period). It’s the states that are screwed, and seriously thinking about alternatives to traditional IT.

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