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On Tuesday, Vivek Kundra, U.S. chief information officer, announced the launch of Apps.gov on The White House blog. Kundra credited Obama’s government innovation initiative as the reason for the new site.

CNN International has called Apps.gov the “App Store” for the government and the moniker doesn’t seem to be that far off. In the blog Kundra describes the site as “an online storefront for federal agencies to quickly browse and purchase cloud-based IT services.”

Most of you might be asking, as I did, what cloud-based means. Well, fortunately Kundra, and in my case the computer geniuses in my office, explained that cloud is the next step in IT.

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