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 George Newstrom, head of Dell's federal government defense and national security business, outlines the evolution of information technology from mainframes and servers to "disruptive" technologies such as cloud computing and mobile devices.
Platform one saw mainframes and terminals hi...May. 3, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,154 |
 In an internal reorg, IBM's Tivoli, Maximo, TRIRIGA, Endpoint Manager, and Netcool branded offerings, as well as its SmartCloud service management offerings, are now to be clustered under an "overarching umbrella" called IBM Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure. The new division, says IBM, r...Apr. 30, 2013 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,093 |
 “Our common interest in open source solutions has enabled OSSI to put together an all-star team of Government, commercial and community partners,” said John Farrell of HP/Fortify, OSSI's volunteer chairman and Chief Information Security Officer, as OSSI named several new members to its...Mar. 27, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,889 |
 Oracle Tuesday came in with slightly better-than-expected results in its
second fiscal quarter ended November 30.
Revenues were up 3% to $9.1 billion, ahead of Wall Street’s consensus of
$9.03 billion. Oracle’s own guidance had estimated an increase of zero to
4%.
It cleared n...Dec. 19, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,006 |
 US Attorney General Eric Holder has named Renata Hesse acting head of Justice Department’s Antitrust Division to replace departing chief Joseph Wayland. Hesse was the lead lawyer in the remedies phase of DOJ’s antitrust suit against Microsoft and she also involved in trying to stop Ora...Nov. 26, 2012 11:40 AM EST Reads: 3,755 |
 I'm happy and proud to announce the release of my second book, "GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services" by my publisher Government Training Inc.
The public and private sector have vigorously embraced cloud computing and its implementation is increasing efficiency a...Oct. 21, 2012 10:56 PM EDT Reads: 2,601 |
 NJVC, an information technology (IT) solutions provider headquartered in Northern Virginia, introduces Cloudcuity, a new framework for the company’s cloud service offerings to help customers transition their technology applications to a cloud environment while cutting spending, improvi...Sep. 13, 2012 11:28 AM EDT Reads: 2,637 |
 NJVC announces the release of NJVC SaaS Accelerate, a specialized infrastructure hosting and managed services offering designed to support the business needs of software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers.Aug. 25, 2012 10:58 AM EDT Reads: 2,562 |
 CTOlabs.com is a research tool information on technologies, concepts and companies of interest to enterprise IT professionals. The CTOlabs Disruptive IT List is a curated list of firms we believe hold the greatest potential for positive disruption in the enterprise IT space. Our wri... Aug. 19, 2012 07:36 AM EDT Reads: 3,006 |
 All around the world, governments at national, state, and local levels are facing huge pressures to do more with less. As cloud computing gains traction and momentum, many public sector organizations are exploring its usage to achieve large-scale efficiency savings while simultaneousl...Aug. 19, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,884 |
 You don’t often hear the words ‘Government’ and ‘Innovation’ together, however while the USA`s Cloud First initiative certainly kick-started more Cloud adoption, really the important part of this development has been the emergence of the public sector as a...Aug. 18, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,209 |
 Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Customs and Border Protection plans to purchase an outside computer program to track aircraft inventories despite Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s call to use existing capabilities. More here.... Aug. 10, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,993 |
 With the upcoming OASIS conference being held at the Microsoft HQ in Washington DC, and my first session being focused on “Digital Government”, it’s helpful to showcase what their offering is. Cloud Connected Government Digital Government is the headline program recen...Aug. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,974 |
 The DoD recently released the department's formal cloud computing strategy.
In the forward, DoD CIO Teresa Takai said that:
"The DoD Cloud Computing Strategy has been expanded to address use of commercial cloud services in the Department's multi-provider enterprise cloud environment....Jul. 16, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,208 |
 The 12th anniversary of the federal ESIGN Act is an opportunity to reflect on how government - the original early adopter of e-signatures - has led the way in using electronic signatures to reduce paper consumption, accelerate decisions and save taxpayer dollars.
The need to trace and...Jul. 5, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,849 |
 Coalfire Systems, Inc. announced that it has achieved accreditation as a FedRAMP Third Party Assessment Organization.
The FedRAMP program supports the U.S. government’s objective to enable U.S. federal agencies to use managed service providers that enable cloud computing capabilitie...Jun. 26, 2012 06:03 AM EDT Reads: 1,872 |
 TORONTO – June 12, 2012 – PerspecSys Inc., the leader in cloud data protection solutions for the enterprise, today announced it has become a Corporate Member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The CSA is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the us...Jun. 12, 2012 08:35 AM EDT Reads: 1,573 |
| Last week the GSA FedRAMP Program Office released the latest version of the cloud computing Security Assessment Plan (SAR) template. This document is the most recent step toward the Federal governments goal of establishing FedRAMP initial operating Capability by June 2012.
The Federa... May. 8, 2012 04:50 AM EDT Reads: 3,803 |
 A recent study revealed that the government is saving around $5.5 billion a year since the shift to cloud, according to this CRN article. The study was created from interviews with 108 federal IT managers and CIOs and was published by MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange. The study also f...May. 4, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,772 |
 Our next upcoming webinar is entitled GovCloud 2.0, and a headline topic we will be introducing is called ‘Harnessing Enterprise Search for IM best practices‘. IM is of course Information Management and refers to all aspects of Governments needs to managed records. Presiden...Apr. 19, 2012 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,735 |
 The Obama Administration Thursday unveiled a Big Data Research and Development Initiative that will see the six federal agencies and departments put $200 million or more into Big Data R&D.
These new commitments are supposed to improve the tools and techniques needed to access, organi...Apr. 2, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,562 |
 It’s always exciting to be part of a visionary undertaking—especially one that is succeeding so well, and on such a large scale.
A full seven years after commencing the largest e-signature initiative ever undertaken in government, the US Army continued its commitment to paperless proc...Nov. 16, 2011 04:55 AM EST Reads: 3,489 |
 In December 2010, the U.S. Federal government awarded cloud computing contracts that totaled over $2B in value. It also announced a mandatory "cloud first" policy, requiring every agency to deploy at least three of its services to the cloud. This transition represents a monumental chan...May. 29, 2011 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 17,800 |
 Startup America is the Whitehouse policy program to create jobs and stimulate the economy through enabling more entrepreneurs to start new businesses.
The recent financial crisis has had such a dreadful impact on so many families that this initiative is almost like a post-war effort t...Apr. 26, 2011 11:37 AM EDT Reads: 3,545 |
 Since the CIO.gov site is down for maintenance I wanted to help spread the word on this new document, the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy.
I hate to say this, but I have not read it myself yet! But I have read everything else Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has had a hand in publishing an...Feb. 12, 2011 07:30 AM EST Reads: 5,954 |
 The Whitehouse Office of Management and Budget has announced that, from now on, cloud computing would be the “default approach to IT” for US government agencies. The move comes as an element of a sweeping set of government IT reforms begun last summer intended to “close the IT gap” be...Nov. 25, 2010 10:15 AM EST Reads: 13,873 |
 Cloud and virtualization are the Power Couple of enterprise computing: the cloud offers potentially unlimited scalability (both up and down) while the virtualization of resources ensures that system management issues are hidden from the end-user. It is a marriage made in heaven. As ent...May. 31, 2010 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,364 |
 Where cloud computing is concerned, the Enterprise IT industry has gone from asking 'What?' and 'Why?' to asking 'How?' and 'When?' - making 2010 the year that company after company, organization after organization, and government agency after government agency is moving, or beginning ...May. 28, 2010 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,673 |
 Telework is one of the latest crazes to hit the government. Telework sites are being okayed for some 3-letter agencies. Currently, VPNs are accessible, and capable ways of enabling telework, but even if the technology is available, what are the cultural changes necessary? Allan Holm...May. 27, 2010 11:42 AM EDT Reads: 5,801 |
 Christopher Dorobek of Federal News Radio moderated a panel that focused on how to use collaborative technology to improve procurement. There have infinite conferences regarding procurement, so talking about it isn’t new, but the BetterBuy Project, a platform that enables the pu...May. 27, 2010 10:42 AM EDT Reads: 5,546 |
 Within the $79 billion--which is actually a slight reduction from the 2010 budget--there is a $50 million allocation for cross-governmental experimentation, as nicely reported by Wyatt Kash in the far-more-responsible-than-BW publication Government Computer News. Kash further reported ...Mar. 15, 2010 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 12,511 |
 CORAID, a developer of scale-out storage solutions with more than 1,100 customers worldwide, on Tuesday announced that the CORAID EtherDrive product family has been added to TVAR Solutions' GSA Schedule. CORAID storage solutions have already been deployed throughout a range of civilian...Mar. 9, 2010 06:00 AM EST Reads: 6,226 |
 Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source Software (OSS) and Geospatial technologies are poised for increased federal government adoption over the next five years as cost-saving initiatives drive investment in these solutions, according to new re...Dec. 15, 2009 10:45 PM EST Reads: 11,243 |
 This week's Federal Executive Forum taping highlighted collaboration between DISA and the Army on the service's transition to cloud comp... Nov. 9, 2009 07:30 AM EST Reads: 8,422 |
 "With cloud computing, price to deploy applications goes through the floor while flexibility to scale those applications goes through the ceiling!" says WaveMaker CEO Chris Keene, in this lively round-up of The State of Cloud Computing compiled and published by Conference Chair Jeremy ...Nov. 3, 2009 07:15 AM EST Reads: 37,398 Replies: 1 |
 Since the July 24th entry, Cloud Concerns Over Los Angeles, I have continued to monitor closely LA City’s decision to migrate to a cloud computing environment. As myriad organizations (e.g., Cloud Security Alliance, NIST, etc.) race to understand cloud computing risks, I continue to b...Oct. 28, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,856 |
 Turns out one of the government's key witnesses in its insider trading case against the Galleon Group hedge fund - the one that's brought down a senior IBM executive a heartbeat or two away from IBM's CEO - used to be employed by Intel and was charged in 2001 in a sealed criminal compl...Oct. 26, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,170 |
 What is enterprise cloud computing? Simply stated, it’s a behind-the-firewalls use of commercial, Internet-based cloud technologies specifically focused on one company’s or one business environment’s computing needs. Enterprise cloud computing is a controlled, internal place that offe...Oct. 21, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 27,524 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Ulitzer was named exclusive "new media" sponsor of the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place November 2 - 3 - 4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. 4th International Cloud Computing Con...Oct. 20, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 21,160 |
 "Many people don't realize - or forget - that some of our greatest advancements in the 20th century grew out of innovation in the space and intel programs in the Federal government. We may be returning to that with regard to Cloud Computing." In this brief interview with SYS-CON's Clo...Oct. 19, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 20,054 Replies: 1 |
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