This is the news section for the federal government section of this research. 05/01/2009 Federal Web Portal Moves to Cloud Computing Platform The federal government's massive information portal -- USA.gov -- will shift to a cloud computing platform this weekend in a move that GSA officials say will slash infrastructure expenses and provide better flexibility...read more. 04/30/2009 US Federal CIO Cloud Computing Summit Interesting developments over the last couple days in regards to Cloud Computing within the US Federal Government. I have had the honor of being invited to Washington DC next week to attend the US Federal Government Cloud Computing Summit. The summit is being hosted by the US government's first CIO, Vivek Kundra. The purpose of this invite only meeting is to provide a forum to discuss the opportunities and challenges to implementing cloud computing solutions with-in the federal government...read more. 04/30/2009 Federal government cloud adoption will triple by 2013, report says Government agencies are moving slower on cloud computing than the IT industry as a whole, but federal government spending on the cloud will nearly triple by 2013, a new report says...read more. 04/30/2009 DISA's Cloud Computing Initiatives Cloud computing is among the hottest topics in the federal government, with its efficiencies promising to save agencies and eventually taxpayers money. Despite its attractiveness, few agencies have implemented any type of cloud computing initiative, mostly because of IT security concerns...read more. 04/25/2009 Federal CIO Vivek Kundra Sees Potential Of Cloud Computing Cloud computing has a supporter in Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, who told me in an April 23 interview that he saw potential for big savings with the cloud approach. In fact, the fed’s information portal, USA.gov, is being moved to a cloud-computing infrastructure within weeks...read more. 04/22/2009 Agencies predicted to move to cloud computing cautiously The federal government's use of Web-based software applications will expand significantly during the Obama administration, according to a report released on Tuesday...read more. 04/20/2009 California Sec. Of State Keen On Tech California Secretary of State Debra Bowen spoke to the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet's Politics Online conference on Monday about how she has embraced new technologies to make government more accessible and accountable to the public....read more. 04/19/2009 Data.gov Will Redefine Data-as-a-Service I’ve been in several meetings recently that have hit on the topic of Data.gov. Data.gov will become a repository for all the information the government collects, and that information will be in turn available to anyone who needs it....read more 04/17/2009 Recovery Recommendations From I School Faculty Sent to the US Government A consortium of 32 public interest groups recommends information and service architectures proposed by I School professors Erik Wilde and Eric Kansa and I School lecturer Raymond Yee to guide transparency measures for the $800 billion federal stimulus package...read more. 04/14/2009 A Tactical Cloud Computing Ontology In an effort to encourage standards and interoperability, the cloud computing community is currently discussing architectural ontologies. Core to most approaches is an assumption of open access...more Federal Agencies Pick Up Their Interest in Cloud Computing 04/14/2009 Federal agencies are now officially exploring cloud computing as an option for some of their information technology requirements. This development represents a significant shift from the quiet pilot activity so characteristic of new technology in the Federal space....read more. 04/06/2009 Yet another government attempt at cybersecurity The timing of two cybersecurity bills just introduced by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) seems a bit funny. It is not so much that they were introduced on April Fools' Day; more importantly, they were introduced before the widespread review of U.S. cybersecurity ordered by President Obama is completed by Melissa Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils...read more. Why Open Standards Are Important for Government Transformation 04/03/2009 This one-day workshop on April 17 offers a unique opportunity for professionals from the World Bank, leading public administrations and the private sector to share experiences in using open standards for transforming government. Issues surrounding public financial management, e-procurement, cloud computing, electronic identification, security, and interoperability frameworks will be discussed...read more... Vivek's Plan: More Google For Government 04/03/2009 "America's CIO" Vivek Kundra recently gave a rare public speech since his appointment into office, and Government Computer News attended the event...read more... Kundra courts the risk of innovation 04/02/2009 Cool as a cucumber in the still chilly spring ground: That was our impression of Vivek Kundra the morning we met him backstage after his speech at the FOSE government information technology trade show...read more... Federal Government Up in the Air About Cloud Computing, Survey Finds 04/02/2009 Uncertainty about cloud computing and an uptick in virtualization deployments are key trends in government IT, according to a survey administered at FOSE 2009 by ScienceLogic, a leading IT Operations Management provider. For the third year in a row, the survey asked federal government network engineers, systems administrators and IT managers about the challenges they face in 2009 and what technologies and IT projects are most important to them...read more... Weather report: Slow-moving cloud for government IT 04/02/2009 With federal spending advancing far beyond the trillion-dollar level (although a huge amount of that is going to the states), government purchasers have no shortage of friends hailing from Silicon Valley. Chief among them are locally based Google reps, who are keen on getting the federal government to adopt Cloud Computing as the future of document storage and collaboration...read more... Tech Firms Seek to Get Agencies on Board With Cloud Computing 03/31/2009 Consumers save their e-mail and documents on Google's data centers, put their photos on Flickr and store their social lives on Facebook. Now a host of companies including Amazon and Microsoft wants government agencies to similarly house data on their servers as a way to cut costs and boost efficiency...read more... Cloud computing comes to D.C. in .gov 'war game' 03/19/2009 The dice were hot, and Will Carroll was playing his cards just right. After leading his team to a solid second-place finish in a fast-paced, complex cloud computing "war game," Carroll seemed like a true management whiz...read more... Amazon targets new web services customer: Uncle Sam 01/13/2009 Amazon.com has targeted its cloud-computing business at startup companies, large enterprises, and the scientific community. Now it appears to be making a play for government agencies...read more... |