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 As more and more large enterprises start to make public adoptions of cloud and service providers figuring out the role they play in the market, one of the biggest potential cloud adopters has been watching and looking for signs that the market can support one of the most public facing ...May. 9, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 713 |
 Government agencies are reportedly one of the primary benefactors of managed cloud services. According to the results from a recent market study by IDC, IT decision-makers across the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) found that 59 percent of public sector respondents are confident ...May. 9, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 643 |
 Community cloud services are services that are shared by multiple members of a community. They centralize the functions and can provide specific mission requirements. The mission requirements can be related to specific policies and compliance. Community clouds leverage the benefits of ...May. 8, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 654 |
 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: 642 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under six weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strateg...May. 6, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,533 |
 Policies and procedures for Cloud solutions and services should be established as part of Enterprise Cloud Giovernance. Plug and Play for Cloud Services is not enough!
Enterprise Cloud Governance is the specification of policies and procedures for Cloud solutions and services for the ...May. 4, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,045 |
 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: 1,068 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just seven weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...Apr. 26, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,168 |
 Today’s federal cybersecurity and IT news: Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, commander the 24th Air Force and Air Force’s Cyber Air Component to USCYBERCOM emphasized the importance of “full-spectrum” cybersecurity that prepares for offense, defense and exploitation....Apr. 21, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 785 |
 Only ten weeks to go! Time for an alphabetical summary of the many leading-edge themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) - being held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Convention Center in New York City and co-located with Big Data Expo 2012 New York ...Apr. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,330 |
 Last year on our Open Government webinar Andy MacLeod of Cisco presented on G-Cloud, the UK program to adopt Government Cloud Computing, providing an initial basis for our G-Cloud section in GovCloud.info. (Join our GovCloud Linkedin networking group here). Mar. 31, 2012 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,208 |
 The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program established in December 2011 to speed the adoption of cloud computing. FedRAMP includes a set of requirements for federal cloud computing and universal procedures for approving services and pro...Jan. 18, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,749 |
 As we head into Thanksgiving Weekend, we bring a brief round-up of some of the many follow-up comments we have been receiving since November's 9th Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, CA. Thanks for your thanks, and see you on the other side...when the countdown steadily begins to New York's meg...Nov. 25, 2011 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,633 |
 The doors open today on 9th Cloud Expo - Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - the biggest event in the world-beating Cloud Expo series to date, with more members of the cloud computing ecosystem gathered than anyone has ever seen before in one place, to play catch-up with Internet technology's ...Nov. 7, 2011 03:30 PM EST Reads: 3,703 |
 What better time, with just a few days now to go before Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo), to bring you a series in which we introduce you in greater detail to our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference? We have technical and strategy sessions f...Nov. 3, 2011 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,831 |
 Security remains the number one obstacle to adoption of cloud computing for businesses and federal agencies. Regardless of the deployment model selected--private, public, community, or hybrid—conquering security concerns is required for cloud computing to achieve its full potential as...Oct. 7, 2011 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,525 |
 What does the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Abiquo, Apprenda, Tier3, OutSystems and OpSource, the Co-Founder & CTO of Dell Boomi, the CTOs of Rackspace, rPath, Compuware, BMC, NextIO, SoftLayer, SOASoftware, Gale Technologies, CiRBA and UShar...Sep. 22, 2011 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,327 |
 An alphabetical selection of some of the many themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) - being held November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. The markets may still be melting, but Cloud Expo is definitely coming of age! Sep. 21, 2011 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,659 |
 I wonder how much Vivek Kundra's departure will slow down the government's innovation, which is already too slow! I may be able to understand Vivek's frustration with the Federal Government. He is responsible for Data.gov. His plans to consolidate over 800 federal data centers, the ...Jul. 1, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,775 |
 In October 2009, Enterprise Cloud Computing was considered bleeding edge technology by many but there was something that seemed different about its value potential and adoption rate. For CIOs, it seemed a chance to provision affordable infrastructure quickly, alleviating delays to miss...Jun. 24, 2011 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 14,394 Replies: 1 |
 In the Fall of 2009, while she was Deputy CIO of the Central Intelligence Agency, Jill Tummler Singer shared with attending conference delegates her view that Enterprise Cloud Computing was "The Infrastructure's Ultimate Revenge" - no...May. 30, 2011 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,882 |
 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: 12,395 |
 The City & County of San Francisco has decided to let Microsoft host the email accounts for 23,000 employees in an Exchange Cloud Computing architecture, at a cost of about $1 per week per person. It will consolidate several existing email systems in the process.
The $1.2 million an...May. 19, 2011 04:39 AM EDT Reads: 2,320 |
 I'm returning to the US this week after spending more than a year in Asia. I'm pessimistic about many things, as I recently explained in a separate article.
But let's talk about the rays of light in today's grim global greyness. Let's talk about Cloud Expo.
I don't know much, but...Apr. 6, 2011 11:35 PM EDT Reads: 5,002 |
 We have discussed this before and I'm sure we will talk about it again - government cutbacks and consolidation of cloud hosting. New York has opened an enormous new data center in Brooklyn where the city will centralize all its infrastructure for its agencies of the decade.
It has i...Mar. 17, 2011 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,293 |
 The decision framework for cloud migration that US Federal CIO Vivek Kundra recently published as part of his Federal cloud computing strategy, offers advice applicable to all organizations.
In my last blog, a cloud of two speeds, I mentioned Vivek Kundra's very readable cloud strate...Mar. 3, 2011 09:30 AM EST Reads: 4,927 |
 Delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors will be traveling from all over the world to New York this coming June 6-9 to attend 8th International Cloud Expo in New York City, co-located at the Jacob Javits Convention Center with 11th Virtualization Conference & Expo.
Here is an ea...Feb. 19, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 14,854 |
 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: 4,512 |
 In reading Vivek Kundra’s “25 Point Implementation Plan To Reform Federal Information”, I was struck by the anecdote regarding how the lack of scalability was the cause for outages and, ultimately, delays in processing transactions on the Car Allowance and Rebate System (CARS) or as it...Feb. 1, 2011 06:15 AM EST Reads: 4,516 |
 "We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesn’t just change our lives. It’s how we make a living." With this one sentence, President Barack Obama ushered in once...Jan. 29, 2011 09:00 AM EST Reads: 9,831 |
 The most compelling argument for Governments to adopt Cloud Computing is Open Government.
Migrating the legacy data-centre to the Cloud will happen but will move slowly due to IT complexities and the usual resistance to outsourcing, whereas in contrast the Cloud is ideal for public-fa...Jan. 27, 2011 01:29 PM EST Reads: 3,458 |
 Public-facing web sites belonging to the US Treasury Department like the agency main site treasury.gov and little numbers like MyMoney.gov, TIGTA.gov, SIGTARP.gov and IRSOversightBoard.treasury.gov have moved to Amazon EC2 according to government contractor Smartronix, responsible for ...Jan. 17, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 6,324 |
 Open Government best practices can be utilized to transform national innovation programs.
Canada is scoring a 'D for Innovation', and falling behind other nations in their innovation capacities.
They also have perceived issues around the bite of their Open Government watchdogs, and w...Jan. 16, 2011 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,340 |
 "One day the cloud really will be big..." concludes an article in this week's international print edition of The Economist, an intriguing article that sets out to quantify the size of the three main layers of the cloud computing ecosystem.Jan. 3, 2011 07:30 AM EST Reads: 7,559 |
 A few months back, in a story mostly about Microsoft’s complicated relationship with the Russian government and its seemingly dualistic role in the ongoing suppression of various free speech and human rights organizations, we also surfaced contemporaneous reports in the Russian languag...Dec. 29, 2010 04:15 AM EST Reads: 3,938 |
 Cloud Computing Journal authors look at the short- and mid-term future of the Cloud. Today we start with KEVIN L. JACKSON Editor, Government Cloud Computing on Ulitzer, and LARRY CARVALHO, the 2011 Instructor of Cloud Expo's ever popular Cloud Computing Bootcamp.Dec. 28, 2010 09:45 AM EST Reads: 7,672 |
 Vivek Kundra, the CIO of the United States, is getting down to business on the “Cloud First” initiative that was announced by the OMB a few weeks back. He’s been showing a snappy slide deck around town in DC the past few days that will probably affect different people in very differen...Dec. 21, 2010 12:05 AM EST Reads: 4,348 |
 Launched by our Cloud Ventures incubator, the Open Government Innovation network is a CoP (Community of Practice) focused on the dynamic of how Cloud computing technologies can enable the policies of Open Government. Best practices innovation community This actually aligns wholly with ...Dec. 15, 2010 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,642 |
 If there were ever two concepts that are representative of where we are today in technology, they would have to be Government 2.0 and Community. Unfortunately, they are also two of the most overused and over-hyped phrases in our technology vocabulary.
Government 2.0 is a general term...Dec. 15, 2010 10:30 AM EST Reads: 5,083 |
| Vivek Kundra, White House CIO, has just published a 25 point plan to reform federal IT spending, to deliver better Business Value to the American public for their $80 billion a year spending. What is exciting to our Cloud Ventures point of view is the shift to a “Cloud first̶... Dec. 15, 2010 07:45 AM EST Reads: 4,922 |
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