Archive for Government

  • Google cloud computing apps get certification for US government use Google cloud computing apps get certification for US government use

    Google wants the federal government to use its e-mail. The company earned federal certification last week for its cloud-based e-mail, calendar and other collaboration applications after the General Services Administration determined they met moderate-level federal security requirements. It's t...

  • Big Blue will work with governments and academia on Big Blue will work with governments and academia on “fundamentally new notion” of an interoperation hub.

    IBM said it plans to collaborate with European researchers to develop a computing architecture that will allow businesses to more easily blend cloud services from multiple providers. The effort aims to overcome one of the largest obstacles to broad adoption of cloud computing—complex and expens...

  • Microsoft Cloud Computing Center opens in Taiwan Microsoft Cloud Computing Center opens in Taiwan

    Microsoft opened a joint cloud computing center with Taiwan's economics ministry on Thursday at the Computex electronics show, and announced a plan to work with two local companies on new designs for servers meant specifically for cloud computing, the growing trend towards decentralized, virtualized...

  • Cloud Computing in Moscow Cloud Computing in Moscow

    I had the privilege of keynoting a data center conference in Moscow this week, speaking on the topic of what cloud computing means to the data center of the future. This is the largest data center conference in Russia, and attracts a mix of internal data center facilities executives as well as ho...

  • Army Outlines Cloud Computing Strategy Army Outlines Cloud Computing Strategy

    The CIO of the Army has imposed a moratorium on server purchases across Army operations. The move is aimed at stopping the proliferation of single-purpose servers as the Army begins consolidating data centers and creating compute clouds in select data centers. A memo announcing the moratorium was...

  • Microsoft betting that India will lead the world in Cloud Computing Microsoft betting that India will lead the world in Cloud Computing

    NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corp sees India as the global hub for cloud computing, the concept of renting computing power that has taken the technology world by storm and in the words of the NYT, what Silicon Valley cannot seem to get its head out of. “India will not only see a surge in cloud computin...

  • Google prepares the Government Cloud Google prepares the Government Cloud

    Google has submitted final materials to get its cloud computing services certified for use by federal agencies, and is nearing release of its government-specific cloud, a top Google executive said Wednesday. While Google Enterprise president Dave Girouard admitted in an interview after his keynot...

  • Federal CIO Says Cloud Standards Needed For Government Adoption Federal CIO Says Cloud Standards Needed For Government Adoption

    The nation's top technology chief called for standards around security, interoperability and data portability before the U.S. government can fully embrace cloud computing. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, speaking Thursday at a Washington D.C. cloud computing workshop, said that for the cloud to truly t...

  • Government IT advisor says privacy, security different for cloud Government IT advisor says privacy, security different for cloud

    Interesting article about the government's view on cloud computing... The government may have to make sacrifices in such treasured concepts as privacy and sovereignty, so that public sector organisations can take advantage of the “convenience” of the cloud, says a Department of Internal Affai...

  • Air Force to establish cloud computing research center of excellence Air Force to establish cloud computing research center of excellence

    U.S. Air Force researchers want to establish a research center of excellence in assured cloud computing, and they are looking to partner with a college or university to host and collaborate in assured cloud computing research. The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y...

  • Recovery.gov Moved To Amazon Cloud Recovery.gov Moved To Amazon Cloud

    The federal government has moved Recovery.gov, the Web site people can use to track spending under last year's $787 million economic stimulus package, to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board announced Thursday. The...

  • Cloud Computing Expert Becomes Defense Information Systems Agency's CIO Cloud Computing Expert Becomes Defense Information Systems Agency’s CIO

    A Defense Information Systems Agency's cloud computing expert, Henry Sienkiewicz, is the agency's new chief information officer. Sienkiewicz had been serving as the technical program director for the DISA's Computing Services Directorate and replaces Roberta Stempfley, who left the agency last mo...