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Cloud Computing
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The Army resumed its migration of users to its new cloud email system on Tuesday. Other enterprise services will follow behind it, including an enterprise version of Microsoft Sharepoint, which will mostly displace the Army Knowledge Online web portal, officials said.
August 17, 2011 -
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Vivek Kundra ends his tenure as the federal chief information officer Aug. 12. He was the driving force behind moving agencies to cloud computing, consolidating data centers and laying down the foundation to reform information technology. But Kundra\'s biggest impact may be less about specific technologies, but reminding the government that time and process are not major barriers. August 11, 2011
August 11, 2011 -
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The Department of Homeland Security\'s seventh annual conference on cybersecurity is underway. Lee Rock, the acting director of US-CERT is slated to speak.
August 10, 2011 -
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The Army will begin lifting its finger off of the pause button for enterprise email within the next few days, the service\'s chief information officer said.
August 10, 2011 -
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Taha Kass-Hout, the program manager for BioSense, a CDC program, joined the Federal Drive to discuss how the program is evolving and why it recently decided to move to a cloud platform.
August 09, 2011 -
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The Department of the Navy has issued two requests for information from industry, one on a public-private data center partnership model; another on commercial collaboration software as a service. The department must cut its IT business system spending by 25 percent.
August 03, 2011 -
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Jerry Edgerton, president of federal sales at Blue Ridge Networks, joins host John Gilroy to talk about what his company is doing to help agencies transition into cloud computing. August 2, 2011
August 02, 2011 -
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The General Services Administration has become the first federal agency to move its entire workforce to a cloud-based email product. GSA said it moved all 17,000 of its users all at one time, but it couldn\'t have pulled off the transition without months of planning, training and preparation.
July 28, 2011 -
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A panel of industry representatives has laid out a roadmap for revising the practices agencies use to purchase cloud computing services. The group also recommends new transparency efforts aimed at getting customers to trust cloud computing. The report aims to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing.
July 26, 2011 -
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Host Mark Amtower will talk debt crisis, cloud computing and other issues with Federal News Radio\'s Francis Rose. July 25, 2011(Encore presentation August 15, 2011)
July 25, 2011 -
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Security gaps still need to be patched for mobile and cloud computing to take off, according to GSA\'s David McClure.
July 21, 2011 -
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The goal is for independent third party companies to affirm commercial cloud providers meet the FedRAMP cybersecurity requirements. The agencies will model its approach after the one used to accredit vendors to provide products and services under HSPD-12. FedRAMP will not be ready until the fall.
July 21, 2011 -
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Agencies have stepped up the pace of their data center consolidation efforts, leading to predicted data center closures numbering well above what the Office of Management and Budget predicted earlier this year.
July 21, 2011
