Cloud Computing

OMB’s draft cloud smart strategy is one of several ongoing efforts across the government to help agencies deliver services and modernize systems more quickly.

House appropriators want to prevent the Pentagon from spending money to information to the JEDI Cloud contract until it meets several conditions.

This program will provide a progress report on secure cloud computing in government.

DISA releases a request for information to industry for a government owned, contractor operated approach to back-office IT services and network consolidation and optimization.

In today’s Federal Newscast, after the Veterans Affairs Department second attempt at firing the director of its DC facility, VA’s case against Brian Hawkins is reportedly falling apart.

Federal News Network and Iron Bow assembled a panel of federal experts to discuss these issues and gain a sense of how the government is approaching them.

Emily Miller, director of National Security and Critical Infrastructure Programs at Mocana, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss IoT security and why device security and supply chain management are especially important in the federal government.

HUD and Energy Department IT executives say they are applying lessons from failed proposals to new ones that they will submit to the TMF Board.

Oracle filed an amended complaint to the Court of Federal Claims that provides more details to what it alleges a deep conflict of interest in the development of the $10 billion JEDI cloud program.

Eric Jeanmarie, the former division chief for Identity, Records and National Security Delivery in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service and now the CEO of Finality, said by putting the E-Verify system in the cloud, the agency handled 15 times more cases than normal without any problems.

In today’s Federal Newscast, a new Senate bill looks to improve the Defense Department’s Mentor-Protégé Program, which expired last year.

The General Services Administration has plans to launch a version of the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) cloud contract aimed at civilian agencies.

What is user identification and why is it better than having to rely on failed usernames and passwords? Find out when Haywood Talcove, CEO of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk.

Chris Howard, the vice president of the U.S. public sector for Nutanix, said applications that benefit the most from cloud services are those that have spikes and troughs in their usage.