Cloud Computing
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Crowell & Moring hosted a webinar for government contractors on what to expect this year, from election predictions to intellectual property rights.
January 18, 2016 -
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) received specific funding for the first year and is conducting pilots try to improve the approval process of cloud service providers.
January 18, 2016 -
Zach Goldstein, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s chief information officer, said the agency will expand the N-Wave network to offer mission areas access to the 100-gigabyte network in the coming year.
January 15, 2016 -
Similar to the way the HealthCare.gov debacle sparked reforms to technology management, the Office of Personnel Management data breach is fueling a deep discussion around cloud computing. So much so in fact, a two year effort to develop a bill to make it easier for agencies to migrate to the cloud is on track to be introduced in another six weeks. In the latest installment of his weekly Reporter's Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller writes about the cloud bill and why it has good chance of becoming law.
January 12, 2016 -
The Senate IT working group is circulating a discussion draft of a cloud bill to improve FedRAMP and create a new fund at GSA to help pay for cloud transitions.
January 11, 2016 -
The 4th quarter update on Performance.gov details progress and plans for 2016.
January 11, 2016 -
The most read reporter's notebooks in 2015 had a variety of topics, but cybersecurity and personnel changes seemed to be most popular.
January 11, 2016 -
Adriane Burton, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s chief information officer, said she is using data analytics tools to better understand the agency’s business needs.
January 08, 2016 -
Cloud, cybersecurity and agile development —those are what federal chief information officers and their staffs will be dealing with in 2016. But all three fronts are changing. The Professional Services Council recently completed research interviews on the 2016 federal IT trends. Heading the effort was Kim Pack, the vice president of business capture specialists Wolf Den Associates. She told Federal Drive with Tom Temin how the whole forecast is put together.
January 07, 2016 -
The Army has issued a request for information, asking cloud vendors to describe their capabilities in more than 30 separate areas that could help it move its applications from government data centers to modern commercial hosting environments.
January 06, 2016 -
A DoD Inspector General report found the department's cloud policy may have monetary and cybersecurity risks.
December 30, 2015 Jason McNutt and Chris Miller with Applied Information Sciences, join host John Gilroy to discuss some of the objectives of the General Services Administration's 18F program and the concepts behind this innovation. December 22, 2015
December 17, 2015-
If cloud computing is so great, how come federal agencies don't do more of it? The White House has been pushing cloud for nearly a decade. Turns out, CIOs still face a lot of challenges to cloud usage. The Professional Services Council, in a new report, spells them out together with some advice and examples of cloud success. Federal Drive with Tom Temin discussed all of this with the PSC's Executive Vice President Dave Wennergren.
December 17, 2015 -
The Food and Drug Administration can process data more quickly thanks to an infrastructure-as-a-service platform. NIH is reducing the time it takes to perform an MRI because of high-performance computing services in the cloud.
December 16, 2015 Cristina Miller and Adam Horvath with Acumen Solutions join host John Gilroy to discuss how their company can help federal agencies with their transition to the cloud. December 15, 2015
December 14, 2015
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