Steve Kelman the professor of public management at Harvard University\'s Kennedy School of Government and a former administrator at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss how federal managers can ally their anxieties about cloud computing procurement.
The Defense Department chief information officer needs more clout when it comes to implementing cloud computing, according to an advisory committee consisting of industry executives.
The agency moved 25,000 employees to Google apps for email and collaboration in the cloud. CIO Joe Klimavicz said GSA\'s experience was crucial in making their transition go on time and on budget.
Tony Montemarano, the director of strategic planning and information at DISA, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss DISA\'s efforts in enterprise IT.
Richard Spires said the Homeland Security Department has more than 130 human resources systems and that\'s too many. He said an intra agency group recently completed a segment architecture of HR technology to figure out where they can consolidate systems and find savings. January 26, 2012
Joe Brown, president and co-founder of Accelera Solutions, an IT contracting company focused on virtualization, joined Industry Chatter with Francis Rose to discuss virtualization.
New guidance puts the onus on your agency to secure its presence in the public cloud.
The Defense Information Systems Agency created a Defense-wide directory of email addresses in support of their enterprise email system. But the real value in the listing of every military and civilian employee, contractor and retiree email address may be in securing information in a new way through the use of access based identity management. NIST is testing how to best use secure identity cards in the cloud.
New guidance on public cloud computing puts the emphasis on the consumer in protecting privacy and security.
Under the five-year, $20.7 million contract, CGI will provide public-cloud hosting and transition services.
The federal CIO said he\'s not concerned that the administration\'s cloud initiative will fall victim to the same types of roadblocks lawmakers set out for e-government seven years ago. VanRoekel said members of Congress need data on the value cloud computing brings. He also said vendor management organizations and mobile computing are among his short term priorities.
DoD dollars are coming down, and cyber threats are rising. The Defense Information Systems Agency says the enterprise services it\'s trying to build for the entire military are one answer to both problems.
Host John Gilroy will talk cloud computing with David Blankenhorn, the chief cloud technologist at DLT Solutions. January 17, 2012
Kay Sears, president of Intelsat General Corporation, will talk about how the federal communications marketplace is changing. January 17, 2012
More than half of the CIOs and deputy CIOs who responded to an exclusive online Federal News Radio survey about their 2012 priorities said the recent Office of Management and Budget memo giving them oversight over commodity IT spending either will improve how they manage IT spending or codifies their existing authorities. More than two-thirds of the respondents said their agency\'s senior decision-makers value their input and 80 percent said those same leaders understand the value information technology brings to the mission.