After a RFI and two industry days, the agency is preparing one or more solicitations to move its technology backbone to the cloud. HUD also is taking advantage of the TechStat sessions to improve the oversight and management of its ongoing IT projects.
EyakTek receives the authority to operate under the infrastructure-as-a-service contract to offer three cloud services.
Shawn McCarthy is the research director at IDC Government Insights.
GSA, DoD, DHS still need at least another month to finalize the FedRAMP requirements. Agencies and vendors are anxiously waiting the FedRAMP process to speed up the move to cloud computing and save money. The CIO Council also is developing the top 20 cloud security considerations to help agencies mitigate risks.
Microsoft released a cloud version of its popular Office applications suite.
NOAA is going with Google Apps for agency-wide e-mail and collaboration platform for its 25,000 employees, contractors and associates working across the country and around the world. NOAA CIO Joseph Klimavicz explains the process.
Goutam Kundu, the agency\'s CIO, is focusing on reducing the number of applications, modernizing its systems and improving online customer service. June 23, 2011
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra\'s departure from government could mean a gray future for cloud computing in the federal government. Federal News Radio got the forecast from NextGov reporter Joseph Marks.
Luke McCormack, the chief information officer of the Homeland Security Department\'s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said ICE has not done a good job over the years in how they communicate their needs and requirements to industry. June 16, 2011(Encore presentation July 28, 2011)
A great story on cloud computing from Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller. Miller reports federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra sees financial systems and human resources systems as the next two big areas that could benefit from cloud computing. Kundra said the government currently runs more than 1,000 different financial and HR systems. “I envision [...]
One of government\'s biggest cloud believers details his latest move. Mark Forman, co-founder of Government Transaction Services joins In Depth with more on making the move to the cloud
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the largest federal agency to select Google\'s email system
After decades in federal government, Sonny Bhagowalia is moving to the state government to be the Aloha State\'s first full-time chief information officer.
Agencies might not be taking the cloud first policy to heart. Nathan Coutinho is an Enterprise, Server, Storage and Virtualization Solutions Manager at CDW
CIO Rosio Alvarez said she soon will release a RFP to move the lab\'s ERP system to the cloud. Berkeley already moved its email to the cloud.