Cloud Computing
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President Barack Obama released his FY 2012 budget proposal yesterday. In it, he reiterates his administration’s goal to move towards a cloud-first policy as a way to create efficiencies in the federal government and, in turn, save money. “By consolidating data cenÂters and leveraging cloud computing the Federal Government will reduce the Nation’s data center [...]
February 15, 2011 -
Input\'s Angie Petty outlines some of the IT opportunities for federal contractors.
February 14, 2011 -
NIST cloud guidelines address security, privacy concerns We told you last week about the two draft cloud documents NIST published. This week, Federal News Radio spoke with NIST computer scientists Lee Badger and Tim Grance about those docs. Federal News Radio host Chris Dorobek also discussed how agencies can take advantage of the costs and [...]
February 13, 2011 -
Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra is one of the keynote speakers at this year’s Cloud Security Alliance Summit. Kundra is expected to discuss the federal government’s strategy for moving to the cloud. The event is being held Monday, February 14 in San Francisco, California. According to the group’s website, several research projects involving cloud [...]
February 13, 2011 -
In our continuing quest to find out how agencies are currently using the cloud and how they plan to use it in the future, Federal News Radio caught up with Chris Neidermayer, deputy chief information officer for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In light of the Office of Management and Budget’s cloud-first policy, [...]
February 08, 2011 -
NIST\'s Lee Badger and Tim Grance explain how the public can comment on two draft documents offering guidelines for public cloud use.
February 08, 2011 -
The public has until Feb. 28 to comment on two draft documents on cloud computing for the government.
February 08, 2011 -
The Army has announced that it will start moving individual e-mail accounts to a cloud-based enterprise e-mail service by the middle of this month.
February 07, 2011 -
Federal News Radio spoke with multiple guests this week about cloud computing. Read the full stories and hear the interviews by clicking on the headline links below. HP offers cloud computing consulting The administration’s cloud-first policy has put agencies in a spot where they need to figure out what can be moved to the cloud and [...]
February 06, 2011 -
The National Cancer Institute is using cloud computing to help advance breast cancer research. The agency worked with the Susan Love Research Foundation to start the Health of Women Study. The study aims to collect information on women across the U.S. (anyone can sign up) and then analyze it to understand the cause of the [...]
February 03, 2011 -
HP introduces Government Cloud Consulting Services to help government agencies comply with OMB\'s \"cloud-first\" policy. We get details from HP\'s Jeff Bergeron
February 03, 2011 -
From “Dramatic Changes Coming in Endpoint Security” by Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates: There is a significant change coming to endpoint security, with dramatic implications for how end users will be protected and what…
February 02, 2011 -
Two draft documents released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology define and set guidelines for government cloud computing.
February 02, 2011 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology published two draft documents on cloud computing today. The first offers NIST’s definition of cloud computing and the second offers guidelines on security and privacy in cloud computing. Both documents are open for public comment through February 28, 2011. NIST also announced the launch of a new Cloud [...]
February 02, 2011 -
Wow. So much news about cloud, so little time. Good thing we have this blog, right? Federal News Radio was busy covering news about cloud computing this week. We’ve gathered all of those stories here for easy access. Army weeks away from enterprise e-mail rollout The Army will begin migrating employees to its new cloud-based [...]
January 30, 2011
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