Agencies are pursuing a handful of major initiatives to continue modernizing the IT landscape in the federal government. One of the Administration’s pushes within their Digital Government Strategy is directing agencies to look toward cloud solutions to create savings and enhance service delivery. The Cloud First Policy would require agencies to default to cloud-based solutionsRead… Read more »
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Civic Cloud – Moving Citizen Engagement to the Cloud
“Citizen engagement means a lot more than fixing potholes,” said Maury Blackman. Blackman is the CEO of Accela. He told Chris Dorobek on the DorobekINSIDER program that from his standpoint citizen engagement falls into three distinct areas. Three Areas of Citizen Engagement Public Infrastructure Management: Taking care of what is in the city, potholes, downedRead… Read more »
Browsers pose the greatest threat to enterprise, Microsoft reports, Fed Budget Makes Room for Cloud, Cybersecurity Upgrades and more
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Browsers pose the greatest threat to enterprise, Microsoft reports – “Microsoft’s latest security report has found that Web-based attacks pose the greatest threat to companies, giving credence to efforts to develop browser alternatives to accessing the Internet.” The most recent “SecurityRead… Read more »
The Big Data World Comes to DC 7 May 2013: Reduce risk in your Big Data deployments with the Cloudera Sessions
By very popular demand, the Big Data briefing team that packs events coast to coast is returning to DC for a day of sessions that will provide lessons learned from real-world deployments of Big Data solutions. Come hear from engineers who contribute code to the open source projects around Hadoop, the technologists who deliver realRead… Read more »
Cumulogic: A Team of former Sun Microsystems employees and a dynamic team of engineers passionate about cloud computing
I’ve been watching the incredible team of mission-focused technologists as form Cumulogic since my friend Bill Vass alerted me to their virtuous computing approaches in early 2011. Since then they have provided many updates on their website of their approach, partners, intent and technology. And technical marketing champion Laura Ventura of Cumulogic has supported myRead… Read more »
Navy CIO: commercial clouds cheaper, FISMA Reform Passes House on 416-0 Vote and more
Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Report: US Smart Grid Cybersecurity Spending to Reach $7.25B by 2020 – a recent study by research firm Zpryme forecasts annual spending to reach $7.25B in 2020. The focus of this money will be on ICS and SCADA solutions. Via GreenTechMedia, more here. NavyRead… Read more »
Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage and Project Management Software
The demand for distributed data is increasing as companies are more and more spread across the world with the current globalization. And with the increase of cloud resources and tools offerings even smaller companies are starting to use such services once the prices have lowered. As many other domains project management is also embracing thisRead… Read more »
CloudCheckr : Amazon Complexity Challenges Many Users
A recently released infographic from CloudCheckr (http://cloudcheckr.com/) sheds quite a bit of light on the importance of expert advice when an enterprise decides to deploy to the cloud. When AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March, they took that opportunity to conduct an internal survey of their customers’ usage. CloudCheckr compared theRead… Read more »
The Army’s Command Post of the Future. First Army Unit deploying with a mobile network, Cisco and Cloud Computing
By Marcus Williams Today’s Cyber news we are tracking: The Army’s Command Post of the Future. First Army Unit deploying with a mobile network, Cisco and Cloud Computing The Army’s Command Post of the Future (CPOF) Leaders on the ground at the attack on Lybia last year used maps and images provided by the CommandRead… Read more »
Moving to the Cloud? What’s Your Biggest Worry?
Cloud based computing continues to be a hot topic in government. The DorobekINSIDER live recently discussed What’s The Status of Gov 2.0? with an expert panel. It seems that cloud solutions continue to be the driving force behind new government innovations. Michael Donovan is a Distinguished Technologist with the HP Enterprise Services Office of theRead… Read more »