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Army to resume moving email to the cloud March 17
Deputy CIO Mike Krieger said the Secretary of the Army certified the program as technically and financially sound.
Analysis: Shared-services strategy resembles SOA plan
Brand Niemann, the former senior enterprise architect and data scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the similarity between the new shared-services strategy and an older plan known as service-oriented architecture.
GSA creating cloud marketplace for federal services
The goal is for agencies to offer on a fee-for-service basis excess cloud capacity. GSA's Dave McClure said financial management, human resources, customer relationship management and geospatial services are some of the possible offerings.
Big data and open source software
Cloudera CEO Mike Olson joins host John Gilroy to talk about how his company can help you with big data.
February 14, 2012
NRC taking financial system to cloud
The agency hired CGI Federal to move its application from the Interior Department to the private cloud.
HRSA's building renovation gives IT push toward improvements
Cathy Flickinger said her biggest challenge is keeping the IT operations going while her bureau's building is upgraded. She has moved mission critical apps and websites to the cloud.
February 9, 2012
Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson on virtualization and the subscription model
Gunnar Hellekson, the chief technolgoy strategist for Red Hat's U.S. public sector group, joined Industry Chatter with Francis Rose to discuss virtualization and the subscription model for agency IT.
Oracle to pay $1.9B for Taleo, extends SAP rivalry
Oracle Corp. is escalating its rivalry with German business-software maker SAP AG with a $1.9 billion purchase of Taleo Corp., a company that helps businesses hire and manage their employees.
FedRAMP eases vendors' path to offer secure cloud services
Under the new concept of operations, the interagency board now is letting vendors submit their cloud services for approval without first having to have a contract. The document details three major areas of how the FedRAMP process will work. The program management office will release two other major documents in the coming months to further detail the cloud security process.
Getting help with your common cloud issues
Josh Stephens, vice president of Technology at J&J Solarwinds, joins host John Gilroy to talk about how his company can help you with common cloud issues.
February 7, 2012
Does cloud contracting have a FUD problem?
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.
Advisory board: DoD CIO needs more clout for cloud
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.
NOAA leans on the lessons of others to move to cloud
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.
DISA seeks unity from services in enterprise IT
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.
DHS's Spires defining future state of HR technology
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
Accelera Solutions' Joe Brown on virtualization
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.
Agencies responsible for security in public cloud, NIST says
New guidance puts the onus on your agency to secure its presence in the public cloud.
DISA using cloud to further cyber defenses
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.
NIST cloud guidance puts emphasis on user security
New guidance on public cloud computing puts the emphasis on the consumer in protecting privacy and security.
GSA hires CGI to take Data.gov, USA.gov, others to the cloud
Under the five-year, $20.7 million contract, CGI will provide public-cloud hosting and transition services.
