It’s an unfortunate irony that many U.S. military personnel stationed overseas – nearly 300,000 in 2010 – have difficulty voting in elections back home. Fortunately, a new cloud computing service is helping overcome the tyranny of distance and help them exercise the right they defend for us all. LiveBallot - a cloud-based service that enables absen... read more...
Cloud computing is approaching a tipping point in government. A combination of decreasing budgets and government mandates has most agencies focused on data center consolidation, infrastructure cost savings and collaboration on intra and inter agency shared services. Security and privacy are often cited as the biggest barriers to cloud adoption, par... read more...
Imagine the Roman Empire without its aqueducts, or the American West without railroads. Societies and their governments have always employed technology to deliver essential services over vast regions, and today those connections are being made through IT. As federal agencies are being asked to accommodate growing service needs with smal... read more...
Picking the right cloud deployment for your federal agency is no picnic. Unique missions come with unique security and functionality requirements, which mean that some workloads may make more sense in the cloud than others. The reality is that government organizations are going to be operating a hybrid model of both cloud and on-premise IT re... read more...
As someone who has worked remotely for nearly 17 years, I’m always looking ways to improve remote collaboration – and cloud computing has truly changed the game. We’re now in an era where productivity isn’t limited by location or device; where geographically distributed workforces can work together in ways that weren’t even possible even 5 years ag... read more...
In May, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced a solicitation seeking cloud email, cloud office automation services and cloud records management services for the federal government, an effort that directly supports the Obama Administration’s “cloud first” policy for technology adoption. The solicitation runs the gamut of cloud of... read more...
Cloud computing has the potential to save agencies significant amounts of money, mostly because it allows organizations to pay for IT services as they go, and pay only for what they use. But underneath that relatively simple premise there are plenty of variables that make determining the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a cloud solution extremely c... read more...
As the birthplace of the tech industry and home to some of the world's largest technology companies, San Francisco is at the nexis of so many exciting opportunities and continues to foster entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the region. And today, the City by the Bay is moving its communications to the cloud. At a teleconference ... read more...
As government agencies deploy cloud solutions, they are trusting vendors to secure and protect their government data. That’s a big deal. As solution providers, it’s our responsibility to prove we’re up to the task, in part by being transparent about our security and data protection processes. Agencies have to be diligent about demanding speci... read more...
Will the transition to a new Federal CIO hinder federal cloud computing deployment?