William Jackson, Government Computer News, Friday, September 30, 2011
Cloud computing is becoming a fact of life as agencies are pressed to make IT infrastructures more flexible and efficient. Agencies can off-load much of the work and expense of acquiring and managing hardware, software and services under a variety of cloud models, but responsibility cannot be outsourced.
Andrea Di Maio, Computer Weekly, Friday, September 30, 2011
Cloud computing remains an important trend and, in the long run, will have a transformational impact on the way government organisations access and leverage IT. However, the path to the cloud is definitely slower and more tortuous than many wish to think.
Alice Lipowicz and Matthew Weigelt, Federal Computer Week, Tuesday, September 27, 2011
As the nation’s first federal CIO, Vivek Kundra brought a high-energy approach to the job and a wealth of fresh ideas to promote innovation and efficiency. He won support, sparked conversation and elbowed the status quo out of the way a few times. But it remains to be seen whether his initiatives have staying power now that he has left the government.
Charles Buck, CloudTweaks , Friday, September 23, 2011
Microsoft raised some eyebrows when Corporate VP Brad Anderson boldly proclaimed that, “Virtualizations is not cloud computing.” While this statement garnered a lot of buzz due to its timing – Anderson said this during the VMWorld annual event – that doesn’t make this statement any less true.
Rutrell Yasin, Government Computer News, Thursday, September 22, 2011
Congress can put its weight behind standards efforts, acquisition policies and laws that promote trust to move cloud computing forward, representatives from industry and government told members of the House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation at a hearing in Washington.
Christina Torode, IT Knowledge Exchange TotalCIO blog, Thursday, September 22, 2011
One in five of the companies responding to a Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) survey of cloud trends said they are moving some or all of their outsourced cloud systems back on-premises.
Elizabeth Montalbano, InformationWeek, Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The federal government's adoption of cloud computing is not merely critical to technology innovation, but also is crucial to ensure that the United States can remain economically competitive across the globe, technology experts said Wednesday.
Richard W. Walker, SearchSecurity.com, Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Under pressure to move to cloud computing by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), yet harboring intractable concerns about protecting sensitive data, many federal agency managers are opting for private clouds, which they consider more secure than public cloud environments.