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“Cash for Clunkers” Should Have Used the Cloud!
Rich Bruklis wrote an excellent essy on how the government missed a perfect opportunity to use cloud computing. In “Cloud Opportunity Missed” he writes: “It appears that the voucher system…
US Navy Experiments With Secure Cloud Computing
This week in San Diego, CA the US Navy held the initial planning conference for Trident Warrior ’10. The Trident Warrior series is the premier annual FORCEnet Sea Trial Event…
GSA To Present On Cloud Initiative at NCOIC Plenary
A General Services Administration (GSA) representative is now scheduled to provide a briefing on the agency’s cloud computing initiative during a “Best Practices for Cloud Initiatives using Storefronts” session on…
FAA CIO Focuses on Cybersecurity
During this week Federal Executive Forum, FAA CIO Dave Bowen mentioned protection against software vulnerabilities, wireless intrusion and website vulnerabilities as his top cybersecurity priorities. As the Assistant Administrator for…
DHS Asst. Secretary Addresses Cybersecurity Priorities
Greg Schaffer, Assistant Secretary for CyberSecurity & Communications for the US Department of Homeland Security, sees Trusted Internet Connections, EINSTEIN, and front line defense of the nation’s networks as top…
US DoD Chief Security Officer on Cybersecurity Priorities
In a Federal Executive Forum interview, Robert Lentz, Chief Security Officer for the US Department of Defense, highlighted the departments cybersecurity priorities. Mr. Lentz is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of…
Twitter Under Denial of Service Attack
Multiple sources are reporting that Twitter continues to be under a denial of service attack. Some are speculating that this represents the power of a coordinated bot network attack. For…
NCOIC Holding Full Day Cloud Computing Session
The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) will be holding a one-day cloud computing session during its plenary meetings, 21-25 September at the Fair Lakes Hyatt in Fairfax, VA. A…
Sevatec a New Player in the Federal Cloud Computing Market
Just in time for the new Federal Cloud Computing Storefront, Sevatec, Inc. is announcing the development of a toolkit to help federal agencies transform their enterprise architectures to cloud computing…
GSA Releases Cloud Computing RFQ
Following through on a much anticipated action, GSA released their Cloud Computing Request For Quotation (RFQ) today. Cloud computing is a major part of President Obama’s reform effort and this…
- Henry Sienkiewcz-Technical Program Director, Computer Services, Defense Information Systems Agency
- Mr. Ronald Bechtold-Army Architecture Integration Center, at Headquarters, Department of the Army, Chief Information Office/G6
- Curt Aubley-Technology Officer CTO Operations & Next Generation Solutions, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services
- Dale Wickizer-Chief Technology Officer-Public Sector, NetApp, Inc.
- Aileen Black- Vice President of Public Sector, VMware Inc.
- Cloud Computing has provided an inflection point in government information technology that is changing the paradigm for delivering services
- The biggest challenge to adopting cloud computing is in re-educating the workplace.
- The reduction is cost and increase in efficiency have proven to be key to the success of cloud computing
- DISA has shown that a STIG’ed or Non-STIG’ed, Windows or LAMPs, test and evaluation environment can be provisioned in the DoD in 24 hours. Unfortunately, 23 of those hours involves moving the money.
- A new DISA project, DISA Extended Edge Presence (DEEP), has been launched in order to quickly deliver applications and content to “dis-enfranchised” DoD users
- Cloud computing allows for end-to-end infrastructure visibility, providing an ability to fight through a cyber attack.
- DISA is developing a host-tenant model for applications and application certifications. Using this model, tenant application in “DISA decks” will inherit the infrastructure certification. Using this model, the application developer will only be responsible for accrediting the application stack.
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Cloud Computing
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- Route1 Announces Q2 2019 Financial Results
- CPUcoin Expands CPU/GPU Power Sharing with Cudo Ventures Enterprise Network Partnership
- ChannelAdvisor to Present at the D.A. Davidson 18th Annual Technology Conference
Cybersecurity
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- Atos delivers Quantum-Learning-as-a-Service to Xofia to enable artificial intelligence solutions
- New Ares IoT Botnet discovered on Android OS based Set-Top Boxes