White House dives into IT savings “cloud first”

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Tim Harder

Facing an estimated federal deficit of $1.3 trillion dollars, the Obama Administration has been looking to find ways to trim budgets and reduce government spending however possible. The situation has gotten so bad, that this week the president asked for a federal employee pay freeze. This would save $2 billion for the remainder of this [...]

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Rogue applications not such rogues anymore…

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Tim Harder

In a recent column that he penned for Government Computer News, Michael Daconta, the chief technology officer at Accelerated Information Management and former metadata program manager at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed “rogue applications” being developed on Microsoft Access within government agency divisions. He also discussed the headache that they’ve become for the enterprise [...]

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Tell the federal government how it can fix cloud accreditation!

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Tim Harder

Okay, I know I’ve written about the accreditation process for cloud computing solutions quite frequently in the last few weeks. It’s just been a hot topic in light of the recent NIST event and all of the talk around streamlining cloud accreditation via FedRAMP. But this is the last time I’m going to write about [...]

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Making “Big Data” more manageable

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Tim Harder

In a recent post we discussed how datacenters are being inundated with data due to a proliferation of handheld devices, SaaS applications, networked sensors and other input devices. The end result of this glut of data being ingested by datacenters is a situation where data capture, storage, searching, sharing, analyzing, and visualizing are awkward and [...]

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Why service providers are good for federal end users

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Tim Harder

As we’ve discussed in previous posts here at GovCloudTalk, there are many different reasons why government agencies and organizations would want to embrace cloud computing. There are also many different types of cloud architectures that can help each agency overcome the hang-ups and challenges that are keeping them from embracing the cloud. For example, many [...]

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NIST forum reviews government progress towards cloud adoption

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Tim Harder

In May, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted the first Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop to respond to the Federal CIO’s request that it lead federal efforts on standards for data portability, cloud interoperability, and security. The workshop was intended to initiate engagement with industry to accelerate the development of cloud standards [...]

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The view from the GEOINT 2010 Symposium floor

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Tim Harder

As I discussed in a previous post, the EMC team and I are currently at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center‎ in New Orleans for this year’s GEOINT Symposium. The GEOINT 2010 Symposium is billed as the preeminent geospatial intelligence event for the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities and it shows. There are more [...]

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