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Comment on Why Amazon pulled the cloud out from under WikiLeaks by griffithinsider

griffithinsider — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:57:49 +0000

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Comment on How you can go cloud and retain total control… by Get the most out of the cloud with bandwidth acceleration « GovCloudTalk

Get the most out of the cloud with bandwidth acceleration « GovCloudTalk — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:34:59 +0000

[...] a previous post on GovCloudTalk, we discussed the steps that government agencies can take towards embracing cloud [...]

Comment on White House dives into IT savings “cloud first” by Is the new government cloud directive a red flag for IT workers? « GovCloudTalk

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:29:20 +0000

[...] As we’ve discussed in the past, Obama’s technology team, including Vivek Kundra, the country’s CIO, is looking for ways in which the federal government can improve its IT acquisition process and adopt technologies that can make the government operate more effectively and efficiently. [...]

Comment on Where we’re falling down: the administration’s plans to fix government IT by Is the new government cloud directive a red flag for IT workers? « GovCloudTalk

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:29:17 +0000

[...] Vivek Kundra, the country’s CIO, is looking for ways in which the federal government can improve its IT acquisition process and adopt technologies that can make the government operate more effectively and [...]

Comment on American innovation takes another one on the chin by Ron

Ron — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:28:27 +0000

Outside the R&D tax credit (which I’m assuming will be extended), there is another bill making rounds for signing before the end of the year giving companies a bonus tax credit for any capital equipment purchased before the end of CY2010. Does anyone know if Cloud services (IaaS, SaaS or PaaS) classify as a purchase that would fall under the capital equipment tax credit?

Comment on American innovation takes another one on the chin by Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:22:49 +0000

Unfortunately, I have to agree with most of your points, education being one of the more salient points, as the US slides to the middle of the pack in the latest OECD standings on education results.

One error however – The inventor of the telephone is largely credited to Alexander Graham Bell who was a Canadian. Mr. Bell (also the founder of Bell Canada) was born in Scotland in 1847 and emigrated to Canada in 1870, eventually settling near Brantfor, Ontario. He eventually died on Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada. He did register the patent for the telephone with the US Patent office however

Americans often credit famous Canadian as Americans (i.e. Neil Young, Avril Lavigne, Shania Twain, Brian Adams, Barenaked Ladies and the inventor of the telephone), but that’s OK… we take it as a comliment

Comment on Why Amazon pulled the cloud out from under WikiLeaks by Counting the WikiLeaks Story Lines « Work, Wine and Wheels

Counting the WikiLeaks Story Lines « Work, Wine and Wheels — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:05:15 +0000

[...] Many have questioned the obligations of cloud computing companies in the wake of Amazon dumping WikiLeaks as a customer, under pressure from the U.S. government. Here’s the New York Times on that angle, and here’s the view from a cloud computing blog focused on the federal market. [...]

Comment on Rogue applications not such rogues anymore… by John Brown

John Brown — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:22:11 +0000

As a Information System Security Officer I have seen first hand these rogue application. I follow your rational for their existence but to allow anyone in the field to develop application without oversight, and that is what rogue means, is a security nightmare. I have seen where PII information was collected in a rogue application, notice was not given to the employees their was being collected, risk analysis and privacy impact analysis were not performed leaving the agency at risk. Allowing anyone to building applications in the cloud just to allow for rapid deployment without adhering to standards causes more problems than it solves.

Cloud computing is being presented as the big panacea that will cure all IT ills; but I caution… Let the buyer beware. It is up to the data owner to protect his data and not the cloud utility provider.

Comment on White House dives into IT savings “cloud first” by Where we’re falling down: the administration’s plans to fix government IT « GovCloudTalk

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:30:08 +0000

[...] my last post, I discussed a speech given by Jeffrey Zients, the deputy director of the Office of Management and [...]

Comment on Why service providers are good for federal end users by White House dives into IT savings “cloud first” « GovCloudTalk

White House dives into IT savings “cloud first” « GovCloudTalk — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:50:56 +0000

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