Who will supply your cloud?

1 pipe.  Many uses.   One of the questions that CIO’s, IT leadership and Accreditation Authorities are dealing with is how to blend the economic benefits of cloud infrastructures with both the real and perceived security challenges presented by this new Service Delivery method. When faced with inflection points like this I’ve often found that [...]

Tell the federal government how it can fix cloud accreditation!

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 [...]

The view from the GEOINT 2010 Symposium floor

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 [...]

Federal cloud accrediting has a need…a need for speed

We’ve talked multiple times on this blog about the incredible cost savings that government organizations and agencies could realize by embracing cloud computing. In light of our nation’s ongoing financial situation, saddled with debt and looking everywhere for costs to cut, the time to implement cloud infrastructures across the government and consolidate existing datacenters is [...]

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