` I’ve been traveling a bit recently and wanted to share with you the top 10 questions I’m most frequently asked about right now by IT leadership and executive professionals evaluating cloud investments in 2012. 1. Should I build my own or rent one from someone else? Your teams are already doing it without your knowledge. [...]
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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 [...]
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People who write software write bugs. Anyone who has been a producer or consumer of technology knows this maxim to be true. Its how you deal with these exceptions through redundancy, fault vectors, recovery scenarios and managed customer experience that are important. Today, there are many organizations impacted by the outage of a contemporary public [...]
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Every previous generation intimates that its circumstances were more difficult than the present and for each there are storied and anecdotal ways of relating the harsher state of affairs: “when I was your age, I had to walk to school, both ways, up hill, in the snow, without any shoes” or “when I was your [...]
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I hope all my readers had an enjoyable holiday, and are gearing up for the New Year. 2010 has been a big year of progress towards the government cloud, so I thought a retrospective post highlighting the progress was very much in order. When I launched this blog I warned readers my “head was in [...]
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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. Last Thursday, Kundra announced a series of steps that the government is [...]
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Many government IT leaders and decision makers recognize that the future of their data centers is in the cloud, but many have some serious questions about cloud computing that they need answered. What kind of cloud is best for the agency? How do I articulate the relevance of cloud computing to our mission? How do [...]
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We’ve talked extensively on this blog about the benefits of cloud computing and why a foray into the cloud is the future for all organizations in both the private and public sector. However, for many public sector entities, from state and local governments to federal agencies, there are significant concerns about a move to the [...]
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It’s amazing how much press coverage there is now about the government moving to adopt cloud computing. For someone like me who has been intimately involved for over three years with this topic, it’s very heartening. A lot of the coverage I’ve seen seems to focus a lot on cost savings, security concerns or the [...]
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