Cloud Computing

HP Enterprise Services’ Michael Donovan on the difference between innovation and invention.

Most might assume the Defense Department’s chief information officer’s daily struggles differ significantly from other IT professionals’ obstacles. Everyone — except Teri Takai.

After recent leaks exposed the more clandestine side of the National Security Agency, the agency’s chief technology officer remained committed to open source, cloud-based software as the best way to consolidate NSA’s servers, save money and protect its systems from cyberthreats.

In Deloitte GovLab’s report, “Augmented government: Transforming government services through augmented reality,” Christian Doolin, Alan Holden and Vignon Zinsou discuss the potential augmented reality holds for federal agencies.

Roundup of the top 5 must-reads from the past week.

Former U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra sat down with FedScoop Radio on Wednesday to discuss the latest in his career, the emergence of cloud computing in governments around the world and his outlook on the future of computing.

Amazon Web Services became the first vendor to receive agency authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program when the Health and Human Services Department granted the company two ATOs.

It is hard to tell whether federal data center consolidation efforts are actually saving taxpayers money. Why? To start, no one is tracking agency progress in closing data centers against the cost-savings goal, according to congressional lawmakers.

Gen. Keith Alexander reiterated his view that the federal government’s network architecture is not defensible against cyber-attacks, but added it can be if rebuilt using the latest cloud-computing technologies.

FedScoop’s 4th Annual Tech Shoot-Out, held May 7, 2013, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., brought together government and industry IT leaders to “shoot it out” over the biggest questions related to federal cloud computing, cybersecurity and big data.

I’m often asked why cloud computing is seen as transformational. We readily acknowledge that the move from mainframe to client/server, the proliferation of personal computing, and the explosive growth of the Internet have fundamentally changed the way we interact with IT. In my opinion, the cloud has already affected a change of this magnitude, but many private and public sector organizations have been slow to understand its impact on their enterprise.

A look at the latest news regarding FedRAMP.

The federal information technology budget has remained effectively flat the past four years while government spending continues to be cut in different areas shows the Obama administration’s belief in the power of technology to be transformative.

The Defense Information Systems Agency recently achieved initial operating capability for its cloud brokerage system that will help the Defense Department and its components secure cloud-computing capabilities, the agency announced Tuesday.

Adrian Gardner, chief information officer at NASA Goddard, discusses what he’s working on in this interview with FedScoopTV.

Michelle Rudnicki, vice president of cloud computing and growth initiatives at IBM Federal, discusses modular development, cloud computing and government agility in this interview with FedScoopTV.

The U.S. Navy is moving forward with cloud computing and will not wait for the Defense Information Systems Agency to finish developing the Department of Defense’s Enterprise Cloud Service Broker platform.

Kathy Conrad, principal deputy associate administrator for the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies at the U.S. General Services Administration, discusses what she’s working on with FedScoopTV.

Steve Kenniston, global storage efficiency evangelist for IBM, discusses data, virtualization and cloud computing in this interview with FedScoopTV.

Theresa Grafenstine, the inspector general at the U.S. House of Representatives, is responsible for planning and leading independent, nonpartisan audits, advisories and investigations of the financial and administrative functions of the House, many of which deal with information technology.