Cloud Computing

• Fast Break: BBG Joining Gov Technology Elite

  

  In the corner of his office, André Mendes has a framed portrait of some of the greatest players in Los Angeles Laker history, a fitting image considering he’s running the Broadcasting Board of Governors technology team like Magic Johnson leading the fast break.

• GSA Outlines FedRAMP Implementation Timeline

  

  The General Services Administration is taking a phased and calibrated approach to implementing FedRAMP over the next two years, said Dave McClure.

• Interior Releases New Cloud Email RFP

  

  The Department of the Interior released a request for proposal on Tuesday for a new cloud-based email and collaboration service that aims to acquire more than 90,000 email mailboxes and migrate users from seven email systems into one.

• GSA Releases FedRAMP Concept of Operations

  

  The General Services Administration Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies released the FedRAMP concept of operations document on Tuesday that describes al the services that will be available at the program’s initial operating capability targeted for June 2012.

• DHS Reports on Data Center Consolidation Efforts

  

  The Department of Homeland Security consolidated nine of its 43 primary legacy data center sites with another 12 planned by the end of 2012, said Chief Information Officer Richard Spires in a blog post on CIO.gov.

• NIST Finalizes Cloud Security Publication

  

  The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finalized Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing (NIST Special Publication 800-144) that provides an overview of the security and privacy challenges facing cloud computing.

• Labor DCIO: Agency Cloud Migration Starts February

  

  We sat down with Department of Labor Deputy CIO Thomas Wiesner who talks about the agency’s IT modernization and the path to a cloud-based email system.

• MorningScoop: Fixing the Monument, FedRAMP and the Army Reset Report

  

  Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein chips in to fix the Washington Monument, a FedRAMP meeting for agencies and the Army releases a strategic reset report.

• HP U.S. Public Sector Chief Technologist on the Value of Cloud Computing in Government (VIDEO)

  

  Tom Houston, Chief Technologist for HP’s U.S. Public Sector, discusses the value of cloud computing and government with FedScoopTV.

• Open Source and Transparency

  

  DLT Solutions Chief Cloud Technologist David Blankenhorn says open source helps facilitate government transparency in an interview with FedScoopTV.

• FedRAMP Security Controls Released

  

  The General Services Administration released the baseline security controls that federal agencies and cloud service providers must implement within a cloud computing environment to satisfy FedRAMP requirements.

• Army Puts Enterprise Email Migration on Hold

  

  The Army has paused its migration to enterprise email to conform with new acquisition rules put in place by the National Defense Authorization Act that was signed into law December 31.