Modernization
Which Vendor is the Big Cloud Winner?
IBM banked $2.7 billion in cloud dollars in the last five years.
Modernization
FedRAMP Ready? GSA Releases Template to Figure It Out
Cloud service providers can assess whether they're ready for FedRAMP authorization with a new template.
Modernization
Part of the Federal Cloud That Stopped Growing
Though the market came to include calendar management, customer relationship management and internal and external websites, it declined 16 percent to $539 million in fiscal 2015.
Modernization
NARA Official: Hardest Part of Cloud Transition is Verifying Security
Convincing shareholders that data stored offsite is still secure is a challenge, Marlon Andrews said.
Digital Government
Why Didn't E-Gov Live Up to Its Promise?
Technology was supposed to transform government 15 years ago; an “era of electronic government” was poised to make government faster, smaller, digitized and increasingly transparent.
Ideas
4 Steps to Consider When Creating a Cloud Strategy in 2016
To become a source of competitive advantage, federal IT administrators implementing a cloud strategy should consider the following steps.
Modernization
FedRAMP’s Influence Grows Outside the Beltway
Compliance with the cloud-vetting regime even helped one U.S. tech firm win a contract with the Canadian government.
Ideas
New OMB Data Center Effort Can Help Break Agency Silos
The federal government faces many of the same challenges experienced in the commercial sector when it comes to implementing "change."
Emerging Tech
Q&A with Matt Goodrich: How FedRAMP Gives Customers What They Want
GSA is building very technical policies based on what its customers want, not developing policies and forcing its customers to comply with them.
Modernization
Officials Plan ‘Major Changes’ to Speed Up FedRAMP Cloud-Vetting
The changes also focus on increasing transparency and promoting FedRAMP reuse.
Emerging Tech
Air Force CTO: We Don’t Want to Manage IT Anymore
Faced with an IT workforce shortage, the Air Force CTO said it makes more sense to outsource the work to industry entities than to continue training a revolving door of airmen.
Modernization
Does Pentagon Need a Narrow Definition of Cloud?
Ambiguity might actually be best when it comes to cloud -- at least for now, says DISA CTO.
Ideas
3 Government Tech Trends to Watch in 2016
As we ring in 2016, we will see a significant acceleration within three key technologies as the public sector fundamentally transforms its services to meet the needs of 21st-century population.
Ideas
5 Cyber Risk Trends for 2016
These are the top themes CIOs and CISOs should have on their radar in the new year.
Modernization
The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge
The data centers that support the Internet use a huge amount of energy.
Modernization
Trade Group: Government Needs to Ramp Up Cloud Adoption
A recent Professional Services Council survey found only 8 percent of federal CIOs progressed as much as they wanted to with cloud-based technology.
Emerging Tech
Government’s First Open Source PaaS Service Comes to Market
PaaS puts more security onus on cloud services providers than IaaS offerings do -- and that’s attractive for government customers who often lack information security expertise or have reduced budgets.
Modernization
If the Intelligence Community Can Do Cloud, Why Can’t The Rest of Government?
Many agencies today are still using cloud computing similar to 2010, one official says.
Modernization
Renewable Energy Lab Begins Moving More Sensitive Data to the Cloud
In 2009 NREL set out in earnest to open up and share its data through an application that became known as OpenEI.
Emerging Tech