Technically News - 2/28
This week in Technically News: DHS Offers Incentive to Adopt Framework; Red Hat Answers Governments’ Open Source Questions; NetApp in the Cloud Age: CEO Tom Georgens Q&A; Symantec's Vision of Enterprise Security Rests Upon Collaboration, Sharing Data
Technically News - 2/14
This week in Technically News: NIST Releases Cybersecurity Framework; Who Bears Blame for Data-Center Consolidation Setbacks?; Cybersecurity Trends for 2014; The Outlook for Government IT Spending in 2014; DLT Solutions Offers Amazon Cloud Services to Texas Schools, Public Sector
Prevent “Cloud Spare”: Professional Services in the Cloud Era
Whenever I get the chance to talk with our sales divisions, I always like to weave in a statement that gets their attention. During a recent meeting to discuss Professional Services, I started by saying, “The products that you resell are worthless!” After a pause for effect, I added, “Unless the customer actually uses the product.” I now had their attention.
Technically News - 2/10
This week in Technically News: Senate Cybersecurity Report Finds Agencies Often Fail to Take Basic Preventive Measures; Does 3-D Printing Change Everything; How APIs Will Drive Agency PaaS Adoption; Open Data Gurus Share Best Practices
CAD & GIS News for Govies 2/14
CAD News for Govies is a weekly feature on Acronym that scans thousands of industry articles to present you with a regular source of CAD and GIS news, events, and ideas that impact the public sector. Here’s the latest round-up:
Mapping the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Google Earth
Strong & Weak Decoupled Architectures
In most cases, a standard SOA environment won't fail too badly if forklifted into a cloud. SOA’s weak decoupling works fairly well as a starting pattern in a cloud environment. There is another step to decoupling applications for cloud environments, something I'm going to call “Cloud Oriented Architecture.”
Technically News - 2/3
This week in Technically News: Federal Contractors Should Implement Cybersecurity in Operations & Products, Says DoD & GSA; 20 Cloud Computing Statistics Every CIO Should Know; One Way Lawmakers Are Trying to Prevent Government IT Disasters; Internet of Things Adds to Cybersecurity Challenge; FedRAMP Deadline Looms For Agencies, Cloud Providers
Technically News - 1/27
This week in Technically News: NIST Drops Privacy Appendix From Cybersecurity Framework; Integrate Cybersecurity with Federal Cloud Computing Adoption, Says Karen Evans; How FedRAMP Lifts All Cloud Ships.
Chasing 9s
My point is you need to change your focus to get application uptime in a cloud environment. In fact, you need to realize that your fancy and expensive HA solution was nothing but a band aid.
Achieve Mission Success with Google for Govies
Read "Achieve Mission Success with Google for Govies," a resource guide that explores how innovative and secure visualization, mapping, search, and collaboration tools from Google are helping the federal government simplify IT and realize its cloud computing goals, while achieving enhanced productivity with reduced costs.