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.

This week in Technically News: IaaS Performance Benchmarks Part 2: AWS; CryptoLocker, Kegotip, Medfos Malware Triple-Threat; How Government IT Uses Virtualization to Lock Down Clouds; State CIO Scramble to Keep Pace with Technology; 7 Keys to More Modern & Secure Government.

This week in Technically News: Shutdown Heightens Cybersecurity Risks, Feds Warn; Symantec Knocks Half a Million Computers Out of the ZeroAccess Botnet; Budget Worries Grow for Government IT Leaders; Why IT's Economics Revolution Is More Than OpEx and CapEx; Your Fragile Supply Chain: Fatal to Business.

Earlier this summer, the DLT Cloud Advisory Group surveyed our public sector customers to find out where they stood in their adoption of cloud technology. It was no surprise that information security and data privacy continued to top the list as key obstacles holding them back from their migrations. Traditional IT models allowed CIOs and managers to physically see where their data was being stored; moving to the cloud has raised questions about who controls what, especially in terms of data protection.

This week in Technically News: The State Worker: Lessons from Ohio’s State Tech Project; States Test New Credentialing Approaches; Observations From This Year’s NSA Open Source Industry Day; GAO: Agencies Can’t Get FISMA Just Right; CIOs See Big Data as Internet-like Innovation Platform for Government; Could Agencies Avoid Disaster in a Nirvanix-like Cloud Shutdown?

Cloud computing is a global phenomenon. Its promise of rapid procurement of IT services, scaled up and down as necessary, results in the perfect mix for public sector CIOs and program managers looking to save money and improve service delivery. But what about the procurement process for these sought after cloud services?

This week in Technically News: NetApp Outlines Strategy for Data Management Across Clouds; Major Changes Ahead as NIST Cybersecurity Framework Nears Oct. Publication; State Finds Power in Data Center Consolidation; More Than 1 in 5 Cyber Jobs Vacant at Key DHS Division; Cybersecurity Depends on Smarter Design, NIST Fellow Says.

This week in Technically News: Symantec to Start Revoking Customer’s SSL Certificates by October 1; Oracle Launches Cloud Services Built for Government Agencies; Red Hat CIO Takes an Open-Source Approach to Security & BYOD; Are Federal IT Initiatives Strangling Agency Networks; 13 Cloud Computing Stats for CIOs; Cybersecurity Legislation: What’s Next.

This week in Technically News: Army Admits To Major Computer Security Flaw; Secure Data, Not Devices; NIST Issues Preliminary Cybersecurity Draft Framework; Red Hat Unveils New Offerings, Cloud Certification at VMworld; Investment Capital Floods Cybersecurity Market.

This week in Technically News: Outsourcing Cybersecurity; Amazon Still Public Cloud Leader by a Long Shot; and Goverment CIOs Prioritize Business Intelligence, Analytics, IT Management as Role Changes.