Government Cloud on Ulitzer
Have you ever been given the task of building and executing an aggressive
customer outreach program?
Well I received my assignment about a year ago and trust me; the budget was
not commensurate with the assigned goal.
My particular need was to educate prospective Federal government customers on
a new information technology trend.
Known as cloud computing, this new approach blends service oriented
architecture (SOA), virtualization technologies and a "pay-by-the-use" sales
approach into a new IT delivery business model.
Although this new approach promised the delivery of better constituent
service at a reduced cost, risk adverse Federal agency decision makers needed
to know much more before they would even consider cloud computing as an
option.
During a time of economic collapse and fiscal crisis, competing security,
governance and procur... (more)
Government Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
Frank Gens of IDC recently provided an excellent overview of the the new
"Cloud Computing Era". His description of "cloud computing" and "cloud
services" really highlights the difference between the commercial cloud
computing market and the Federal cloud computing market.
(Paraphrased from Frank Gens' article)
When people talk about “cloud computing”, they are usually referring to
things like software-as-a-service (SaaS) and storage or server capacity as a
service. They may also talk about the many “non-IT” business and consumer
services like s... (more)
(In a recent discussion document titled "Clearing the air on cloud
computing", Will Forrest of McKinsey & Co. offered his view on cloud
computing. Unedited comments on the report from Mike Cameron and Rod
Fontecilla, Booz Allen Hamilton Principals are provided below, published at
their request.)
The recent McKinsey report on cloud computing “Clearing the air on cloud
computing” has caused a bit of a stir, primarily since it purports to
demonstrate that cloud computing can be twice as expensive as traditional
data centers in some applications. Since this report makes a claim to ... (more)
(The following interview was conducted by Mr. Bob Gourley and was originaly
posted on CTOvision.com on February 3,2009. I thank him for providing his
permission to repost this timely article on Government Cloud Computing.)
Every CTO I know has heard of Vivek Kundra, former CTO of the District of
Columbia. We have all been following his accomplishments in transforming
the technology program in DC and have watched in excitement as more and more
capabilities have been rolled out to serve the city and its citizens. We have
followed reports of bold moves he put in place to ensure tech... (more)
Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), is now a Ulitzer author. Appointed in November
2006, Ms Singer is responsible for ensuring CIA has the information,
technology, and infrastructure necessary to effectively execute its missions.
Prior to her appointment as Deputy CIO, she served as the Director of the
Diplomatic Telecommunications Service (DTS), United States Department of
State, and was responsible for global network services to US foreign
missions.
Speaking at the recent GovIT Expo in Washington DC, Ms Singer highlig... (more)