By Kevin Jackson
May 14, 2012 05:41 PM EDT
Late today the FedRAMP Program Management Office released the first list of
certified Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAOs). These companies are
accredited to perform initial and periodic assessment of cloud service
provider (CSP) systems per FedRAMP requirements, provide ... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
May 8, 2012 04:50 AM EDT
Last week the GSA FedRAMP Program Office released the latest version of the
cloud computing Security Assessment Plan (SAR) template. This document is
the most recent step toward the Federal governments goal of establishing
FedRAMP initial operating Capability by June 2012.
The ... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
April 4, 2012 12:15 PM EDT
NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions providers
supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, and Gravitant®, a provider of
cloud brokerage and management solutions for IT enterprises, announce a new
strategic alliance. Under the terms of the partnership, the tw... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
March 18, 2012 02:03 PM EDT
NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions (IT) providers
supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, is pleased to announce that Kevin
L. Jackson, vice president (VP) and general manager (GM), cloud services,
will speak at the 2012 Emerging Threats and Cyber Defens... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
March 13, 2012 04:07 PM EDT
NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions (IT) providers
supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, announces that a white paper
addressing the risks and benefits of cloud computing for the intelligence
community (IC)—co-authored by Kevin L. Jackson, NJVC vice pr... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
March 12, 2012 05:00 AM EDT
(Originally posted by Bob Gourley at CTOvision)
Over the last year I’ve had the pleasure of serving with a team of
volunteers from the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) as we
dove deep into topics associated with Cloud Computing and the Intelligence
Community. Na... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
March 8, 2012 05:00 AM EST
Next week at the Hyatt Regency in reston, Virginia, the Cloud Standards
Customer Council will be holding its Public Sector Cloud Summit. This two
day cloud event will feature international public sector Cloud leaders to
exchange information about current projects, future plans, a... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
February 22, 2012 02:05 AM EST
CONGRATULATIONS to National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) CIO Jill T. Singer
for being selected as one of the 10 winners of the first annual CloudNOW
awards presented at the Cloud Connect Conference in Sata Clara, California
earlier this week.
From the NRO Press Release:
"Consider... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
January 27, 2012 07:00 AM EST
VIENNA, Va., Jan. 23, 2012 —NJVC, one of the largest information technology
solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, and Virtual
Global, a premier provider of software and cloud computing platform solutions
for a variety of industry and federal customers, an... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
December 28, 2011 02:00 PM EST
Over the past years, government cloud computing has steadily moved forward
from it's early beginnings as an interesting curiosity:
December 23, 2008 - Now really. Should the Obama administration use cloud
computing?
Since Sunday's broadcast, I've been asked numerous times about m... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
December 4, 2011 04:31 PM EST
The National Cloud Technologist Association is bringing the CloudMASTER &
CloudGURU certification classes to the Washington Metropolitan Area in 2012.
First introduced in November at the New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT) in Newark, this continuing education program provid... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
November 16, 2011 10:49 PM EST
It gives me great pleasure to announce the relaunch of GovCloud.com! GovCoud
is the “go to” place for everything related to federal cloud computing.
Our mission is to help federal organizations learn about, try and securely
adopt cloud computing technologies. In full alignment wi... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
November 14, 2011 10:15 PM EST
THANK YOU BACKUPIFY!!!!
Thank you for the honor of being on your Top 10 List! Backupify is the
leading backup provider for cloud based data, offering an all-in-one
archiving, search and restore service for the most popular online services
including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter ... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
October 29, 2011 01:45 PM EDT
NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions providers
supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) , is pleased to announce that
Kevin Jackson, general manager, cloud services, will participate in the
“Security Assumption Buster Panel” during the National Insti... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
October 17, 2011 10:22 PM EDT
NJVC , one of the largest information technology (IT) solutions providers
supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, is pleased to announce that Kevin
Jackson, General Manager, cloud services, will serve as the moderator for the
GEOINT 2011 Symposium panel, “Cloud Computing and t... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
October 13, 2011 11:03 PM EDT
NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions providers
supporting the Department of Defense, announces its lineup for the Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo®, Oct. 16 - 20 at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in
Orlando, Fla.
Visit the NJVC booth (#206) on the tradeshow floo... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
October 10, 2011 11:36 AM EDT
NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions (IT) providers
supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), is pleased to offer live,
compelling demonstrations on the company’s Streamlined NJVC Automation
Products, Services and Solutions™ (SNAPSS™) at GEOINT 2011
... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
October 6, 2011 02:14 PM EDT
This afternoon I had a very interesting discussion with Mr. Jeffrey Kaplan,
Managing Director of THINKstrategies and founder of the Cloud Computing
Showplace. His firm is focused entirely on the business implications of the
transition of the technology industry from product-centr... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
October 3, 2011 09:00 AM EDT
(The following is the Executive Summary of a recent NJVC Executive
Whitepaper. The full version is available at NJVC.com )
Cloud computing, as defined by the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, is a model for enabling “… convenient, on-demand network
access to a share... (more)
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By Kevin Jackson
September 19, 2011 09:00 AM EDT
(This is part 4 of the series entitled "Implementation of Cloud Computing
Solutions in Federal Agencies". First published on Forbes.com, this series
provides the content of a whitepaper I recently authored. A copy of the
complete whitepaper will be available at NJVC.com starting ... (more)
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