DLT’s David Blankenhorn: Amazon Cloud A ‘Pay-By-The-Minute’ Plan
DLT Solutions will provide Amazon Web Services cloud computing platforms to public sector agencies on a month-to-month cost basis. DLT will also work with agency contract teams and technical leads to monitor how they spend on cloud technologies, Chief Cloud Technologist David Blankenhorn said in a blog post Thursday. The federal cloud provider intends to [...]
DLT Solutions has won a cooperative purchasing contract to provide public and nonprofit sector agencies cloud computing and web services technologies, the company said Tuesday. More than 90,000 agencies participate in the National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance including agencies at the city, county and state levels. “This NCPA contract is a significant win for us in [...]
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Many federal employees still use smartphones for work purposes despite their agency’s lack of a policy on workers bringing their own mobile devices into the office, a Cisco and GovLoop survey says. Nextgov reports the survey of 108 GovLoop members found 41 percent use their devices for email, 30 percent for reading and writing, 21 [...]
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The General Services Administration will host a webinar Tuesday to help agencies prepare for the entire lifecycle of their mobile applications and present three examples from agencies on how to carry this out. In a post on the MobileGovBlog, GSA said the webinar between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. Eastern time is free and open [...]
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A report from the TechAmerica Foundation’s Federal Big Data Commission says big data can be defined through identifying four major characteristics, ZDNet reports. Leaders and commissioners came from companies including IBM, SAP, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, EMC, NetApp, Grant Thornton and Computer Sciences Corp., according to Andrew Brust’s story. The report said that [...]
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NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Energy Department are co-sponsoring an innovation challenge aimed at harnessing the potential of big data, NASA announced Wednesday. Through the Big Data Challenge hosted by NASA’s tournament lab, competitors will come up with new analytical techniques and software tools that use big data from discrete government information domains. [...]
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NJVC Unveils New Cloudcuity Mgmt Platform for Agencies; Jody Tedesco Comments
September 14, 2012 No CommentNJVC is introducing a new cloud service framework for federal agencies to move their technology applications into a cloud environment, the company announced Thursday. Cloudcuity Management Portal is a commercial, multi-cloud broker service specifically designed for customers, the company said. NJVC is partnering with Gravitant to provide federal agencies Cloudcuity for agencies to test, configure [...]
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The White House has released an updated guidance for agencies on implementing “bring your own device” policies, Nextgov reports. Brittany Ballendstedt writes that a working group used recent BYOD programs at other agencies to form this new BYOD guidance. Goals of allowing employees to bring their own mobile devices into work include improved productivity, work-life [...]
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