URS Provides US Government Cloud Computing; Randall Wotring Comments
URS Corporation’s URS Apptis obtained Authority to Operate for its FedCloud.com service portal to the U.S. Government allowing government agencies to easily purchase cloud computing infrastructure using a Blanket Purchase Agreement for IaaS from GSA. URS was granted the ATO after FedCloud.com met government security requirements and completed the Assessment and Authorization process in accord with [...]
HP Enterprise Services Public Sector Chief Technologist Jeff Bergeron has been named a commissioner for TechAmerica Foundation’s Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud, also known as CLOUD2. Bergeron and a team of other cloud experts will work to provide the Obama administration with recommendations for how government should use cloud [...]
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Vivek Kundra’s Fix for Broken IT: ‘Stop Throwing Good Money after Bad Money’
December 13, 2010 No CommentOutlining his plan to reform federal IT, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra had one favorite expression he used repeatedly to illustrate the underperforming, overbudget projects exemplifying government waste: throwing good money after bad money. Kundra and Office of Management and Budget Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients last week unveiled a 25-point plan at a [...]
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