HP Expands Govt Cloud to Meet FISMA, FedRAMP Standards; Marilyn Crouther Comments
HP Enterprise Services is expanding its cloud management offerings for government customers at the federal, state and local levels. The company said HP Enterprise Cloud Services–Compute is designed to fulfill moderate baseline security and privacy requirements under the Federal Information Security Management Act and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Marilyn Crouther, senior vice [...]
NASA and international governments are set to launch a competition challenging developers to design open data-based solutions. NASA said Friday the International Space Apps Challenge will take place on April 21 and April 22. Events will take place on all seven continents and on the International Space Station. The space agency said scientists, software developers [...]
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Former Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra joined social cloud company Salesforce in January and is now championing a move into social government, according to NextGov. Kundra, now Salesforce’s executive vice president of emerging markets, said cloud computing is no longer a debate. Kundra said most are moving toward a cloud infrastructure. Kundra said the next [...]
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The Commerce Department is looking for ways to use public data and technology to help businesses identify opportunities, grow, enhance productivity and create jobs. The department launched a contest Wednesday, challenging developers to create applications to help businesses evaluate national and international opportunity, fund business activities and support training. “In an increasingly mobile world, the [...]
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VCE Chairman Michael Capellas recently spoke at CA World 2011 in Las Vegas on the latest technology trends that are transforming data centers and enabling greater business agility. His keynote session featured CA Technologies CEO Bill McCracken, former first Federal CIO and current Harvard fellow Vivek Kundra, and former Facebook marketing director and Founder of R to Z [...]
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Salesforce.com announced today details of its annual Dreamforce conference, the world’s largest cloud computing industry event that aims to discuss innovations and trends and enhance collaboration and communication among companies and their customers. Dreamforce 2011 invites attendees to learn how technology can impact their businesses and industries through social, mobile and open cloud computing. According [...]
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In a Sept. 28, 2010 memo, federal CIO Vivek Kundra laid out specific steps for agencies to expedite the operational deployment and use of IPv6 — the so-called Next Generation Net, which is an updated infrastructure of the current system, IPv4. Designed to provide new services and capabilities, the new protocol would extend the available IP [...]
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is hosting host its third Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop on April 7-8, 2011, with a speaker lineup that boasts of federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf and NIST Director Patrick Gallagher. Panel sessions during the forum will feature international cloud-computing experts [...]
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U.S. Cyber Command and NSA head Keith B. Alexander and White House cyber coordinator Howard A. Schmidt have been chosen among the top 50 government CIOs on InformationWeek Government’s compilation of technology leaders across federal, state and local agencies. But what exactly makes a top government CIO? Although there is no one-size-fits-all answer for that [...]
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released two new drafts on cloud computing for public comment and launched a new website to enable two-way communication among the cloud community and NIST cloud research working groups. Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra asked NIST to speed up the federal government’s secure adoption of cloud [...]
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