By Jaime Ryan Last week Layer 7 sponsored Forrester’s CIO and Enterprise Architecture forums in Las Vegas. These were great conferences with various tracks covering such lofty concepts as “business strategy” and “innovation”. But the track that was getting everyone talking – and driving attendance a... May. 10, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 229 |
By CloudCommons 2012  Can Google Apps unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? This CIO article shares insight from the CIO of New England Biolabs, which recently conducted proof-of-concept testing with Google Apps for Business. While New England Biolabs decided to stick with its Outlook/Exchange Server set-up... May. 10, 2012 07:58 AM EDT Reads: 942 |
By Cloud Ventures Our primary activity here is matching vendors and other innovations to the best practice standards defined for Cloud Computing by organizations like NIST. For example one of the key areas that NIST highlights is offline replication. In short when you find yourself in a location with no... May. 9, 2012 08:46 AM EDT Reads: 489 |
By Charles Rich We’ve said it before and we’re going to say it again: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is red hot right now. Although it’s a mature market, the capabilities APM brings to the table are only increasing in value throughout the enterprise. … Continue reading → May. 8, 2012 12:59 PM EDT Reads: 201 |
By RealWire News Distribution User Virtualisation Solutions Transform Organisations into Productive Mobile Workforces Securely Governed by IT London - May 8, 2012 - AppSense, the people-centric computing company, today announced the intent to acquire RAPsphere, a mobile IT company developing mobile information mana... May. 8, 2012 09:40 AM EDT Reads: 455 |
By Cloud Ventures  The bare bones skeleton of the Canada Cloud Roadmap is now available – This provides the outline document that we will then populate with exciting new Cloud products and services. The first of these is ‘UCaaS’ – Unified Communications as a Service. How we build ... May. 8, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 443 |
By Udayan Banerjee  Mobile management and security vendor Good released its quarterly device activations report. The report states that iOS dominate Android four to one in the enterprise. This is in spite of Android devices having an equal or slightly larger market share compared to iPhone.
Is it because... May. 8, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,036 |
By CloudCommons 2012  A recent study revealed that the government is saving around $5.5 billion a year since the shift to cloud, according to this CRN article. The study was created from interviews with 108 federal IT managers and CIOs and was published by MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange. The study also f... May. 4, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,221 |
By Kevin Benedict
The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.
Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News ... May. 3, 2012 11:16 AM EDT Reads: 730 |
By David Smith Douglas Merrill, former CIO/VP of Engineering at Google, writes in Forbes about using the R language for data analysis: Most folks with math-oriented graduate degrees will have written something in R, a non-commercial option for your big data analysis. So, great graduates from great gr... May. 2, 2012 07:25 PM EDT Reads: 351 |
By Bob Gourley There is no excuse for the abuses we are learning about at GSA. We should all be bothered by the waste, fraud and abuse and I hope the government moves fast to correct the failures of leadership evident in these problems. Something else should bother us. The bad apples at GSA who eithe... May. 2, 2012 10:58 AM EDT Reads: 589 |
By Bob Gourley CTOvision.com publisher Bob Gourley is moderating the 2-3 May HP Government Software Summit today and tomorrow. This morning’s keynote was from NASA CIO Linda Cureton. Ms. Cureton delivered a lively and engaging presentation on how she finds trailblazing through federal IT. As t... May. 2, 2012 09:04 AM EDT Reads: 277 |
By PR.com Newswire LaGrange, OH, April 27, 2012 --(PR.com)-- SpaceBound, Inc. – Parent Company of BargainStation.com, NothingButSoftware.com, Priceplunge.com, SQRsolutions.com and XSDepot.com will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at Wagner’s in Westlake, Ohio.
In 1987... Apr. 27, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 208 |
By Bob Gourley Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: With the addition of several amendments to protect privacy and civil liberties, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing & Protection Act has enough votes to pass through the House of Representatives. More here. The directo... Apr. 25, 2012 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 299 |
By Brian McCallion  This article addresses some of the important questions a colleague raised Friday afternoon about how and if the demands of Cloud Computing can or must be “slotted” in to fit the rest of the IT organization.
This writer (highly regarded thought leader focused on Enterprise Cloud Comput... Apr. 23, 2012 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 343 |
By Bob Gourley Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The House of Representatives will begin discussing four cybersecurity bills this week but will not consider the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness (PRECISE) Act of 201... Apr. 23, 2012 05:47 PM EDT Reads: 294 |
By Lori MacVittie  Taking advantage of cloud-hosted resources does not require forklift re-architecture of the data center. That may sound nearly heretical but that’s the truth, and I’m not talking about just SaaS which, of course, has never required anything more than an Internet connection to “integrat... Apr. 18, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,219 |
By Bob Gourley Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in The Atlantic Council’s Young Professionals in Cyber Policy discussion with thinkers from industry, academia, think tanks, and policy. After speaking with Karl Grindal of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, I realized that part of t... Apr. 9, 2012 11:26 AM EDT Reads: 367 |
By Cloud Ventures A good example of how the industry has evolved and developed over the years is that at some levels it has transformed massively, and on others the underlying models are still much the same. For example a topic hotting up very quickly for 2012 is Cloud Service Brokers, the intermediarie... Apr. 5, 2012 07:31 AM EDT Reads: 352 |
By Bob Gourley Mobile is the wave of the future, and it’s not just because the PC is dead. It is because we have to more work, more places, just to keep up with business. This is true of government as expectations rise (and dollars drop). This discussion featured Donald Kachman of the VA, Phil ... Apr. 3, 2012 01:12 PM EDT Reads: 528 |
By RealWire News Distribution Delivers Actionable Data Across the Supply Chain Automated Data Capture and Sharing Improves Condition Monitoring and Track-and-Trace Accountability for Food and Pharmaceutical IndustriesORLANDO, Fla, - RFID Journal LIVE! - April 3, 2012 - Intelleflex, a leading provider of on-demand d... Apr. 3, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 237 |
By Bob Gourley Steven VanRoekel kicked off FOSE 2012 with a bang. He gave an intriguing, educational and creative presentation that gave good insight into what the federal government is doing right now, and how they are solving the problem of innovating on a flat (and declining) budgets. Mr. VanRoeke... Apr. 3, 2012 10:14 AM EDT Reads: 478 |
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By RealWire News Distribution - Almost ten percent believe Olympic chaos is guaranteed- Information storage ranks as CIO's biggest headacheUK CIOs are concerned that the upcoming Olympic Games will affect their business, according to a survey conducted by ControlCircle, a leading UK managed services provider.A rece... Mar. 27, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 298 |
By Ted McLaughlan The Information Technology (IT) inventory of HR role and position labels is broad and deep. IT position descriptions may be closely associated with actual black box technology (like "Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Administrator" or "Storage Area Network (SAN) Engineer"), or they may des... Mar. 26, 2012 12:29 PM EDT Reads: 831 |
By Avi Rosenthal On March 19th I participated in STKI Summit. Mar. 23, 2012 05:03 AM EDT Reads: 540 |
By Cloud Ventures The purpose of our Product Roadmap is explained exactly in the latest CIO.gov Cloud document – Cloud Best Practices guide called “Best Practices for Acquiring IT as a Service”. Download the 44-page PDF here. In the section Agency Roles in the Use of Cloud Computing, they make thi... Mar. 20, 2012 07:59 PM EDT Reads: 284 |
By Charles Rich In 1909, Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store, coined the phrase “The customer is always right,” and it has become the mantra of countless businesses since. At the time, Gordon could have been considered a customer service … Continue reading →... Mar. 20, 2012 12:04 PM EDT Reads: 182 |
By John Treadway  Despite the fact that cloud is part of the daily conversation in many enterprises, I still find a significant gap in many places in terms of a true understanding of that it means. This is somewhat compounded by the reliance on standard definitions of cloud computing from NIST and other... Mar. 17, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,794 |
By Bob Gourley FOSE is shaping up to be the event to be at for 2012. Here are two really interesting activities I think you will want to see: -Steven VanRoekel, CIO of the United States, has been added as a keynote speaker on Tuesday, April 3 at 8:45am: Steven VanRoekel -As part of the Mobile Governm... Mar. 13, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 215 |
By Bob Gourley  A new LinkedIn Group has been formed for professionals who are seeking advanced warning of technology that can make significant positive change to the status quo in enterprise IT. This group, the “Disruptive IT” group, is a closed group, meaning that you must apply to an be... Mar. 13, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 821 |
By Bob Gourley If you are a federal CTO or CIO or other IT professional please read on for information on a workshop coordinated by the Partnership for Public Service. First, a word about the Partnership, from their website: The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization ... Mar. 11, 2012 12:11 PM EDT Reads: 264 |
By CloudCommons 2012  NIST has released a major revision to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). The public draft of the Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations provides a set of security standards that are meant to help protect government agencies... Mar. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,846 |
By CloudCommons 2012  Is the US Patriot Act a red herring? Some European countries, as well as Brazil and China, have been using the U.S. Patriot Act as an excuse to set up barriers for the transfer of data into the U.S., but according to Business Software Alliance CEO Robert Holleyman, those countries have... Mar. 6, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,230 |
By Cloud Ventures One of our flagship best practice programs is GovCloud.info. This presents a world-wide summary of Government Cloud Computing, in particular the USA standards organization NIST and also CIO.gov. Recently they published another Cloud Best Practices guide for GovCloud, called “Best... Mar. 5, 2012 10:32 AM EST |
By Kevin Benedict
The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.
Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News ... Mar. 1, 2012 01:35 PM EST Reads: 1,193 |
By RealWire News Distribution Avaya Communications Outsourcing Solutions provides multi-vendor, custom-managed services for large businesses, helping to unlock potential of aging communications environmentsSolutions tap Avaya's global managed services scale, investment and expertise to accelerate cost-savings, perf... Feb. 29, 2012 09:07 PM EST Reads: 399 |
By Bob Gourley The FOSE conference is an annual conference in DC that combines offers novel approaches to government technology solutions. Come meet some great government technologists, hear success stories and get excited for the next wave of public and private technological innovations. Find FOSE o... Feb. 27, 2012 09:48 AM EST Reads: 403 |
By Gilad Parann-Nissany Thor Olavsrud 18.02.2012 | CIO.com When it comes to security in the cloud, organizations are confident in their cloud providers, but also and reluctant to expose certain types of data and applications, according to IT industry association CompTIA. Security vendors maintain the pro... Feb. 18, 2012 05:51 AM EST Reads: 434 |
By Cloud Ventures A great example of Canadian Cloud innovation is that while our next main webinar, Cloud BCP is intended for a global audience the speaker line up so far is all Canadian. It’s a focus on how the Cloud can be leveraged for enhanced business continuity protection, and our speakers i... Feb. 15, 2012 07:58 PM EST Reads: 357 |
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