Internally developed and DoD component-conceived private clouds for DoD are not likely to happen. DoD does not have the software talent and cannot afford acquiring it in the next few years. DoD does not have the capital or the time to construct several billion dollar cloud data centers. DoD migration into the cloud environment can [...]

Unisys partnering with Google and Section 8(a) contractors (Tempus Nova and Acumen Solutions) will deliver Google cloud-computing services to the General Services Administration (GSA). Their 15,000 employees will switch from desktops and laptops hosted on local servers to network-hosted applications operated from Google data centers. GSA is among the first federal agencies to move into [...]

The attractive person you encounter on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Nexopia, Bebo, Friendster, Orkut or many other social web sites outside of the U.S.A. could be actually a fake. There are many ways of constructing such fictitious individuals, including persons invented by a government agency. * An Internet IP address can be registered for as little [...]

The “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management” issued by the U.S. Chief Information Officer on December 9, 2010 states that “… OMB found that many IT projects are scheduled to produce the first deliverable years after work begins, in some cases up to six years later. In six years, technology will [...]

On December 9, 2010 Vivek Kundra, the U.S. Chief information officer, announced a 25 point implementation plan to reform federal information technology management. * One of the key initiatives will be a strategy to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing across the government. Each Agency CIO will be required to identify three services and create [...]