The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded Unisys with a contract to create a secure cloud-based email and collaboration platform based on GSA decision to move to Google Apps for Government. The new system will allow GSA employees to work remotely from any location at any time. The migration will also result in a 50-percent [...]
Mike Bradshaw, director of Google’s federal services, is excited about the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification for the company’s “Google Apps for Government” cloud computing services, which happened earlier this week. After meeting primary federal IT security measures, Google was certified for passing the security controls under FISMA and, now, a full suite [...]
Google’s Mike Bradshaw said Federal IT is at a “crossroads.” Bradshaw testified before the House Oversight Committee earlier in the month about the cloud. For more, click here.
For the U.S. government, the transition to cloud computing is a marathon, not a sprint. Agencies are taking baby-steps towards their adoption of the data storage service in the sky in order to ensure that full security measures are taken to protect the government from outside attackers. While it is predicted that the full transition [...]
During a speech at the Brookings Institute on Monday, Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski discussed his support for net neutrality. He suggested that the existing guidelines set forth by the FCC for net neutrality should be codified for regulation purposes. According to cnet news, two new guidelines that Genachowski advocates adding to net neutrality “would [...]
Cloud computing has been generating a lot of ink lately, and not all of it favorable. A Government Computer News article recently called cloud computing a red herring in the government IT marketplace. What’s missing from the conversation, what are the critics not considering? ExecutiveBiz recently brought those questions to Mike Bradshaw, federal team director [...]
We all know that 2009 will be shaped by significant events — a new administration, the pending drawdown of the Iraq war, and of course the economy. But how will it all play out, and how will it affect the federal marketplace? For the top 2009 predictions, we went straight to some of the area’s [...]
