Salesforce.com is offering a new suite of government cloud computing solutions with a focus on social media, the New York Times reports. The San Francisco-based company is rolling out a new product line, coined Government Cloud, to provide public sector social and mobile technologies. Executive Vice President Vivek Kundra, the former U.S. chief information officer, [...]
A group led by salesforce.com and VCE are encouraging the Obama administration to adopt cloud computing. The group, made up of over 70 companies, recently sent a report to the Commerce Department and federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra saying the adopting cloud computing will drive job growth and secure U.S. technology leadership. “Without question, [...]
Last week, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra gave a presentation on the future of federal IT and a plan that focused on cloud computing, as a major key in transforming federal IT to save taxpayer dollars while boosting productivity. Kundra explained that government is to reliant on “large, customer proprietary system’s” that are inflexible to changing [...]
The Office of Management and Budget has outlined a 25-point plan to reform the ways federal agencies use technology, something federal CIO Vivek Kundra has called an end to “throwing good money after bad money.” Agencies’ new focus would be on email, storage and telecommunications, as well as major IT projects. Bob Dix, VP of [...]
As part of the administration’s plan to review and overhaul many federal information technology programs, the Office of Management and Budget Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra issued a memorandum yesterday outlining the upcoming reform of government IT projects. The review comes as part of the OMB Memorandum 10-25, “Reforming the Federal Government’s Efforts to [...]
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 [...]
The Obama administration’s design to cut down “wasteful” spending is lurching toward reality. In a bid to curb wasteful spending, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition Ashton Carter is making good on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ call to tighten the defense spending budget, while President Barack Obama’s budget and technology braintrust has put at least [...]
