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| Video: The Federal Cloud Computing Initiative Update |
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February 02 2011 |
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Opening Presentation by Deniece Peterson, Manager of Industry Analysis at INPUT. Moderator: Michael Binko, President & CEO at kloudtrack. Panelists: Kevin Jackson, Cloud Evangelist & Engineering Fellow at NJVC - Nick Hoover, Sr Editor at InformationWeek - Robert O Ames, Director and Deputy CTO at IBM Federal |
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| Video: Rhianna Collier previews Cloud/Gov 2011 |
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December 07 2010 - siia.net |
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SIIA VP for Software Rhianna Collier previews Cloud/Gov ’11, a collaboration between INPUT, the authority on government business, and SIIA. |
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| SIIA CloudGOV to Help Federal Agencies Adopt New 'Cloud-First' Policy |
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January 05 2011 - Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) |
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The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, today invited media to attend its fifth annual forum on the adoption of cloud computing in the public sector. CloudGOV (formerly known as SaaSGov), will take place February 17 at the Westin Washington, D.C. City Center Hotel. The conference takes on special relevance this year – coming on the heels of the newly announced federal IT "cloud-first" reform policy.
CloudGOV will serve as a key resource for government executives, integrators, and independent software vendors involved in shifting applications and services to the cloud in compliance with the new federal IT reform plan. |
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SIIA Digital Discourse» Cloud Computing |
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| May 15 2012 |
| Last Friday, Representatives Elijah Cummings (MD) and Gerry Connelly (VA) hosted a Congressional Forum on Information Technology at the Fairfax County, Virginia Government Center to review government’s efforts to leverage innovative technology to reduce cost and improve citizen services. The forum featured testimony from Federal CIO Steven Van Roekel, as well as industry representatives including [...] ... read more >> |
| May 04 2012 |
| There were a couple of expected but relatively big announcements around cloud in the federal government this week. First and foremost was the issuance of the Federal IT Shared Services Strategy on May 2nd by Federal CIO, Steve VanRoekel. The Shared Services Strategy, like the Shared-First Initiative before it, seeks to reduce the overall cost [...] ... read more >> |
| May 03 2012 |
| Tip 10: Who Wants to be a Cloud Geek? We have two exciting activities planned to test your Cloud knowledge. First, mark your calendars as May 9th will mark our first “Who Wants to be a Cloud Geek?” game show. The contestants representing “Integration”, “Monetization”, and “Partnership” will be looking to the audience for a [...] ... read more >> |
| April 27 2012 |
| Probably the biggest cloud event this week was the Salesforce.com Cloud Force event held on Wednesday at the DC Convention Center. The more than 1000 attendees were treated to a keynote presentation by former Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra. The event focused heavily on the use of social media in the corporate world but also featured [...] ... read more >> |
| April 25 2012 |
| Tip 9: Enjoy the City by the Bay Wow, All About the Cloud is right around the corner. In just a couple of short weeks, executives representing the entire cloud computing ecosystem will converge on the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. While we have a number of activities planned to keep you busy, we want [...] ... read more >> |
| April 20 2012 |
| New Saugatuck Thought-leadership Papers on ISV Partnering for Innovation and Speed ISVs developing and/or migrating their business and offering portfolios to compete in today’s constant-innovation, Cloud-speed marketplaces may be interested in a series of thought-leadership papers just developed and published on behalf of Wipro Technologies. Based on Saugatuck’s years of working with and guiding ISVs [...] ... read more >> |
| April 20 2012 |
| This week, DOD and Intelligence officials speaking at the AFCEA conference highlighted the need to match acquisition policy with the speed of technology. As we have seen over many years, governments consistently struggle to change their culture and mindset, as well as the underlying acquisition policy, to keep pace with changing technology. As governments plan [...] ... read more >> |
| April 19 2012 |
| Executives from Google Enterprise and Oracle, along with Pulitzer Prize finalist Nick Carr, a columnist and celebrated author of “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,” have been announced as keynote speakers for the 2012 All About the Cloud conference. The seventh annual event will take place May 8-10 at San Francisco’s [...] ... read more >> |
| April 13 2012 |
| The run up to FedRAMP continued this week, with an announcement on Friday morning by Dave McClure, GSA Associate Administrator for the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technology, that the first FedRAMP 3PAOs would be announced in May. This represents a slight delay from what we had been hearing over the past few months, [...] ... read more >> |
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