
To Cloud Or Not To Cloud?
To evangelists it is “going where no man has gone before”; to skeptics it just “puts us behind the 8-ball to secure data”; and to many IT vets, it is “déjà vous all over again” taking us back to the days of mainframes and dumb terminals. To Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, Cloud Computing is fundamental to the technology strategy being developed by the Obama Administration of how to get more efficiency from IT, while expanding applications and reducing costs.
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Keeper of the Federal Cloud
After you “talk the talk” about a Cloud Computing strategy and building a Federal Cloud, you actually have to “walk the walk” and do something about it. Self proclaimed propeller-head and geek Patrick Stingley, CTO of the Federal Cloud is in charge of doing something about it.
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Definitions of Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing offers the prospect of dramatically increasing your computing power, being able to balance workloads with demand and paying only for the services you use. Here is how a few of the leaders, including NIST, Gartner and IDC, in the Cloud Computing marketplace define Cloud.
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Safety In The Clouds
When your applications are run from the Cloud; when your data is stored in the Cloud; and when you don’t know who else is sharing the same Cloud resources as you, it can make you a little skittish – perhaps even reluctant to even consider Cloud Computing for your organization. You may think you are giving up control and perhaps security over your data.
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17 Steps To The Cloud
What the government IT manager needs when getting ready to embark on their migration to the Cloud is a good template; one that defines a proven roadmap to follow.
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Cloud Computing Full Report [PDF Format]