In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Dr. Virginia Ross from the U.S. Air Force presents: Cloud computing for DoD.
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Why the Feds Stumble in the Cloud
Over at InfoWorld, David Linthicum looks at why the government is falling short of its goals to move to Cloud Computing.
The simple fact is that the people running government IT don’t have the skills or the money to begin the cloud shift. If they’re forced to migrate to cloud systems, they’re likely to stumble — a bad career move if you’re a government CIO.
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Video: Impact of Cloud Computing on Developing Economies
In this video, researchers discuss the impact of Cloud Computing on developing economies.
While there has been much discussion about the impact of cloud computing in developed countries, there has been little research on the impact that this will have on developing countries. In a new report, Peter F. Cowhey and Michael Kleeman (University of California San Diego) take an in-depth look at the impact that cloud computing will have on India, Mexico and South Africa given their respective policies, technologies, and resources.
Amazon’s Increasing Share of Government Cloud
Over at InformationWeek, J. Nicholas Hoover writes that Amazon is looking to grow its share of the Government cloud computing market with new services. AWS already has 1,800 government and education customers
The announcement of continued growth in Amazon’s public sector business came as the company also announced new features for government customers at Amazon’s AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The new features are for AWS GovCloud, a dedicated community cloud for U.S. government customers that meets strict federal arms control regulations.
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Video: How the Cloud Dissolves Borders
In this video, EMC CEO Howard Elias describes how Cloud Computing dissolves borders.
Video: El Paso Simplifies and Protects IT with HP Pod Datacenter
In this video, officials describe how the City and County of El Paso, Texas uses HP Performance Optimized Datacenters (PODs) to achieve cost-effective, redundant data centers at primary and disaster recovery sites. Read the Full Story.
Case Study: NASA Shares Mars Info with AWS
A new case study describes how NASA JPL uses Amazon Web Services in their tactical operations pipeline for the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Operating the mars.jpl.nasa.gov website on Amazon Web Services allowed NASA/JPL to broadcast their message to the world without building this infrastructure themselves. The broad set of capabilities and ease-of-use afforded by AWS allowed NASA/JPL to construct a robust, scalable web infrastructure in only two to three weeks instead of months.
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Feds Want Priority Access to Cloud Resources
Brandon Butler from Network World writes that a new report outlines how Federal agencies must be assured priority and uninterrupted access to public cloud resources before they can fully embrace the technology for national security and emergency response IT functions.
Fundamental requirements of NS/EP include a high degree of assured availability under any condition of stress; high measures of system and content integrity; confidentiality as required by specific missions; and mechanisms for priority access to resources in the performance of NS/EP functions,” the report states.
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Video: Progress Report from NIST on Moving Public Sector IT to the Cloud
In this video, NIST Director and Undersecretary for Standards and Technology Patrick Gallagher reviews NIST’s progress in Cloud Computing. NIST recently published a “Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap” and a complementary set of priority action plans.
