January
25
Several states are using an online balloting website based on Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform to allow U.S. voters living overseas to cast their votes via the Web in 2012 primary elections....
Posts Tagged: cloud infrastructure
January
10
The U.S. Army has awarded nearly $250 million to a group of contractors to consolidate data centers and provision on-demand IT services and storage via a private cloud....
November
05
NASA, already among the government leaders in cloud computing, plans to offer a cloud storefront where scientists will be able to determine their computing needs and access cloud services from a central location. The space agency is widely known as a cloud computing success story in the government f...
October
07
The Homeland Security Department is taking “an aggressive stance” regarding the use of private and public cloud computing services, Richard Spires, chief information officer, said on Oct. 6. DHS is implementing nine private clouds and three public clouds, Spires told the House Homeland Security ...
August
31
via Forbes.com (This is part 2 of the series entitled “Implementation of Cloud Computing Solutions in Federal Agencies”. This series provides the content of a whitepaper I recently authored. A copy of the complete whitepaper will be available at NJVC.com starting September 7, 2011.) Despite th...
May
20
via InformationWeek Government The research arm of the Department of Defense (DOD) is seeking to develop cloud-computing-based infrastructure that builds resiliency directly into the network to more effectively support military missions. Through a project called the Mission-oriented Resilient Clouds...