VMware’s Tony Scott has been chosen to become the next U.S. chief information officer, according to a White House announcement on Thursday. Scott will follow in the footsteps of previous U.S… Read more »
2008 was about social networking, 2012 about big data and analytics and 2016 could well be about personalization and location, says Michael Slaby, former CIO of Obama for America. Read more »
Vivek Kundra held the inaugural and defining role for the federal government’s position of CIO. We are thrilled to be able to host a conversation with this much lauded and accomplished… Read more »
Amazon’s data center efficiency guru James Hamilton has a good post on Amazon’s new spot cloud service—EC2 Spot Instances—where excess data center capacity is being sold via bids on a spot… Read more »
This week UK Ministry of Justice official Martin Bellamy addressed concerns that the UK government has become less enthusiastic about a government cloud, saying, “We are expecting to be able to demonstrate… Read more »
Former federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra came out swinging this morning with an op-ed in the New York Times, a month after he left his post. While Kundra makes the… Read more »
Vivek Kundra, the U.S.’ first Chief Information Officer, is stepping down later this summer to take a fellowship position at Harvard University. Kundra has worked to transition the federal government to… Read more »
In President Obama’s budget announced yesterday, the feds may have opened a window of opportunity for cloud computing companies large and small hoping for some government largess. The federal budget hopes… Read more »
Is it possible to overstate the importance of Apps.gov to the cloud computing landscape? In one fell swoop, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra transformed a not-ready-for-primetime paradigm into a government-ready delivery model… Read more »