Cloud computing is the process of outsourcing IT services, such as data storage and e-mail, to a shared platform accessed remotely through the Internet. This arrangement has been praised for saving money and energy, as a vendor maintains the infrastructure and applications that run in the cloud environment instead of the agency. The use of cloud computing in the federal government is on the rise. The General Services Administration successfully transferred the federal Web portal USA.gov to the cloud and subsequently released a federal cloud computing storefront, apps.gov, aimed at reducing IT costs for agencies.
How About Some Fog Computing?
February 09, 2012
| Bob Brewin
Last year Marine Brig. Gen. Kevin Nally had it with the term cloud computing, which had morphed into a buzz phrase about as informative as "transformation," a word beloved by Pentagon bureaucracy. So Nally...
USA. gov, Data. gov Take Flight to the Cloud - Tech Insider
January 24, 2012
| Joseph Marks
The General Services Administration has begun the process of moving its public Web presence to the cloud, according to a press release from CGI Federal, which won the $21 million five-year contract for...
Tech industry hopes for more certainty in 2012
January 24, 2012
A year after President Obama called for the United States to "out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build" the rest of the world in his 2011 State of the Union speech, the tech industry sees more to be done...
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Security Technology:'' Cloud Computing
October 06, 2011
| Department of Homeland Security Press Releases
DHS CIO Richard Spires discussed the changes Cloud Computing ... He also provided an overview of the current state of cloud computing at DHS,...
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