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USA.Gov Moving To Clouds
Image via Wikipedia When Barack Obama was elected as President of United States, I predicted that his administration would tap into Cloud Computing for governance. Soon Obama team was talking about...
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Stop the Paper Madness
Tax Day is less than two weeks away. This year the IRS (The US Tax Agency) went out of their way to make sure I am doing things right: months ago they sent me a thick envelope with all the forms they...
View ArticleVMware Invests In Terramark
We covered the news of USA.Gov moving to Terramark enterprise cloud system here at Cloud Ave sometime back. We noted that their enterprise cloud is pretty much suited for Government purposes because of...
View ArticleUK Government To Have Countrywide Cloud Infrastructure
According to Reuven Cohen of Enomaly, UK Govt. is planning to release a countrywide Cloud Infrastructure. We, here at Cloud Ave, are a strong advocate of the use of Cloud Computing to make the...
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Where is YOUR data?
I posted recently about the increasingly positive news that cloud email providers have been gearing – large scale rollouts, more consumer acceptance and adoption by enterprise all point to a growing...
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Will Government Alter The Cloud SLA Game?
One of the key parameters in the push to accelerate enterprise cloud adoption is the SLA (Service Level Agreements). It is an important requirement before enterprises can even think of jumping into the...
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Crowdsourcing Ideas: Apparently Marijuana Is All California Needs
California has several big issues that need to be tackled. Our state budget seems to perpetually be in deficit mode, with drawn-out battles for resolving the red ink. The education system, once a...
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Everyone Is Having An App Store These Days, Why Not Govt.?
The current trend in any platform based business is to open an app store which will showcase the products/services of the ecosystem partners. Apple has perfected this art with its app store for iPhone....
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Government 2 point 0 Apps dot Gov Opens its Doors
Image by bensheldon via Flickr Give the government some credit sometimes, the new Apps.gov web site is an open shopping portal based on cloud computing and web 2.0 applications. The web site is clean,...
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Cloud Computing Is Not Killing Open Source Anywhere – A Response To Gartner
Image via Wikipedia Couple of weeks back, Andrea Di Maio of Gartner wrote a blog post arguing that cloud computing is killing open source in the government. He says that the government agencies are...
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Appistry Helps Build Secure Defense Clouds
Last few months saw the proliferation of Cloud Computing into all parts of US federal government, aided by a cloud friendly policy of Obama administration. In my opinion, government’s jump into Cloud...
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Online Collaboration Tools – We Want Your Recommendations
Here at CloudAve we’re firm believers in the power of collaboration. When Ben became part of a group looking at building a collaborative platform for data sharing for a local Government organization,...
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White House expands Gov 2.0 with landmark crowdsourcing directive
On March 8, 2010, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued guidance to Federal agencies strongly encouraging the use of…crowdsourcing (link to pdf). Specifically, using...
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Google Apps Shapes Up Nicely In Spite Of Noise Around City Of LA Bungling
The noise surrounding Google App’s City of LA deployment doesn’t appear to be dying down anytime soon. Yesterday, another article highlighting Google’s failure came up on the basis of a leaked email...
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Cloud Vendors Plead For Uniform Regulations In Europe
I have been covering the European cloud computing market a little bit here at Cloud Ave. One of the reasons for the failure of public cloud providers in that market is the strict privacy laws that...
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The lack of IT graduates has deep implications for the US Military
I am not a military expert – but as a follow on to yesterday’s very long blog entry on the Three Tiers of IT Workers and where the money is, there is some follow through that needs to be looked at. The...
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Wikileaks & Amazon – and Why That Was Good for the Rest of Us.
In his post about Amazon & Wikileaks, Krishnan’s position was that Amazon kicking out Wikileaks without a fair legal due process was in fact damaging for those of us who are proponents of the...
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From Arab Spring to UK Summer putting the brakes on Social Networking
First World meets Social Media and attempts to curtail it much like their third world counterparts – too late the cat is so far out of the bag we can’t even catch a whiff of what things were like...
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The myth of a data free trade policy
The border between the USA and Canada, in Washington State In my last post I looked at the USA PATRIOT Act, and at some of the ways in which it exemplifies differences in attitude and approach on...
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Europe Sets Course for Cloud
There’s a perception that cloud computing has become a “mature” technology, a perception shared by few but anticipated by most everyone else with the exception of those trying to preserve their...
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