U.S. Enlists Facebook Vet as IT Chief
Stung by a series of high-profile IT foul-ups related to implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the roll out of the healthcare.gov web site, the Obama administration has ...Full Article
EMC Expands Open Source Collaboration
When the Cloud Foundry Foundation was launched last December, the open platform-as-a-service proponent also rolled out a new approach to open source development called "Dojo." The idea was to ...Full Article
Cloud TV, Anyone?
There has been plenty of hype around the concept of smashing the old cable and satellite TV models via video streaming and other services. Just this week, word leaked ...Full Article
Google’s Roster of Cloud Interconnect Providers Grows
Google Cloud Platform has added another service provider, Global Capacity, to its list of carrier interconnect providers as the roll out of enterprise hybrid cloud architectures gathers momentum. Chicago-based ...Full Article
HP Gains U.S. Approval for Software Security Tool
Hewlett-Packard joins a growing list of commercial cloud vendors authorized to provide cloud services to the federal government, becoming the first to offer a security software tool. HP claimed ...Full Article
Banks Pursue Mixed Cloud Strategy
Much of the financial sector is still trying to come up with a cloud migration strategy, but those businesses attempting to implement one are leveraging both private and public ...Full Article
Spy Agency Adding Capabilities to its AWS Cloud
The CIA is preparing to rollout a classified version of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace to support the U.S. intelligence apparatus as it puts the finishing touches on ...Full Article
CIA Embraces Cloudera Data Hub
As federal cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) readies its commercial cloud service for the CIA, other vendors are lining up to supply the analytical and other tools needed ...Full Article
Google Outage Traced to Network Glitch
Google has tentatively traced the cause of a roughly two-hour global cloud outage to an internal software issue related to its virtual network traffic routing. The Google Compute Engine ...Full Article
VMware Joins with Carpathia to Gain U.S. Cloud Approval
Add VMware and well-connected partner Carpathia, the hybrid cloud services specialist with extensive government hosting contracts, to the growing list of vendors authorized to provide cloud services to federal ...Full Article