Perhaps you saw the recent news from Salesforce.com that its Government Cloud has received approval under FedRAMP guidelines to provide platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) for federal agencies.
But then you asked yourself: Just what the heck is FedRAMP?
Like many government programs, it’s not always easy to understand.…
Despite the federal “Cloud First” mandate, federal agencies are slow to adopt cloud services solutions, according to a recent Accenture Federal Services and Government Business Council report. Only 10% of agencies have migrated more than one-half of their IT portfolios to the cloud.
The report, “The Road Ahead: 3…
Despite ever-rising cloud adoption rates, some companies have been reluctant to aggressively move applications to the cloud. Security – or the fear of security breaches – is largely to blame.
CIOs, cloud security is within reach, and here are three reasons why.
CIO enlightenment
CIOs are realizing…
Remember mainframe computers? Named for the large metal frames they were originally housed in, these data processing systems are still in use today, though they now consist of networked workstations and servers instead of room-sized, walk-in computers.
For more than 100 years, the federal government has had an interest in…