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The Million-Dollar Google Maps API

The U.S. government's Apps.gov Web site provides new visibility into what federal agencies pay for cloud-based applications and commercial software, with offerings from vendors such as Hewlett-Packard, Jive, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com. One of the ...

From JOHN FOLEY, Information Week,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Hewlett-Packard,  Microsoft Corporation,  Salesforce.com Inc

Interop: Cloud Computing's Portability Gotcha

There were a couple "aha" moments for me at Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit. The first was that some companies are already storing hundreds of terabytes of data in the cloud. The second was that it can be a slow and expensive process to move that ...

From JOHN FOLEY, Information Week,  19 Nov 2009

Uncle Sam's $24,425,110 Cloud App

The U.S. government's cloud computing portal, Apps.gov, may be a breakthrough in fast, efficient, and transparent IT acquisition, but that doesn't mean it's cheap. Witness the multimillion-dollar software modules available to government agencies on the ...

From JOHN FOLEY, Information Week,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Vivek Kundra,  General Services Administration,  Amazon.com,  Salesforce.com Inc,  Google Inc.

NASA Space Technologies Go Mainstream

NASA technologies that have recently made their way into the commercial sector include a scheduling system used by hospitals, an object-oriented modeling language for green manufacturing, and microscopic circuits aimed at the 3G cellular market. This ...

From JOHN FOLEY, Information Week,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NASA

Windows 7, U.S.A.

Having made its case for Windows 7 in the business and consumer markets, Microsoft is taking its pitch to the nation's capital. Which raises a question: Would the U.S. government do a better job of running the country using Microsoft's new operating ...

From JOHN FOLEY, Information Week,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Chevy Chase

Government Technologist: Vivek Kundra's Data Center Problem

The number of data centers belonging to the U.S. government has more than doubled in the past 10 years, an expensive and wasteful trend that Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says he wants to stop. At the same time, however, yet another massive, ...

From JOHN FOLEY, Information Week,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Vivek Kundra,  National Security Agency,  Google Inc.,  Amazon.com

Q&A: CIO Ross Philo On 'Post Office' In Your Hand

The scope of the U.S. Postal Service is vast--208 billion pieces of mail delivered last year, 656,000 employees, 221,000 vehicles, 32,700 post offices--and its challenges are in proportion to its scale. The amount of mail handled by the Postal Service ...

From JOHN FOLEY, Information Week,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Halliburton,  Schlumberger N.V.

Amazon Offers MySQL Cloud Service, Cuts Server Fees

Amazon is adding a relational database and "high memory" options to Amazon Web Services, and cutting the per-hour fees it charges for Linux and Windows servers on its popular Elastic Compute Cloud. The moves come a few weeks in advance of Microsoft's ...

From JOHN FOLEY, Information Week,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Uncle Sam Mulls The Move To Windows 7

Now that Microsoft has released Windows 7, government agencies face a decision. Do they deploy Microsoft's new operating system? And, if so, when? Of federal IT managers with plans to move to Windows 7, 60% plan to make the move in six months or more. ...

From JOHN FOLEY, Information Week,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Government Technologist: Energy's $32 Million Cloud Experiment

The Department of Energy has disclosed plans to spend $32 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money testing the feasibility of cloud computing as a "cost-effective and energy-efficient" approach to scientific computing. At that price, the ...

From JOHN FOLEY, Information Week,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Vivek Kundra,  Intel,  Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Harvard Medical School

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