Posts Tagged: cloud

Form Your XaaS Strategy

The following blog post is an excerpt from a recent GovLoop resource: Your Guide to Using Everything-as-a-Service. In the guide, we explore how agencies can maximize the benefits of cloud technology by creating a holistic everything-as-a-service (XaaS) strategy. Few doubt the advantages, and even the inevitably, of the transition of government IT services to the cloud.Read… Read more »

Back to The Lab Again

I went back to Lawrence Livermore national laboratory again this week and this time I got to get a tour of the National Ignition Facility…aka the most powerful laser on earth. The simple scale of the facility is awe inspiring as is the science. We are talking about a laser capable of replicating the birthRead… Read more »

The Cloud: Information Workers’ Newest Best Friend

Imagine a world where every individual in every organization on any device can run any operating system. Seems unlikely, right? Well, that far-stretched world is here, the one we’re currently living in, and in the recent GovLoop online training, “The Real Journey to the Cloud,” expert panelists discussed the five actors of the cloud and their cross-cuttingRead… Read more »

Traps to Avoid When Implementing Cloud

The following blog post is an excerpt from a recent GovLoop resource: Your Guide to Using Everything-as-a-Service. In the guide, we explore how agencies can maximize the benefits of cloud technology by creating a holistic everything-as-a-service (XaaS) strategy. An interview with Mike Younkers, Director of U.S. Federal Systems Engineering at Cisco Across government, agencies are implementingRead… Read more »

XaaS Cloud On The Ground: Insider Perspectives

Cloud computing, ironically, often seems vague, theoretical, and hard to pin down. Like a cloud in nature, it can be hard to wrap our minds around the concept. This month’s DorobekINSIDER LIVE with Chris Dorobek was a virtual training entitled “Get on the Everything-as-a-Service Train”. It featured a panel of experts who have seen cloud’sRead… Read more »

Using Cloud Today… and Tomorrow

The following blog post is an excerpt from a recent GovLoop resource: Your Guide to Using Everything-as-a-Service. In the guide, we explore how agencies can maximize the benefits of cloud technology by creating a holistic everything-as-a-service (XaaS) strategy. An interview with Chris O’Connell, Vice President of Federal at Appian Today, most public sector organizations have begunRead… Read more »

Maximize Your Cloud Potential

The following blog post is an excerpt from a recent GovLoop resource: Your Guide to Using Everything-as-a-Service. In the guide, we explore how agencies can maximize the benefits of cloud technology by creating a holistic everything-as-a-service (XaaS) strategy. The benefits of cloud services are innumerable. Cloud services can: Lower costs by saving on data storage, processing,Read… Read more »

Creating a Single Government Cloud Strategy

The following blog post is an excerpt from a recent GovLoop resource: Your Guide to Using Everything-as-a-Service. In the guide, we explore how agencies can maximize the benefits of cloud technology by creating a holistic everything-as-a-service (XaaS) strategy. An interview with Chris Niehaus, Senior Director of Microsoft’s National Cloud Computing Program Cloud is often construed asRead… Read more »

Planning Before, During, and After Cloud Deployment

The following blog post is an excerpt from a recent GovLoop resource: Your Guide to Using Everything-as-a-Service. In the guide, we explore how agencies can maximize the benefits of cloud technology by creating a holistic everything-as-a-service (XaaS) strategy. An interview with Rob Davies, Vice President of On-Demand at ViON Government agencies are experts in planning. Budgets,Read… Read more »