Let’s change gears for this week’s circuit. Chance to step outside the Beltway and look under the hood in the mega-billion dollar state and local IT race. How’s transformation going – what’s fast and who’s furious? […]

Big data is good. Curing cancer. Trapping terrorists. Avoiding Armageddon. […]

There’s been hysteria about the grey tsunami since before I had grey hair. But, today seems Uncle Sam’s IT is really drowning in a digital-drop-out deluge. By all reports, Fed IT execs line up to jump overboard from the USS ITanic. And, it’s not just grey beards – young IT leaders are pulling on life […]

The basis of this idiom is, you get nothing for nothing. Well, I’m going to take a bite out of that one. Next week is Telework Week. And, while the ethics rules are clear about the fact that you can’t buy Feds a fancy lunch, it seems Feds will pocket some nice change from Telework Week. […]

FedRAMP has been around for a while – and there’s a good bit of confusion. You can read the manual – but at 49 pages and growing, it’s not exactly a page turner. There are three flavors of approved FedRAMP CSPs. So far, we think we have 11 cloud service providers – 10 industry and USDA. […]

Between FISMA, Continuous Monitoring, HSPD-12, et al – Feds are adopting a belt-and-suspenders approach to security. And, if that wasn’t enough, Snowden’s taught the Prez about DLP. […]

I’m in the middle. I wore my brother’s hand-me-downs. I had to sit between my brother and sister on road trips. PaaS is the middle child in the Fed cloud family. Stuck between IaaS and SaaS, all too often, he’s overlooked by his Uncle Sam. […]

A picture’s worth a thousand words. What’s it they say about books and covers? […]

Elephants and donkeys play chicken. Sequestration and the shutdown are a vice squeezing D.C. It’s terrible, but what hasn’t been written about this stuff? […]

Don’t mean to rain on the parade, but what hasn’t been said about cloud computing? How about are Federal agencies making any real progress in cloud and are we saving any money? That, and the new Cloud Computing Caucus, are on the menu as Fed cloud leaders and the Hill huddle at the Newseum in […]

I studied English and Economics in school – but I must confess, sometimes I didn’t do all the reading. Sometimes I’d skimp on Joyce and Friedman. Fast forward 25 years, and I’ve learned to do the homework – but aren’t we all looking for a shortcut? For those who want to get Big Smart on […]

That’s it for Summer. Bummer. Sure, Fall’s fun. But then it’s the big W – no, not that W. Even Republicans are relieved he’s not coming back to D.C. So, what do we have to look forward to this Fall? It’s a new Federal year – so farewell to furloughs. Let’s hope Obama and Boehner […]

There was a CIO called Vivek; Who said Fed IT was a wreck; His cloud vision was true; His dashboard was new; Now he’s moving to Harvard – what the heck. Does Vivek’s departure move you to verse? Care to pen your own limerick or even a sonnet? Lost your poetic license? Just let us […]