GovIT News Desk offers timely news and reports on the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utilize IT. 
"The technical and security needs of our government customers are very specialized, and having a senior resource focused on IT and the cloud in this sector is a major competitive differentiator for RightNow," said Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow, as he announced the promotion of RightNow's...Jun. 17, 2010 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,727
Now that the Obama administration has pegged cloud computing as the next evolution in government technology, it's important to understand the entire scope of the cloud computing spectrum from storage to security. Scott Ryan, CEO of Asankya, will look at the technology behind cloud acce...
Do Cloud Standards exist? Can we trust them? Are we building our enterprise solutions on mere vapors? Kyle Gabhart of Web Age Solutions will explore these topics and many more in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo).
How can federal agencies achieve security in a shared cloud computing environment? Eric Greenberg, VP of Security & Risk Solutions at Integralis, will clear up FISMA security compliance misconceptions and obstacles to cloud computing in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st A...
As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transforming IT and reducing costs. IT operational costs continue to increase as a percentage of overall IT dollars. In her keynote at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Exp...
Tactical Cloud Computing refers to the use of cloud computing technology and techniques for the support of localized and short-lived information access and processing requirements. This discussion panel at the 1st Annual Government IT Expo on October 6 in Washington, D.C., will explore...
At SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), Barry X Lynn, Chairman and CEO of 3Tera, will present a general session entitled “Cloud Computing - the Next Generation of IT: What, Why and How?” He will also present a breakout session where he will discuss “Public,...
An Open Source SOA Roadmap is a SOA governance stone that kills two items – spaghetti enterprise architectures and endless middleware license fees. Robert J. Williams Jr is Chief Enterprise Architect at Maxworks will demonstrate how in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st An...
How can public and private sector companies leverage the enumerable and quantifiable benefits of the cloud, while maintaining total control over their private and business sensitive data? Terry Woloszyn, CEO/CTO of PerspecSys Inc., will answer this question and more in a breakout sessi...
China Security & Surveillance Technology, Inc. ("CSST" or the "Company") (NYSE: CSR; Nasdaq Dubai: CSR) announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with certain accredited investors at a price at $6.25 per share under its Form S-3 Registration Statement resulting in gros...
How can organizations adopt Cloud-based applications while maintaining total control of their private and sensitive data? John McGoldrick, Director of Sales and Marketing at PerspecSys, will discuss this and more in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT C...
Tactical Cloud Computing is a technology branch referring to the use of cloud computing technology and techniques for the support of localized and short-lived information access and processing requirements. At the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington DC on October 6...
Tighter budgets and increased oversight are driving significant reporting requirements for IT compliance. From security and operations to software audits and virtualization, agencies are under increasing pressure to improve transparency into their IT environments across all technologie...
How can government organizations offer public data sets cost effectively? In his breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), Omer Trajman, Director, Cloud & Virtualization at Vertica, will answer this question and more and show how ...
SOA may be a popular buzzword and talk of actively practicing SOA is spoken of in the same vein as teenage frivolity ("everyone is doing it"). JP Morgenthal, Sr. Principal Analyst with QinetiQ North America's Mission Systems Group, discusses how SOA is actually a delicate balancing act...
What are the linkages of SOA to Cloud, and what is best way to accelerate from SOA into Cloud? These questions will be answered by Eric Marks - founder, president, and CEO of AgilePath Corporation - in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Ex...
Government agencies must ensure they have a solid security foundation of back-end IT controls, and auditing is critical to an institution's overall security infrastructure. Philip Lieberman, founder and president of Lieberman Software, discusses how government agencies address these cr...
February 29, 2008, marked the start of change in the Department of Defense's management of its Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) portfolio. Mark Krzysko, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (ADUSD) for Business Transformation, will speak about what this means for the DoD...
Continuity of Operations Planning has been a priority of governmental and non-governmental organizations for a number of years. What are best practices for managing users' personalized environments when VDI is used for continuing operations? Paul Hahn, Director of Technical Solutions a...
Threat and fraud was once the sole domain of men in trench coats. However, they are now found in areas including employee screening, benefit claims, and identity theft. Marne E. Gordan, a Regulatory Analyst for IBM’s Corporate Security Strategy Group, will explore these topics and brin...
What are the benefits and trade-offs of applying the various virtualization techniques within the cloud? Can cloud computing leverage a myriad of Virtualization technologies? Harry Foxwell of Sun Microsystems Federal will answer these and other questions in a breakout session to be giv...
What challenges should organizations anticipate when shifting to the cloud? What are the current best practices for implementing a secure on-premise and cloud deployment mix? These and other questions will be answered in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government...
What are the linkages of SOA to Cloud, and what is best way to accelerate from SOA into Cloud? These questions will be answered by Eric Marks - founder, president, and CEO of AgilePath Corporation - in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Ex...
What challenges should organizations anticipate when shifting to the cloud? What are the current best practices for implementing a secure on-premise and cloud deployment mix? These and other questions will be answered in a breakout session to be given October 6, 2009, at SYS-CON's 1st ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Web Age Solutions will exhibit at Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) this coming October 6th in Washington, DC. Web Age Solutions is a leading provider of technology mentoring and education to the Fortune 500. Our "Preferred Vendor" ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Naval Khosla, ISL Program Manager for Government Industry Solutions at IBM, will be presenting at the upcoming Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) this coming October 6th in Washington, DC. His session will be entitled “Trusted Ident...
SYS-CON Events announced today that JP Morgenthal, Senior Principal Analyst for QinetiQ North America, will be presenting at the upcoming Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) this coming October 6th in Washington, DC. His session will be entitled “Protect Your Government...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Eric Greenberg, VP of Security & Risk Solutions for Integralis, will be presenting at the upcoming Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) this coming October 6th in Washington, DC. The session will be entitled “Un-Clouding FISMA Securit...
John T. Rettaliata, president of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) for 21 years and member of Dwight D. Eisenhower's National Aeronautics and Space Council, the predecessor to NASA, died on Saturday at the age of 97.
Rettaliata became president of IIT in 1952 at the age of...
