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Audio: Steven VanRoekel urges innovation despite funding crunch

Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel spoke March 3 about the ways government can deliver value despite constrained budgets during the opening keynote of the FOSE conference in...

VanRoekel unveils 'Future First' concept

"Cloud first" was just the first in a series of first principles to be unleashed on federal information technology, according to Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel, who spoke Oct. 25

DHS CIO touts cloud

The Homeland Security Department has aggressively embraced cloud computing, said DHS Chief Information Officer Richard Spires before an Oct. 6 House panel. The department has identified 12 cloud

State Department official warns of data center consolidation 2.0

Federal agencies are rapidly consolidating data centers and moving programs to the cloud, but one federal official worries brash action could lead to a future riddled with inefficient cloud silos.

CIOs risk recreating data silos in the cloud

If agency CIOs adopt cloud computing technologies in a haphazard way, they run the risk of recreating data silos in the cloud, said a Health and Human Services Department official Aug. 23, while

Federal CIOs launch Cloud First Task Force, tap NIST for standards guidance

The Federal CIO Council stood up the Cloud First Task Force June 24, the next iteration of what was formerly known as the Cloud Computing Advisory Council, a National Institute of Standards and

Q&A with GSA officials on data center consolidation and cloud computing adoption

The General Services Administration hopes to help agencies respond to Office of Management and Budget mandates that call for data center consolidation and the adoption of cloud-computing based

DOL releases RFI on cloud email

The Labor Department released a May 26 request for information soliciting industry feedback over a planned migration by the department of its 21,469 email users into a cloud system. Email is one of

Agencies have identified 78 services for cloud migration, says OMB

Twenty five large federal agencies have identified 78 services suitable for migration to the cloud, according to a document released May 25 by the Office of Management and Budget. The most common

Federal agencies uncertain how to respond to 'cloud first'

Security remains the largest concern to public cloud adoption among government and higher education officials, according to an online survey of 646 information technology professionals. The survey,