To quote one of my favorite thinkers, @ChuckHollis, who tweeted recently “IT needs to get good at marketing, as they’re competing with Service Providers who do it.”  As a tech marketer, I couldn’t agree more.   If Government IT departments don’t learn how to market their services, they will most assuredly go out of business. ...

Anyone who makes their living in Public Sector IT knows the tech industry runs on buzz words. Take “Cloud”, for example. How many times have you read or written that word in the past 24 months?  For me, I’d have to say > 1,000! (Note to self: Make some time for pleasure reading!) Kidding aside, ...

It’s difficult to go anywhere today without a CCTV camera picking up your movement and storing these images for the future. Advancements in DNA and positive identification are such that crimes committed over 30 years ago are being solved as technology provides the means to identify the previously anonymous. Across the US and the diverse ...

Just like I did for FISMA, I wanted to review the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Security Controls (FedRAMP), and provide you with my view of it. As stated on GSA’s website, FedRAMP is “a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. ...

As I think about the future of Cloud computing, EMC’s tightly integrated solutions with VMware have created a great operational strategy for leveraging advanced management, monitoring and charge back products. EMC’s “Journey to the Cloud” has three unique phases:  1. The initial build out of utilizing virtualization, creating flexibility and elasticity within an IT infrastructure. ...