Will Government Alter The Cloud SLA Game?
One of the key parameters in the push to accelerate enterprise cloud adoption is the SLA (Service Level Agreements). It is an important requirement before enterprises can even think of jumping into the cloud. After a slow start, companies are coming out with SLAs for their services but it is still a messy affair with […]
Where is YOUR data?
I posted recently about the increasingly positive news that cloud email providers have been gearing – large scale rollouts, more consumer acceptance and adoption by enterprise all point to a growing validity of the model. My post, and some conversations I’d been having prior to it, kicked off a storm of correspondence including this email […]
UK Government To Have Countrywide Cloud Infrastructure
According to Reuven Cohen of Enomaly, UK Govt. is planning to release a countrywide Cloud Infrastructure. We, here at Cloud Ave, are a strong advocate of the use of Cloud Computing to make the Government more agile and efficient. You can check out the following posts on the topic. Riffing on the SaaS for the […]
VMware Invests In Terramark
We covered the news of USA.Gov moving to Terramark enterprise cloud system here at Cloud Ave sometime back. We noted that their enterprise cloud is pretty much suited for Government purposes because of their compliance with various regulatory requirements. The distributed grid architecture of the enterprise cloud offers the necessary redundancy, scalability and flexibility needed […]
Stop the Paper Madness
Tax Day is less than two weeks away. This year the IRS (The US Tax Agency) went out of their way to make sure I am doing things right: months ago they sent me a thick envelope with all the forms they thought I would need to use, including: form 1040-ES/V – payment vouchers for […]
USA.Gov Moving To Clouds
Image via Wikipedia When Barack Obama was elected as President of United States, I predicted that his administration would tap into Cloud Computing for governance. Soon Obama team was talking about moving the Government to Clouds. In fact, there was even “bipartisan” support for the idea. It only make sense to move the government to […]
More Support For Putting Government On The Clouds
Image via CrunchBase When Mr. Obama was elected as President of United States, we noted that he could tap into the Clouds to make government efficient and, soon, this prediction turned out to be true. Now, David Kralik, Internet Strategy Director for a non partisan group headed by former Republican speaker Newt Gingrich, also pushes […]
Obama Team Talks About Putting Govt. On The Clouds
Image via Wikipedia When Barack Obama was elected to Presidency in November, I posted an article here at Cloud Avenue titled Barack Obama and Cloud Computing. In that article, I interpreted Barack Obama’s technology policy and said the following. Opening up government to its citizens and bringing the government to 21st century: In other words, […]
Cloud Vendors Should Act Now
The Star Tribune from Minneapolis-St. Paul carried an article, few days back, on the issues related to keeping the data on the clouds. The author clearly identifies the issues we face in the society as we move further into the adoption of cloud computing technologies The danger is less that the cloud will be a Wild West than that […]
