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Will Government Alter The Cloud SLA Game?

Will Government Alter The Cloud SLA Game?

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 6, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged cloud computing, Government, sla, US

Where is YOUR data?

Where is YOUR data?

By Ben Kepes on July 30, 2009

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 […]

Posted in General, Security, Strategy | Tagged e2con, google, Government, jurisdiction, rfp | 3 Responses

UK Government To Have Countrywide Cloud Infrastructure

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 16, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged cloud computing, Government, public clouds, UK Government

VMware Invests In Terramark

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 26, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged cloud computing, enterprises, Government, terramark, vmware

Stop the Paper Madness

Stop the Paper Madness

By Zoli Erdos on April 3, 2009

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 […]

Posted in General | Tagged e-government, environment, Government, irs, junk mail, paper waste, taxes, w2e, waste | 1 Response

USA.Gov Moving To Clouds

USA.Gov Moving To Clouds

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 23, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Analysis, Strategy | Tagged cloud computing, Government, terramark, usa.gov | 2 Responses

More Support For Putting Government On The Clouds

More Support For Putting Government On The Clouds

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 5, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged cloud computing, gingrich, Government, obama, open government, tco | 1 Response

Obama Team Talks About Putting Govt. On The Clouds

Obama Team Talks About Putting Govt. On The Clouds

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 21, 2009

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, […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged cloud computing, Government, obama, saas | 2 Responses

Cloud Vendors Should Act Now

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 30, 2008

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 […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged cloud computing, compliance, data ownership, Government, governments, laws, privacy, regulations, Security | 1 Response

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