Andrea DiMaio

A few days ago I came across a request for proposals issued by the US Air Force Materiel Command to purchase 2,200 Sony Playstation 3 (PS3).
For how surprising this may look like, the  justification is indeed very clear. The Air Force is interested in expanding an earlier pilot where it has been using 300 PS3 [...]

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I spent a good part of yesterday at Gartner Symposium in Orlando talking to government clients, moderating a vendor panel and finally running an analyst-user roundtable, all on the topic of cloud computing.
Two main take-aways for me:

Government clients are confused as to (1) whether vendor offerings really meet their security requirements, (2) which workloads could [...]

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Yesterday, I addressed our audience at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando on cloud computing in government about the possible competition between vendor cloud providers (like Google, Amazon, Terremark, and so forth) and government infrastructure owners (such as NASA Ames, DISA, NBC). I have blogged about this before and I also asked a related question to [...]

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On October 20 at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando I will be moderating Cloud Computing in Government: A Vendor Perspective, a panel with five vendors discussing the relevance and roadmap to cloud computing for government organizations.
Vendors in the panel (in strict alphabetical order) are:

CSC
Google
Microsoft
Salesforce.com
Terremark

Their choice is neither reflective of their position in the market nor [...]

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The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is one of the government organizations in the US that can be or aims to become a private cloud service provider. Their Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) was launched a few months ago to allow on-demand access to infrastructure to develop and test new custom applications.
Now RACE is available [...]

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I have been writing before about the geopolitics of cloud computing (see here and here), and I am planning to write a fully fledged note for Gartner clients. This topic keeps emerging with clients at state, provincial and local level, who expect future IT investments to be directly or indirectly connected to economic recovery, and [...]

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As some of you might know, Gartner is holding its annual Symposium and IT EXPO in Orlando, FL between October 18 and 22, 2009. This year we have a lot of sessions on government IT, covering hot topics such as Web 2.0, Social Media and Cloud Computing.
But the highlight of the event will be a [...]

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In a post a month ago I said that
…the interrelationships between government and cloud service providers will always go well beyond a simple client-provider one. Contentious points in deciding for or against cloud-based solutions will necessarily include elements such as local economic development (do we attract businesses in our jurisdiction? do we create better opportunities [...]

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(UPDATED)
Shortly after the official launch of the GSA cloud storefront Apps.gov, vendors that feature multiple times in the business and productivity application sections of the web site have leveraged their position.
Salesforce.com issued a press release  about its inclusion in Apps.gov, while Google announced Google Public Sector, a directory of existing Google offerings packaged with information [...]

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Yesterday, in a speech given at the NASA Ames Research Center (watch it on YouTube), the US federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced the launch of Apps.gov, the GSA storefront to give federal agencies access to cloud services. This has been in the making for a while and the launch was originally scheduled during the Gov [...]

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