On December 8 Microsoft announced that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) would move 120,000 users to Microsoft Online Services’ Business Productivity Online Suite, and more specifically BPOS-F, the dedicated infrastructure available to US federal government clients which recently received the authorization to operate (ATO) according to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Google'
Microsoft Returns Fire in Federal Cloud Battle
by Andrea Di Maio | December 9, 2010 | 4 Comments
Google Wins GSA Email Contract: The Battle for Government Clouds Continues
by Andrea Di Maio | December 2, 2010 | 5 Comments
On December 1, the General Services Administration announced that it awarded a 6.7 million $ contract to Unisys, partnering with Google, Tempus Nova and Acumen Solutions, to provide email and collaboration services for the next 5 years. In the announcement, GSA highlights that this is expected to 50% savings over the previous solution, and proudly [...]
Government and the Battle of the Clouds
by Andrea Di Maio | October 26, 2010 | 2 Comments
Last week there has been a number of interesting events concerning cloud computing and government. It all started with the news that the State of California has awarded a contract for email to Microsoft, followed by the long-awaited list of IaaS vendors selected by GSA after 16 months and two RFQs, and was concluded by [...]
When Government Clouds Become Stormy
by Andrea Di Maio | July 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
Those who have been watching with interest the largest and highest-profile deployment of cloud-based email in a government organization will have welcomed recent news about difficulties that Google is encountering in the city of Los Angeles with mixed feelings. As reported here and here, the migration from Novell to Google Gmail was planned to be [...]
The far-reaching consequences of Google anti-trust and privacy cases on open government and cloud
by Andrea Di Maio | February 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
Over the last few days, Google has been targeted by authorities in Europe (namely European Commission and Italian Justice) on topics ranging from responsibility for user-generated content that was infringing privacy and copyright laws to anti-competitive practices in ranking search results. As I am not a lawyer I will stay away from any opinion about [...]
Category: cloud open government data Tags: Google, government 2.0, Microsoft
Ask Five Vendors Your Questions About Government and Cloud Computing
by Andrea Di Maio | October 12, 2009 | 6 Comments
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 [...]
Category: cloud Tags: Google, Microsoft, salesforce.com
The Boundaries of Cloud Computing: World, Nation or Jurisdiction?
by Andrea Di Maio | October 2, 2009 | 3 Comments
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 [...]
Category: cloud Tags: Google, private cloud
Vendors Catch the Apps.gov Wind
by Andrea Di Maio | September 16, 2009 | 3 Comments
(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 [...]
Category: cloud Tags: Apps.gov, Google, salesforce.com
The Geopolitics of Cloud Computing
by Andrea Di Maio | August 17, 2009 | 3 Comments
Like most highly hyped technology topics, also cloud computing is raising increasing political attention. This is already clear for the U.S: Federal Government where many people at OMB and GSA push the idea of cloud computing as a cure for various IT diseases. But this is happening also at the state and local level. Two [...]
An Inconvenient Thought About Google and Europe
by Andrea Di Maio | August 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week I read an interesting exchange between David Davis, former UK shadow home secretary, and Google about whether Google Health and the likes would be a good idea or not to store patient records in the UK, something I mentioned in a previous blog post. When politicians look into private solutions to storing citizen [...]
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Category: e-government Tags: EU, Google, health
