Government agencies need the cloud

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Government Tech PolicyVictoria has attracted two new digital services agencies to set up operations in the state on the back of the state government’s $85 million plan supporting the growth of internationally competitive and recognised ICT businesses in Victoria.

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) plans to host a free, one-hour webinar to help government agencies meet the Sept.

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Cloud ComputingThe selection by the New South Wales Government of a cloud solution from SAP breaks new ground for the use of cloud services by governments in Australia, according to market analyst firm Ovum, which says it will also be an important “proof point for the efficacy of the cloud services model” as an alternative to more traditional in-house share

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has closed Apps.gov, the once-heralded cloud storefront established in the first months of the Obama Administration by former Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. According to Fierce Government, the GSA said in a statement that it has phased out the storefront that it set up for government agencies to discover and purchase cloud services.

The voices complaining about provisions in the NBN legislation that would enable NBN Co to provide services to government agencies have been many and loud, but according to one expert this is a perfectly reasonable proposition; and one that could create an upheaval among established telecoms providers.

One leading analyst firm has concerns about the way Asia Pacific governments and public sector organisations will go about deploying cloud systems, despite the confidence of decision makers in their internal IT departments to deploy the private cloud environments.

The Federal Government's peak security agency has recommended departments and agencies accept the offer by troubled security vendor RSA for replacement copies of its SecurID keyfob identification tokens, as the fallout over a security break-in to RSA's headquarters continues to be felt in Australia.

Many U.S. government agencies aren't tracking their data centers' capacity and energy use, a new survey says.

Who doesn't stop twice to check out a letter from the Internal Revenue Service delivered in traditional snail mail paper form? Communications from the IRS or other federal agencies -- such as health information from the Centers for Disease Control, or consumer alerts from the Federal Trade Commission, are serious business.