Gouvernement US. US - Amazon Web Services to support the Federal Government. In the past week both Vivek Kundra, the U.S.
CIO, and Casey Coleman, the CIO of the GSA, have made very strong statements in supporting the use of cloud computing to power Federal programs. A good example is today's announcement about apps.gov. In conversations with Vivek and Casey, I am struck every time by how much their observations that Federal CIOs are focused too much on infrastructure issues are similar to the observations within Amazon a number of years ago that motivated us to develop the AWS Infrastructure services. At that time, Amazon engineering teams focused more than 70% of their work effort on keeping their infrastructure efficient, scalable and reliable, which were important, but non-differentiating tasks.
The development of the Infrastructure Services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) abstracted the "muck" away from our teams so that they could focus on delivering true value for Amazon customers. US Apps.Gov. Register | Log In 0 Items in Cart {*style:<b> Contact Us </b>*} | | Business Apps Analytics EDI/XML translation Operating Systems Asset management PR and marketing Business intelligence Educational and training Publishing Business management Electronic commerce & auction tools Security Business processes Engineering Simulation Financial Sourcing and auctions Communications Geographic info Surveys Configuration management Knowledge management Tracking and monitoring tools Dashboard Media Travel Data management Medical Utilities Design Network applications Productivity Apps Brainstorming / mind mapping Office tools and suites Workflow Collaboration, meetings, conferencing Project management, scheduling Document and content management Text editing Cloud IT Services IAAS-Cloud Storage IAAS-Virtual Machines IAAS-Web Hosting Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Video transcript » Home | Register | Order History/Status | Cloud FAQs | Vendor FAQs | Contact Us This is a U.S.
CIO Council. Cheaper processors, faster networks, and the rise of mobile devices are driving innovation faster than ever before.
Cloud computing is a manifestation and core enabler of this transformation. Just as the Internet has led to the creation of new business models unfathomable 20 years ago, cloud computing will disrupt and reshape entire industries in unforeseen ways. The Federal Government’s responsibility is to achieve the significant cost, agility and innovation benefits of cloud computing as quickly as possible. The Government’s current IT environment is characterized by low asset utilization, a fragmented demand for resources, duplicative systems, environments which are difficult to manage, and long procurement lead times. These inefficiencies negatively impact the Federal Government’s ability to serve the American public.
Cloud computing has the potential to play a major part in addressing these inefficiencies and improving government service delivery. Read the Latest Resources. US: Vivek Kundra "Streaming at 1:00: In the Cloud" Posted by Vivek Kundra on September 15, 2009 at 12:09 PM EDT Today, I am excited to announce that we have launched Apps.gov to help continue the President’s initiative to lower the cost of government operations while driving innovation within government.
I'll be discussing this in a speech at the NASA Ames Research Center at 1:00 EDT - watch the speech live here [UPDATE: This event has now concluded]. Apps.gov is an online storefront for federal agencies to quickly browse and purchase cloud-based IT services, for productivity, collaboration, and efficiency. Cloud computing is the next generation of IT in which data and applications will be housed centrally and accessible anywhere and anytime by a various devices (this is opposed to the current model where applications and most data is housed on individual devices).
The federal government spends over $75 billion annually on information technology (IT). Vivek Kundra is the U.S. US Kevin Jackson GovGloud II (podcast) How To Build A Government Cloud - Government - Cloud/SaaS - As federal agencies race to meet OMB's 'cloud first' mandate, they must adapt the cloud model to the idiosyncrasies of government.
The federal government’s cloud computing strategy reached a milestone recently when the Department of Homeland Security became the first federal agency to sign up for infrastructure as a service through the General Services Administration. But the path there wasn’t fast or easy, or anything like what was first envisioned. Rewind to September 2009, when Vivek Kundra, the federal CIO at the time, announced the launch of Apps.gov, a GSA-operated site that would serve as an apps store where agencies could subscribe to a range of cloud services with point-and-click ease.
Some apps--easy stuff like personal productivity tools--became available quickly. For example, government employees with the proper credentials can subscribe to Microsoft Exchange for $16.82 per month with USA.Net, a provider of hosted email services. Not a day goes by without some development.