No lie: GSA backs Google on FISMA certification
The General Services Administration says its FISMA certification for Google's Apps for Government "remains intact" during review.
NIST Digital Archives include a few mysteries
The library and museum of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has launched the NIST Digital Archives to make the agency's history and research available to the online world, and perhaps identify some of its artifacts.
SP1 for Office for Mac due soon, while other users have to wait
Microsoft is readying the delivery of Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in mid-summer, while Office for Mac 2011 users will get it later in April.
Did Google lie about Apps for Government's FISMA certification?
Microsoft cites a Justice Department brief in claiming Google's government product isn't certified; Google says it's more secure than the version that is certified.
How standards could get cloud out of the 1970s
NIST is set to release a road map to establishing standards for cloud infrastructures, which Vint Cerf says are about where the Internet was in 1973.
How smart can telematics make a car?
Microsoft and the Toyota Motor Co., who have worked together on various deals over the last 10 years, are now embarking on a new partnership on car telematics technologies that will tap into Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
Dell to sink $1B into its cloud push
Dell said April 7 that it plans to spend $1 billion in cloud technology over its next fiscal year.
Next step in the cloud: financial systems
As agencies wrestle with large internal enterprise resource planning systems, more of them will look to get ERP via the cloud, federal CIO Vivek Kundra says.
EPA to move e-mail, help desk, security services to the cloud
Agency's chief information officer looks to establish standards for using external and internal cloud services.
Is IT spending on the rise or not?
In one recent survey, data center managers said their budgets will not be increasing for 2011, while a second study points to rising overall IT spending budgets.
The gig is up for Windows XP, Office 2003
IT organizations worldwide likely can't escape "the big migration," which means having to upgrade from Windows XP and Office 2003, according to Gartner.
Need data fast in the battlespace? Cloud has it covered.
Cloud computing has revolutionized how the federal government stores and accesses data, but now the Army is taking it all the way to Afghanistan.
At last, a solid definition of what a cloud looks like
NIST is set to release its Cloud Computing Reference Architecture, which represents a milestone in developing online government services.
Attackers find old vulnerabilities are still the best
Despite a reduction in the number of new vulnerabilities being reported, attackers still find plenty of weaknesses to exploit, according to a new report from HP.
IEEE launches effort to bring standards to the cloud
Two working groups' focus is on helping organizations build standards-based cloud products and promote inter-cloud interoperability among service providers.
Army hits a few hurdles in move to enterprise e-mail system
A top Army official details some of the exact steps the service is taking to move and restructure the e-mail accounts of more than 1.5 million users as part of the service's continuing enterprise e-mail initiative.
Steelhead appliance can cut latency out of the cloud
The Steelhead appliance from Riverbed Technology uses wide-area network optimization techniques to reduce or eliminate the nagging problem of latency in the cloud.
Mass-injection attack (yawn) infects 1.5 million Web pages
The LizaMoon mass SQL injection, which is reported to have infected 1.5 million Web pages, is not as bad as the raw numbers indicate, researchers say. It's a "run of the mill" attack that is already protected against.
Digital certificate hack reveals threat to U.S. government websites
Security experts say the attack may have been orchestrated by the Iranian government to track and shut down dissidents, and that certificate threat has become a favored tactic of foreign governments.
In new cyber battle, info is the goal, 'stupid' is an enemy
Data and computing power have become so mobile that cybersecurity must focus on protecting information rather than infrastructure, government and industry officials say.
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