Microsoft releases public beta of Office 365 cloud suite
Enterprise edition among the versions available for testing.
'Culture of reuse' critical to modernizing old applications
Modernizing old applications could free a lot of money that is sunk into operations and maintenance, write two executives at Unisys Federal Systems.
Without architecture, cloud is a house of cards
Agencies moving applications to the cloud need sound architectures and service-oriented principles, government and industry experts say.
4 months later, education sites remain hacked
A security researcher recently found 68 hijacked domains that direct visitors to phony online stores, a problem the researcher first reported in January.
Texas comptroller exposes personal data on millions
Unencrypted data was left exposed in the office of the Texas Comptroller for more than a year.
In Google-Microsoft dustup, what does 'FISMA-certified' mean?
A recent dispute over whether Google Apps for Government is properly authorized has been clouded by term "FISMA certified." But it’s debatable whether there is any such thing.
4 agency apps highlight the power of mobile tech
Agencies are beginning to tailor public information and services to mobile users in new and exciting ways, and these four applications are just the beginning.
First preview of IE 10 is here
Microsoft has debuted the first platform preview of IE 10, just four weeks after the final version of Internet Explorer 9 was released.
Asia’s pool of IPv4 addresses is nearly dry
APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region, reached its last bundle of IPv4 addresses and now begins rationing the remaining supply. Adoption of IPv6 is the only alternative to exhaustion.
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.
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