Why IBM's Watson is good news for government
Watson's pipelined, pragmatic process demonstrated significant innovations that overcame the type of grand challenges faced every day by the government IT community.
Microsoft strikes 14 new cloud services deals with state, local organizations
Fourteen state and local government agencies signed deals for cloud-based IT services with the software firm. Altogether, more than 3 million government employees now use its cloud offerings.
Microsoft exec: Policy haste makes IT waste (like, using Google Apps)
Public-sector lead Curt Kolcun calls for taking a closer look at government IT decisions made in a time of rapid industry change.
Data ownership in the cloud: Get it in writing
Cloud computing requires an evolution in thinking on the part of agency managers and cloud providers on issues including acquisition and data ownership, a panel of CIOs representing defense and civilian agencies said.
Kundra: 25 percent of IT spending should to go to the cloud
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's Federal Cloud Computing Strategy calls for 25 percent of federal IT spending to go to the cloud, with data center consolidation helping to pay for it.
Watson's 'Jeopardy!' win impressive, but was it set up to win?
The performance by IBM's Watson on "Jeopardy!" wasn’t nearly as impressive as it seemed, GCN Lab Director John Breeden II writes.
Victory in hand, IBM's Watson heads to medical school
IBM partners with Nuance Communications and a pair of medical schools for research on health care analytics.
Students put Google's Cr-48 laptops to the test
Google delivered a truckload of free Cr-48 laptops to Astoria High School in Astoria, Ore., earlier this month as part of its Chrome operating system (OS) pilot program.
Crowdsourcing: Government by the people?
Some state and municipal governments around the country are bringing people into the decision-making process with crowdsourcing sites.
New standard would give seal of approval to networking equipment
Underwriters Laboratories begins assessing networking equipment for performance against security threats to meet requirements of a new Texas law requiring certification of networking products.
What's missing from cloud security
Cloud computing is moving from early adoption to an operational phase, but it still must struggle to stay ahead of security concerns, says Jim Reavis of the Cloud Security Alliance.
Are the Internet's 'Wild West' days near an end?
Executives from Microsoft and RSA are proposing collective schemes with centralized authority for ensuring trust in an increasingly complex Internet.
SSA data center approaching 'catastrophic failure'
Tangled telecommunications and electrical cables underneath the data center floor, an out-dated HVAC system, clogged pipes and an antiquated uninterruptible power system have put the SSA's National Computer Center on thin ice.
Cyber war dominates the landscape at RSA conference
With the establishment of the U.S. Cyber Command and the emergence of WikiLeaks wikiwars, the new domain in warfare overtakes cloud computing as this year’s hot security topic.
Administration releases federal cloud strategy
Stressing the federal government's commitment to the cloud, under a new strategy agencies will need to evaluate cloud computing options before making any new investments.
Energy aims to retake supercomputing lead from China
The Energy Department's next supercomputer, the IBM-built Mira, will greatly outperform the current generation of machines, and is expected to surpass China's current leader.
Copy, paste...and presto, open government data makes sense
An online mapping site developed by the FCC and FortiusOne lets users quickly put spreadsheet data into perspective.
VMware debuts connector for hybrid clouds
In a move key to bridging public and private clouds based on its virtual machines, VMware this week said it will release software that ties internal vSphere VMs to service providers' cloud platforms.
Many overseas voters still can't cast a ballot, study finds
The use of online technology for the request and delivery of blank ballots helped to make modest improvements for military and overseas voters in the 2010 election, but many problems remain, according to a post-election survey by the Overseas Vote Foundation.
Seattle's single sign-on system grants easy access to city services
MySeattle.gov uses a single sign-on system to give users access to the breadth of city services and lets them customize their own home pages with the services they want to use.
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