Bill Vass, President of Sun Microsystems Federal
Virtualization, cloud computing, thin clients, open-source software and service-oriented architectures are among the technolgies government IT leaders will need to address this year, according to Sun's Bill Vass.
Teresa Carlson, Microsoft's U.S. federal government unit
Agencies could take advantage of business analytics and Web 2.0 technolgies in 2009, says Teresa Carlson, vice president of Microsoft's U.S. federal government unit.
Venkatapathi Puvvada, Chief Technology Officer, Unisys
Unisys CTO Venkatapathi Puvvada expects agencies to be moving towward greater use of cloud computing, virtualization, green computing and Web 2.0 methods of information sharing.
The evolution of SOA
SOA remains the best way to build enterprise applications, data mashups and mobile applications.
The sole of dissent
An Iraqi journalist’s shoe-throwing attack on President George W. Bush inspires several online games.
Meet the new year, same as the old year
Predictions for information technology in the new year unfortunately are looking a lot like those from the old year, if not worse.
5 technology waves to ride in 2009
Agencies this year will likely find themselves following five Technology trends that can save energy and reduce costs, make the most of Web 2.0 capabilities, manage authentication, provide layered IT defenses, and make crossagency systems a reality.
Dave Wennergren, Defense Department Deputy CIO
Defense Deupty CIO Dave Wennergren says government will need to tackle Web 2.0 collaboration technologies and cloud computing, and take proactive steps toward secure information sharing in 2009.
Ed Meagher, SRA International
Ed Meagher, former deputy CIO of the Interior Department, says consolidation and security of networks lead the list of key concerns for the CIO/CTO commpunity.
Andy Blumenthal, ATF
Andy Blumenthal, chief technology officer of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, says Web 2.0 technologies, mobile technologiers and cloud computing are among the top IT issues for agencies in 2009.
Online textbook project is an educational experience
The leaders of Virginia’s physics Flexbook project are learning valuable lessons about producing an online textbook.
Ferret out weak PKI certificates
Firefox add-on checks for MD5 hashes.
'Pay-as-you-go' computing from Microsoft
Microsoft's metered model would deliver computer resources and software to users based on their particular needs of the moment.
Ethernet gets twisted
Mellanox's twisted-pair 10GBase-T controller could fuse application and storage networks.
Livermore Lab pioneers debugging tool
New tool enables researchers to pinpoint a needling problem in a haystack of processors.
StratML digests Obama administration's agenda
The working group for the Strategic Markup Language has rendered the Obama-Biden agenda for the upcoming administration into an Extensible Markup Language-based format.
Emergency patch released for Internet Explorer exploit
Microsoft plugs a widely discussed and "critical" vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
GSA awards first contract for TIC service on Networx
GSA offers service to decrease the number of government connections to the Internet.
W3C advances Web accessibility guidelines
The World Wide Web Consortium has updated its recommendations for designing Web pages so they can easily accessed by those with disabilities.
Microsoft offers workaround for IE7 flaw
Software maker does not plan to issue a fix for Internet Explorer 7 exploit until sometime next year.
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