"The technical and security needs of our government customers are very
specialized, and having a senior resource focused on IT and the cloud in this
sector is a major competitive differentiator for RightNow," said Laef Olson,
CIO of RightNow, as he announced the promotion of RightNow's own Pete
Stoneberg to the new position of Deputy CIO, Government Cloud, and VP of
Cloud Delivery.
Stoneberg’s role will be to provide the vision and day-to-day leadership
for the RightNow CX Government Cloud platform and solution for Federal and
Department of Defense (DoD) commands, engaging with RightNow’s public
sector customer base as a senior solution architect and champion of
RightNow’s cloud capabilities. He will also be instrumental in rolling out
best practices to RightNow’s government customers, helping them to
seamlessly move to and extend the cloud computing model to multi... (more)
Not only does the U.S. government implement top security standards for many
U.S. corporations, it is also held to the highest degree of security and
expected to be virtually indestructible. Thus, government agencies must
ensure they have a solid security foundation of backend IT controls, and
auditing is critical to an institution's overall security infrastructure.
"With recent high-profile data breaches, firewalls and end-point security
controls aren't enough anymore," notes Philip Liebermam, Founder & President
of Lieberman Software, who will be giving a breakout session entitle... (more)
"Cloud Computing is two things: encapsulation and abstraction," noted Barry X
Lynn, Chairman and CEO of 3Tera, at the First Annual Government IT Conference
& Expo. That is the main thing to remember he emphasized.
There are three questions you should ask about Cloud Computing: What is Cloud
Computing? Why do we need Cloud Computing? How should we use Cloud Computing?
What is Cloud Computing? There are numerous definitions, Lynn noted. After
providing several definitions of Cloud Computing, including Wikipedia's,
Gartner Group's, and the U.S. State Department of Commerce, he then ... (more)
Kevin Jackson Joins SYS-CON's GovITExpo as Tech Chair
I am humbled and more than pleased to serve as the Technical Chair of
SYS-CON’s 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com.
To highlight the importance of this conference, I only need to repeat the
guiding principles driving President Obama’s technology agenda:
Innovation in the Economy: Drive Economic Growth and Solve National Problems
By Deploying a 21st Century Information Infrastructure
- The President believes that modernized infrastructure is a necessary part
of the foundation for long term economic stabil... (more)
A British man charged with breaking into 97 computers belonging to NASA, the
U.S. Department of Defense and several branches of the U.S. military soon
after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is to be extradited to the USA to
stand trial, according to reports from the UK this morning. Gary McKinnon
lost an appeal in the British High Court to have the extradition order
stayed.
In a 41-page ruling Judge Stanley Burnton ruled that extradition was "a
lawful and proportionate response to his offending."
An Asperger's Syndrome sufferer, McKinnon may decide to appeal to the UK's
Hous... (more)
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