In October last year, Unisphere Research released “Privatizing the Cloud: 2010 IOUG Survey on Cloud Computing”. In light of this past weekend’s Amazon public cloud service interruption, its worth citing one of the study’s key findings: “Adoption of private cloud solutions for IT workload processing or infrastructure is outpacing use of public platform service providers. [...]

The recent exposure of hundreds of thousands of government documents by WikiLeaks points to the lack of both adequate procedures and sufficient deployment of automated technology to secure data from abuses by so-called “authorized users.” Currently, the government has arrested and charged Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is suspected of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks. [...]

As we prepare for GOSCON this year, there are a number of key topics that come to mind. When one thinks about “Government” today, undoubtedly we hear discussions around cuts in government services; the need to raise taxes; stopping or reducing deficit spending and the general trend of doing more with less. This is not [...]