Friday Cloud News Roundup
Cloud Technology Sought By Department of Agriculture
In compliance with the “Cloud First” policy, the Department of Agriculture, particularly, the Farm Service Agency (FSA) is exploring options for a pilot project that would use a commercial, web-based system of image collection, data hosting, service provisioning and other related services – or otherwise called, geospatial imagery – to replace its current infrastructure.
This IT modernization program started a few years ago when the agency transitioned 120,000 of its employees and contractors to cloud-based email services. With this move, the department hopes to reduce costs and find new IT efficiencies.
Find out more on how this agency intends to leverage on cloud technology to improve operations, visit InformationWeek now.
Facebook Sign-on for Government Services
The current administration has released a new mandate making Facebook a portal for government access.
Effective immediately, some agencies will be using Facebook exclusively for sign-on access to government services. These agencies include:
- Social security administration
- Veteran’s administration
- Department of Treasury
According to White House spokesperson Avrile Powason, this will save agencies an estimated $1.3 Billion annually while creating thousands of jobs in the private sector.
Powason further added, “If you don’t have a Facebook account, you’re not someone who needs online access to government services.”
To find out more details on this mandate, read the full article on Sys-con.
Cloud Analytics Summit 2012
Decision-makers can now look forward to a summit where they can learn how to use cloud solutions to transform Big Data into Business Intelligence with the use of Data Integration.
The event will be happening on April 25, 2012 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Find out how you can harness “Big Data” and how you can effectively integrate your organization’s systems and applications into a more productive resource, visit TheWHIR for event details or register at www.CloudAnalyticsSummit.com.
Cloud Management Summit 2012
Another cloud technology event will be help on November 5, 2012 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California.
In the Cloud Management Summit, some of the following topics will be discussed:
- Application management
- Access control
- Performance management
Find out the full scope of the summit and see how you can maximize the power of the cloud. Visit TheWHIR now for more details or register at www.CloudManagementSummit.com
Cloud Computing Trends
Cloud computing has really been making waves not only within the United States but as well as the rest of the world as experts predict that it will generate 14 million jobs as it becomes a $150Billion market by 2013.
While cloud computing is making these effects on some aspects in technology, some trends are being created:
- Personal cloud will replace personal computer
- Executives demand reliable cloud data security
- Growth of mobile cloud
This was shared in an article in Cloudtweaks, and the main idea behind this is that as more companies are seeing the benefit of cloud computing for their business processes and data management, the world will be seeing much more of cloud adoption in the information infrastructure of companies.
Red Hat to Sponsor Open Cloud Conference
The Open Cloud Conference to be held on April 30 – May 3, 2012 at Sunny Vale California will be hosted by the world’s leading provider of Open Source Solutions, Red Hat. The company, being a sponsor of the event, will be holding a developer workshop focused on:
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Platform as a Service
- Mobile and java development in the cloud
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