On The Frontlines: GovCloud and Cybersecurity

My friends at Trezza Media recently published a couple of great online documents on GovCloud and Cyber. Your should especially check out the "Cloud Chopping Made Easy" by David McClure .....

and Jim Flyzik's viewpoint on building trust in cyberspace.

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GovCloud Is Now For Real !!

On Friday July 1, Infrastructure-as-a-Services for the US federal government became a reality with Authority to Operate (ATO) approval for the following vendors:

Web Hosting

• CGI Federal
• Computer Literacy World
• Eyak Technology
• Computer Technologies Consultant
• Savvis Federal Systems

Virtual Machine

• Autonomic Resources
• Carahsoft Technology Corp
• CGI Federal
• Computer Literacy World
• AT&T
• Eyak Technology
• General Dynamics information Technology
• Verizon Federal
• Computer Technologies Consultant
• Savvis Federal

Storage

• Apptis
• Computer Literacy World
• AT&T
• Eyak Technology
• Insight Public Sector, Inc
• Computer Technologies Consultant

Finally, after a nearly two year process, which I announced on Cloud Musings on July 31, 2009, Vivek Kundra's vision of government cloud computing will now be put to the test!!

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