The Army said it expects to complete migration of both classified and unclassified email to an enterprise cloud operated by the Defense Information Systems Agency by April 2013.
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GSA buying plan aims to make it easier for agencies to go mobile
- By Ali Cheung · February 24th, 2012
A pending GSA purchasing plan also is designed to make it less costly for federal agencies to get wireless services and devices.
Technical Communities Breaks Sales Records for 2011
- By Ali Cheung · January 10th, 2012
Company again reports double-digit growth and record results in all 5 revenue categories
Oracle settles $200M claim of failing to offer government best price
- By Travis Wheeler · October 7th, 2011
The settlement resolves a False Claims Act lawsuit that alleges Oracle intentionally gave GSA inaccurate information about discounts it gave to commercial customers and failed to pass those discounts on to the government.
VA adds tablets to contracting vehicle
- By Ali Cheung · August 15th, 2011
Department requests information from vendors on Android, iPad and Windows deployments
IT execs think transition to cloud will turn some of today’s vendors into the next Wang
- By Ali Cheung · June 27th, 2011
More than 70% of tech leaders said in an IDC survey that they expect that by 2014, at least 30% of all IT departments will offer cloud services to partners and customers, and nearly 80% said they believe cloud brokers that offer a full suite of public-cloud services will be big vendors in four years. The news is not all rosy, with respondents saying they expect there will be a few players that don’t survive the transition to the cloud.
GSA helps agencies go mobile
- By Ali Cheung · June 24th, 2011
The GSA’s Making Mobile Gov program offers three levels of assistance for developing a mobile strategy, first by providing market information such as how many people are using cell phones and mobile devices, and what other agencies are doing in mobile applications.
GSA floats another cloud procurement
- By Ali Cheung · May 27th, 2011
Agency looking for a provider for enterprise IT management services
Wanted: Enterprise architects for data center consolidation
- By Ali Cheung · May 20th, 2011
EA community should play bigger role in agency data center consolidation activity, Treasury architect says.
DOD Explores Virtual Worlds For Military Training
- By Travis Wheeler · May 17th, 2011
The armed services aim to simulate real combat situations via virtual reality technology similar to Second Life and other computer games.
