Computing In The Cloud: Who Owns Your Files? : NPR

Computing In The Cloud: Who Owns Your Files? : NPR: "Do you have a Yahoo e-mail account? Maybe a Gmail account? Do you put up pictures on Flickr? Perhaps you've started keeping your schedule online. If so, then you are using cloud computing — that's what tech companies call it when people work and store information on the Internet."

Building a Fort: Lessons in Software Estimation - 10x Software Development

Building a Fort: Lessons in Software Estimation - 10x Software Development: "My big project this summer was building a fort for my kids. I'd wanted to build a clubhouse or treehouse or fort or something for the past few years, but we didn't have a good place to put it. Then while clearing some blackberries in the spring I discovered that our property extended about 20 feet further into the adjacent overgrown area than I had thought, and that was the perfect place for a fort."

Will 'virtual' computers shut door on Windows?

Washington Times - Will 'virtual' computers shut door on Windows?: "I often tell people that my experience with every version of Microsoft Windows - going back to 1.0, which I purchased at the very first Staples store in Cambridge, Mass. - resembles my pre-marriage dating life."

GAO-08-822 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Key Marine Corps System Acquisition Needs to Be Better Justified, Defined, and M

GAO-08-822 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Key Marine Corps System Acquisition Needs to Be Better Justified, Defined, and M: "GAO has designated the Department of Defense’s (DOD) business systems modernization as a high-risk program because, among other things, it has been challenged in implementing key information technology (IT)management controls on its thousands of business systems. The Global Combat Support System-Marine Corps program is one such system."

Newly consolidated centers return quickly in simulated disaster

Newly consolidated centers return quickly in simulated disaster: "IN APRIL, the Virginia Information Technology Administration (VITA) conducted the first large-scale disaster recovery tests of the consolidated data centers that will house the state’s executive agencies’ IT infrastructure.

“That disaster recovery test proved to be much more successful than past tests,” said Fred Duball, director of VITA’s Service Management Organization. “We were able to do things quicker…and go further than we had in the past.”"

Low-end systems still do most of the grunt work for your agency but suppliers offer improved performance

Low-end systems still do most of the grunt work for your agency but suppliers offer improved performance: "n the military, the big ships, planes and super-fast fighters get all the press. In the realm of information technology, it’s supercomputers. The Energy Department’s Argonne National Laboratories just dedicated its new Leadership Computing Facility in April, which will house the 556-teraflop Intrepid supercomputer. And a National Nuclear Security Administration supercomputer named Roadrunner made news last week when it hit 1 petaflop."

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