4 waves of cloud: Are agencies along for the ride?
The public sector has moved toward cloud computing, but has it been enough of a catalyst to ensure interoperability?
‘Biometrics in a box’ – migrating Windows apps to the Amazon cloud
A hands-on look at migrating biometrics applications to Amazon's cloud.
The 3 secrets to unlocking big data
What is different about big data is the ability of emerging cloud environments to process unlimited amounts of data.
4 steps to the right data-sharing architecture for your agency
The IT market is muddied with confusing claims about information sharing technology, so here are steps to an architecture that should clear things up.
White House digital strategy hits the mark
Behind the plan are all the pieces for a robust, 21st-century platform.
Hackers own today's free-love PC architecture, and it's time to move on
With the coming post-PC architecture, sensor, device and cloud components will form a new multi-machine OS with built-in solutions for security and ID management.
Why NIST's cloud definition is fatally flawed
NIST's definition of cloud computing is incomplete because it excludes big data and omits any number of "things as a service."
Good metadata means good government
Understanding how to design the right metadata is the key to helping users (and citizens) get the most value from data on your organization's products and services.
Are we serious about cybersecurity? Here's a test to find out.
The U.S. will either do the hard work necessary to establish a strong national cybersecurity defense or get stuck in the doldrums of decline.
Systemic tensions: 3 IT project zombies that just won't die
Three recurring conflicts born of well-meaning but often diametrically opposed IT forces keep haunting IT systems development.
Why programming languages no longer matter
It is not that there is no difference among programming languages. It's just that those differences are becoming less and less a factor in choosing a development platform.
Memo to health IT planners: no need to reinvent standards
Columnist Mike Daconta helps clarify the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology's recommendation for a universal exchange language for health care information and explains why it is more than feasible today.
Big data: You'll have it, but can you handle it?
Massive datasets created by new cloud platforms will put a heavy burden on government IT managers. Here’s what you can do about it.
Why IBM's Watson is good news for government
Watson's pipelined, pragmatic process demonstrated significant innovations that overcame the type of grand challenges faced every day by the government IT community.
What's right and what's wrong with IT reform plans
The CIO Council's plan for reforming IT management offers significant improvements but is weak in a few areas.
The cloud has a silver lining after all
Once you understand what it is and is not, the move to cloud computing represents an opportunity for a disciplined approach to tackling information overload.
3 tragic flaws of some well-meaning dashboards
When beginning a dashboard project, there are three common pitfalls to avoid: using the wrong type of dashboard, using weak metaphors and using made-up data.
Beware an impending e-records train wreck
Outdated technologies and inadequate transparency are hampering HHS's electronic health records effort, but the experience could provide lessons other agencies can use to avoid similar pitfalls, says columnist Michael Daconta.
With info sharing, context is as important as content
Context is so critical that its implications are cropping up in more than a half-dozen areas of data architecture, such as process monitoring, business glossaries, master data management, metadata catalogs, information exchanges, data warehousing and much more, Reality Check columnist Michael Daconta writes.
It's time to burst the cloud's hype bubble
Agencies are rushing into an unfinished technology that lacks standards and governance and is not suited to all of its proposed uses, Reality Check columnist Michael Daconta says.
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