Author Archive
Warren Suss
Infrastructure
5 lessons from DOD's cloud computing efforts
The Defense Department has taken the federal lead in deployed cloud computing solutions. Let’s look at four examples of DOD’s cloud efforts and five lessons other agencies can learn from the department’s experience.
Cybersecurity
The steps beyond DNSSEC implementation
Because it is so important to protect against DNS-based attacks, federal information technology managers should address DNS challenges that go beyond basic compliance with the current DNSSEC initiative.
Cybersecurity
Warren Suss | How federal IT can help corporate recovery
Federal IT managers have rarely had responsibilities directly related to the success of IT in corporate America, but that is about to change.
Digital Government
Warren Suss | The high-stakes game of information exchange
Improved federal information exchange has the power to cure our nation’s ills. But it will only happen if we keep our focus on high-stakes results.
Digital Government
Warren Suss | Streamlining IT governance
In the coming era of rapidly deployed, network-centric capabilities and services, streamlined governance strategies are essential to flattening, if not eliminating, speed bumps in information technology testing and certification.
Digital Government
Another View | Surviving the economic crisis
Commentary: Federal IT managers should focus on new and better ways to deliver value.
Digital Government
Another View | Networx: Overcoming the risks
With 135 agencies and 1,600 facilities in 191 countries, we are more vulnerable than ever to transition problems.
Cybersecurity
Warren Suss | A sharing solution in plain sight
Commentary: Federated identity management holds the key to gathering and integrating data across multiple layers of government.
Infrastructure
Warren Suss | The Internet of things
Another View'commentary: A parallel Internet universe is emerging where things can talk with and listen to one another.
Digital Government
Warren Suss | SOA: The dream and reality
There are serious questions about whether SOA is ready for prime time.
Cybersecurity
Jack Jones and Warren Suss | The promise of HSPD-12
Another View'commentary: HSPD-12 isn't just a mandate; it's an opportunity.
Featured eBooks
Digital Government
The tyranny of federal IT
Guest commentary: Until we recognize the tyrannical side to government IT, we'll never fully deliver on its promise.
Digital Government
Warren Suss | The most important IT decision
Guest commentary: The strategy for information technology outsourcing has become the most important decision facing federal IT managers. It's more important than enterprise architecture, a security plan and an infrastructure consolidation road map combined.
Digital Government
Peter Tseronis and Warren Suss | Make the IPv6 transition work for you
Guest commentary | Not excited about IPv6? Maybe you need to ask not what you can do for IPv6, but what IPv6 can do for you.
Infrastructure
John C. Johnson and Warren Suss | Networx can transform federal enterprise
The Networx contract can do more than provide wide-area IP networks
Digital Government
Warren Suss | Infrastructure and the bottom line
Until federal infrastructure managers make a more direct, measurable case for their contribution to program-level performance, IT infrastructures will continue to be perceived as cost centers, not profit or value centers.
Digital Government
Warren Suss | Another View: Software as a service
The acceptance of on-demand software by major corporate users is important. As OMB's power grows in determining federal IT investments, the government increasingly takes its lead from corporate IT business case models.
Digital Government
Warren Suss | At your service
Corporate America is replacing traditional buy-and-run-your-own IT application models with software-as-a-service, and the government will be next.
Digital Government
Warren Suss | Networx and the Future of GSA
I read with distress Neal Fox's column, 'GSA's Networx'Will it connect with users?" What makes the piece dangerous is that it trashes a program that really represents a wonderful, if imperfect, model for how GSA should address many of the government's most pressing challenges.
Digital Government
ANOTHER VIEW
Federal agencies are going to become leaner, flatter organizations that provide subagencies and programs with greater decision-making authority. Management will concentrate attention and resources where services are delivered and mission-critical functions are performed. Agencies will support programs with better tools. They will gather the information needed to monitor and assess program performance. They will reallocate resources to more effective programs, and will optimize roles and responsibilities between public and private partners.
