The Internet of Things (IoT) is an uninterrupted connected network of
embedded objects/ devices with identifiers without any human intervention
using standard and communication protocol. It provides encryption,
authorization and identification with different device protocols like MQTT,
STOMP or AMQP to securely move data from one network to another. IoT in
connected Government helps to deliver better citizen services and provides
transparency. It improves the employee productivity and cost savings. It
helps in delivering contextual and personalized service to citizens and
enhances the security and improves the quality of life. With secure and
accessible information government business makes more efficient, data driven,
changing the lives of citizens for the better. IoT focused Connected
Government solution helps in rapidly developing preventive and predictive
ana... (more)
NATO ACT 'Art of the Possible' Interoperability Demonstration
GovCloud Network is proud to have served as the Program Manager for the NATO
Allied Command Transformation, "Art of the Possible" Interoperability
Demonstration on December 16, 2016. supporting the The Network Centric
Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), this effort featured an important
demonstration for military, government and business leaders by its
member-companies to underscore the benefits of collaborating via an
interoperable network environment. The demonstration used a secure,
federated-cloud infrastructure to highlight the consortium's work over the
past few years in how to develop a trusted environment, including governance
processes and federation management as well as interoperability verification.
This demonstration itself is an outgrowth of the NCOIC Interoperability
Verification (IV)... (more)
(Originally posted on the Engility Corporation Blog)
There's a lot to gain from cloud computing, but success requires a thoughtful
and enterprise focused approach. Cloud computing decouples data and
information from the infrastructure on which it lies. A process that is a LOT
more involved than dragging some folders from your desktop to a shared drive.
Cloud computing as a mission transformation activity, not a technological
one.
As an organization moves from local information hosting to the cloud, one of
the most important challenges is addressing cloud computing as a mission
transformation activity, not a technological one. Cloud computing isn't a new
technology. It's a new way of consuming and provisioning information
technology services. Adopting cloud computing means paralleling your mission
processes, rethinking the economic models and abstracting your applicati... (more)
As cloud computing becomes the information technology mainstream, data center
technology is accelerating at a breakneck speed. Concepts like software
define infrastructure, data center analytics and Nonvolatile Memory Express
(NVMe) over Fabrics are changing the very nature of data center management.
According to industry research firm IDC, organizations will spend an
additional $142.8 billion oninfrastructure for both public and private cloud
environments in the next three years (2016-2018) to boost efficiency and
business agility.
To support this rapid evolving space, Intel announced a “Cloud for All”
initiative last year in order to help businesses get the most out of their
cloud infrastructure. Specific goals for this initiative include:
Investing in the ecosystem to accelerate enterprise-ready, easy-to-deploy
software defined infrastructure (SDI) solutions; Op... (more)
When executing an effective digital transformation strategy, management is
tasked with placing the right workload into the most appropriate IT
environment. This represents a shift from buying parts for self-assembly to
composing services through self-serve consumption and pay-per-use models.
Quite often this transition also leads to the adoption of software defined
environments across the enterprise infrastructure.
Software defined infrastructures do, however, bring with them some very
unique challenges. Many of the most prevalent issues are centered around the
relatively immature state of the technology itself. The most significant
aspect of this challenge is the lack of industry standards for device
control. Control software must know the status of all network devices and
trunks, no matter what vendor equipment is being used. While OpenFlow stands
today as the d... (more)
Cloud computing is more than servers and storage. In a crisis situation it
can actually be a lifesaver. BlackBerry, in fact, has just become the first
cloud-based crisis communication service to receive a Federal Risk and
Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization from the United
States Government for its AtHoc Alert and AtHoc Connect services. If you're
not familiar with FedRAMP, it is a US government-wide program that provides a
standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous
monitoring for cloud products and services. The Blackberry certification was
sponsored by the US Federal Aviation Administration.
While you may not need a US Government certified solution in an emergency,
your organization may really want to consider the benefits of cloud computing
for crisis response. From a communications point of view, companies can... (more)
How Quantum Computing with DNA Storage Will Affect Your Health
By Guest Contributor Taran Volckhausen
Contributing Editor at Vector
Moore's Law, which states that processing speeds will double every two years
as we cram more and more silicon transistors onto chips, has been faltering
since the early 2000s when the law started to run up against
fundamental limitations presented by the laws of thermodynamics. While the
chip industry, with Intel leading the charge, has found ways to sidestep the
limitations up until now, many are now saying that despite the industry's
best efforts, the stunning gains in processor speeds will not be seen again
by the simple application of Moore's Law. In fact, there is evidence to show
that we are reaching the plateau for the number of transistors that will fit
on a single chip. Intel has even suggested silicon transistors can only
keep ... (more)
Everyone wants their device of choice right there next to them 24/7. To an
employer, however, that smart device is nothing more than a dagger posed to
rip apart every shred of corporate security. This reality of modern business
was highlighted by the Information Security Community on LinkedIn through
their 2016 Spotlight Report on "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD). The key trends
influencing enterprise BYOD and mobile security line up as follows:
Increased employee mobility (63%), satisfaction (56%) and productivity (55%)
dominate as the top drivers of BYOD. These employee related drivers are
considered more important than reduced costs (47%). Security (39%) and
employee privacy (12%) are the biggest inhibitors of BYOD adoption. 20% of
surveyed organizations have suffered a mobile security breach, primarily
driven by malware and malicious WiFi. Security threats to BYOD... (more)
Over the past few years, the use of artificial intelligence has expanded more
rapidly than many of us could have imagined. While this may invoke fear and
dread in some, these relatively new technology applications are clearly
delivering real value to our global society. This value is generally seen
in four distinct areas:
Efficiency - Delivering consistent and low-cost performance by characterizing
routine activities with well-defined rules, procedures and criteria Expertise
- augment human sensing and decision makingwith advice and implementation
support based on historical analysis Effectiveness - improve the overall
ability of workers and companies by improving coordination and communication
across interconnected activities Innovation - enhance human creativity and
ideation by identifying alternatives and optimizing recommendations.
Photo credit: Shutterstock
... (more)
Beth Noveck is deputy chief technology officer for open government and leads
President Obama’s Open Government Initiative. She is giving a talk at
Harvard. She begins by pointing to the citizenry’s lack of faith in
government. Without participation, citizens become increasingly alienated,
she says. For example: the rise of Tea Parties. A new study says that a civic
spirit reduces crime. Another article, in Social Science and Medicine,
correlates civic structures and health. She wants to create more
opportunities for citizens to engage and for government to engage in civic
structures — a “DoSomething.gov,” as she lightly calls it. [NOTE:
Liveblogging. Getting things wrong. Missing things. Substituting inelegant
partial phrases for Beth's well-formed complete sentences. This is not a
reliable report.]
Beth points to the peer to patent project she initiated before she... (more)
With all the excellent training available on television today, we are all now
well prepared to deal with the coming Zombie Apocalypse. Our failure as a
society lies, however, in our misunderstanding of the nature of the
cybersecurity challenge. This failure threatens us all and our survival will
depend on society’s ability to deal with the evolution and maturation of
the changing enterprise cybersecurity challenge.
If you’re completely oblivious to the living dead threat, a zombie
apocalypse refers to a widespread (usually global) rise of zombies hostile to
human life. The zombies will engage in a general assault on civilization
where victims may become zombies themselves. This causes the outbreak to
become an exponentially growing crisis. The spreading phenomenon swamps
normal military and law enforcement organizations, leading to the panicked
collapse of civili... (more)
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