Profile of J. Nicholas Hoover
Senior Editor, InformationWeek Government
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Articles by J. Nicholas Hoover
posted in November 2010
11/29/2010
Top cybersecurity and IT acquisition pros may be reluctant to take government jobs, knowing they won't be eligible for a raise for at least a year.
11/19/2010
White House plans to cut federal data centers by 40%, increase CIOs' authority to promote agility, and improve program management.
11/15/2010
The government is building or funding at least three supercomputers faster than China's Tianhe-1A, and has plans for more.
11/12/2010
Obama administration wants agencies to adopt standard management practices and to invest more efficiently, while GSA looks to cloud for a new platform.
11/10/2010
The Social Security Administration isn't doing enough to follow its own policy preventing unauthorized software from being installed on agency computers, the agency's inspector general says in a new >report. But the agency's policy is unrealistic, and the lack of enforcement -- to a point -- isn't necessarily a bad thing.
11/9/2010
The software firm tried to convince the court that the government didn't have a legitimate claim that it bilked taxpayers out of millions of dollars.
11/5/2010
The federal government's Strategic Cloud Computing initiative seeks to remove barriers to cloud adoption in security, interoperability, portability and reliability.
11/5/2010
New vulnerability reward program could set precedent in white-hat Web hacking.
11/4/2010
The federal government's newly detailed voluntary, standardized process to make sure cloud computing services meet government security requirements was supposed to facilitate the adoption of innovative technologies, but in its current iteration, it may fall short.
11/3/2010
The voluntary FedRAMP program for private and public cloud services, expected to begin in the first quarter of 2011, would standardize security accreditation and certification.
11/1/2010
Big Blue is launching infrastructure-as-a-service targeted at federal agencies and piloting a community cloud effort for local governments.
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