Profile of J. Nicholas Hoover
Senior Editor, InformationWeek Government
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Articles by J. Nicholas Hoover
posted in May 2010
5/27/2010
The city known as a government tech innovator is also launching a startup incubator and pushing community involvement in app development.
5/26/2010
Google has already been approved as a FedRAMP launch vendor, and now has submitted its final materials to certify its government-specific cloud.
5/25/2010
Even at the Gov 2.0 Expo, a government IT event where the geeks seem to outnumber the bureaucrats, I hear the same old refrain about social media and open data from some questioners and attendees: we can't do this, management won't accept it, government regulations make it too hard.
5/24/2010
The Apps for Army application development challenge has sparked development of 53 applications in only 75 days, more than half of them for mobile operating systems.
5/24/2010
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will pay CSC and Cray to plan, build, and operate high-performance computers for climate prediction research.
5/21/2010
In the past two weeks alone, the government has introduced a new cloud RFQ, expanded its cloud app store, and launched a clouds standards effort.
5/19/2010
The year-old partnership has already led to promising developments using Microsoft Surface multi-touch computers and will now expand to use Microsoft's Project Natal controller-free system designed for Xbox 360.
5/19/2010
The federal government's online data repository is getting a redesign that will add Microsoft's Bing search, feature links to data sets and applications, and focus on usability.
5/19/2010
Simon Szykman comes from NIST to replace Suzanne Hilding and manage Commerce's $2.6 billion annual IT budget.
5/18/2010
The Defense Intelligence Agency contract covers the gamut of intelligence-related IT from unclassified to top secret and from the U.S. to Afghanistan.
5/17/2010
Counter to policy, former Google exec Andrew McLaughlin used Gmail to send work-related e-mail.
5/13/2010
The federal government hopes moving the stimulus-tracking Web site to Amazon EC2 will allow the recovery board to save money and refocus on its core mission.
5/12/2010
Four-fold increases in server virtualization and significant boosts in efficiency and server utilization are aims of the federal data center consolidation effort.
5/12/2010
House and Senate bills would require a searchable Web site detailing all Congressional earmark requests, by legislator.
5/10/2010
DISA, the military's IT and networking branch, gets a new CIO, head of strategy, and top networking official.
5/10/2010
The General Services Administration joins other agencies in pegging e-mail as an early opportunity to take advantage of cloud computing.
5/3/2010
The seven-year deal will include support for everything from the Air Force's Web portal to logistics applications.
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