As a business communications tool, email is the dominant option, and many
corporations have policies that allow the use of personal email on corporate
computers. In a recent Adobe Systems commissioned online survey of 400 U.S.
white-collar, adult workers, more than 90 percent of them admitted checking
personal emails at work. The workers questioned in the poll estimated they
spend 6.3 hours a day checking emails, with 3.2 hours devoted to work emails
and 3.1 hours to personal messages. Nearly half of the respondents also said
that their use of emails for work will increase in coming years with 19
percent saying it will go up substantially.
Employers generally have the discretion to monitor and restrict employees'
personal computer usage as they see fit and, in most cases, email messages
are not subject to any personal privacy laws. But even with these
stipulations... (more)
What do Government Executives Need to be Thinking about to Make a Successful
Journey to the Cloud?
By Matt Southmayd
In 2011 the US Federal Government issued a Cloud First policy mandating that
agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity
utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost.
Cloud computing is a design style that allows for efficient use of compute,
storage, and memory in order to decrease cycle time for mission delivery and
promises to change the way that agencies deliver services to citizens for the
next tw... (more)
The new issue of IEEE Cloud Computing is now available!
This special issue looks at how to balance
privacy with legitimate surveillance and lawful data access. Some of the
specific areas covered are:
Balancing Privacy and Surveillance in the Cloud; Data Flow Management and
Compliance in Cloud Computing; Anonymous Credential-Based Access Control
Scheme for Clouds; and End-to-End Privacy for Open Big Data Markets.
This issue also features articles on cloud forensics and the strategic value
of cloud.
I am also very proud to present my debut article for IEEE; "IEEE GovCloud:
Making a... (more)
Cloud computing seems destined to be the way enterprises will use
information technology. The drastic cost reductions and impressive
operational improvements make the transition an unstoppable trend. The
“What is cloud computing?” question now, however, seems to be morphing
into “Where is cloud computing going?”
While software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers see their market rocketing
upward as the easiest and quickest path for cloud adoption,
infrastructure-as-a-service providers are suffering as their
high-capital-cost commodity business transitions to a profit margin race to
... (more)
In 2011, then United States CIO Vivek Kundra released the US Federal Cloud
Computing Strategy [1]. In the executive summary he pointed to cloud
computing as a key component of the US Federal Government's information
technology modernization efforts:
"Cloud computing has the potential to play a major part in addressing these
inefficiencies and improving government service delivery. The cloud computing
model can significantly help agencies grappling with the need to provide
highly reliable, innovative services quickly despite resource constraints."
This "Cloud First" initiative wa... (more)
Winning Federal Cloud Business through FedRAMP
The Federal Government's "Cloud First" policy mandates that agencies take
full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization,
improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. The Federal
Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a mandatory
government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security
assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and
services. Advantages for business include being able to market to many
federal agencies after a... (more)
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