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Data sovereignty and privacy concerns resulting from the extension of US-government mass-surveillance powers should not dissuade Australian businesses from considering and adopting cloud computing services.
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Interesting article on the US Government's (and certain other governments') fixation to spy on its people. Delete the scoop?
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AWS GovCloud (US) is an AWS Region designed to allow US government agencies and contractors to move sensitive workloads into the cloud that require “US Persons” only access. Delete the scoop?
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The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that, while the US ‘Cloud First’ enterprise project is making tangible progress, there are seven cloud lessons for the public sector. Delete the scoop?
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In early 2011, former U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and team helped institute a "Cloud First" policy, which aimed to speed up the government's internal adoption of cloud computing and services. Delete the scoop?
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Security, security, security!!! Unless addressed there are 2 great worries. Hacking for criminal reasons or hacking for big brother. The second one is even scarier. Delete the scoop?
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In what was a relatively straight forward back and forth between representatives from Warwickshire County Council, trade association Intellect and not-for-profit provider Eduserv, the panelists pitched the notion that Cloud Computing needs to be the alternative, not the solution. Delete the scoop?
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Three accelerator centres will be set up in Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver to help small cloud providers collaborate to compete against larger players. Delete the scoop?
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Government is exploring a wide variety of cloud computing approaches to cut costs, improve operations, provide transparency, and engage citizens. Prior successes, such as Recovery.gov and cloud e-mail procurements, have led to the U.S. Delete the scoop?
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