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FedRAMP for the impatient.
FedRAMP is how clouds will be authorized for use in the Federal government. With it, the government to authorize a cloud for use just once, instead of forcing each agency to authorize the same cloud...
View ArticleNIST SP 800-53r4 now in draft
We finally have a draft NIST SP 800-53r4. My lord, this is taking forever. For good reason, but… still. It’s to be finalized in July, with comments on this draft due to sec-cert@nist.gov by April...
View ArticleWhy IT Consolidation Isn’t Even Close to Doomed
You may already be familiar with my ongoing frustration with Andrea DiMaio, and his relentless effort to ensure that government IT staff around the world is afraid of failure, change, and the future....
View ArticleOn infrastructure as code.
“What has happened is that the old school operator, where you had a three-ring binder and you followed procedures over and over again, frankly, that job sucked. What has happened over a period of time...
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Federal Cloud and the Reactionary Skeptic
I don’t consider myself a huge cloud promoter, but articles like “Experts: Cloud Brings Vulnerabilities” from Defense News drive me crazy.“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.” – FDRIf...
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IT as Manufacturing
I’m accustomed to a certain amount of bluster and grim cynicism when I talk to customers. It’s a bad time to be running an IT shop these days, especially in government.Even before we meet, my...
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Cloud, Portability, and FUD
“Portable”Chris Uttenweiler over at DLT doesn’t care for all this talk of cloud lock-in. He thinks it’s an inflated problem, blown out of proportion by “third-tier” providers and “self-titled”...
View ArticleIn DC this week
Tuesday, the 23rd, I’ll be speaking at the Cloud Computing & Assurance for Critical DoD Initiatives, talking about cloud security and IT as Manufacturing.Wednesday, the 24th, I’ll be doing the...
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Shared Services and Exit Strategies
“Life is pain, Highness. Whoever tells you differently is selling something.” – Man in Black, “Princess Bride”If you’ve been following my work the last year, you know that I’ve been thinking about the...
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#19: “This is an exploding motorcycle.”
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Gunnar smoking funny cigarettes, OpenShift all over the place, motorcycles, hacking Gunnar’s house (in a bad way), how to ask for help, and how to receive help...
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Lockheed Martin on Open Source and the Cloud
Lockheed Martin’s Melvin Greer, Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist, Cloud Computing, noted that the contractor community’s development of internal expertise in using open source software will help the...
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An Open Cloud Strategy, 3 Bullet Edition
I posted a link to David Lutterkort’s fantastic talk on the Aeolus Project at PuppetConf 2011, and Matt Asay jumped right in: @ghelleks I need the 5-minute transcript version for bloggers.:-)— Matt...
View ArticleSandia National Laboratories, 6 February 2012
Here’s a presentation I did for the Sandia National Laboratories on February 6th, 2012. I covered the usual: the success of open source in government, and the role of open source in a cloud strategy....
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FedRAMP for the impatient.
FedRAMP is how clouds will be authorized for use in the Federal government. With it, the government to authorize a cloud for use just once, instead of forcing each agency to authorize the same cloud...
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UK Red Lines
“This is about the oligopoly: the cluster of big suppliers who have had it too good for too long.” With that, the UK government revealed an unfortunately named policy of red lines for IT contracts: a...
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