March, 2009

Over 500 techies, policy makers, civil servants, vendors, media and academia gathered at Duke Ellington School on March 27-28 for the first ever Gov 2.0 Camp unconference. Let’s get two explanations out of the way. Gov 2.0 is the part of public sector...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will require diligence by everyone in the federal government to make it work. It is a complicated plan, and one that will require the ability – later – for the average American to understand what was done and...

Federal Computer Week has just issued its special report on the 20 th Federal 100 awards, and we are very excited that two of our own, Teresa Carlson and Abe Berlas, have been recognized for making a difference in the Federal IT community. Teresa Carlson...

This past week we had the honor of hosting 41 Wounded Warriors and family members, as part of our Salute to our Troops program, for an eventful day of excitement at SXSW in Austin, TX. The SXSW Film/Music/Interactive Festival is a blend of all things...

Steve Ballmer was recognized with an “Above and Beyond” award on behalf of Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve for the outstanding support of Microsoft employees serving in the Guard and Reserve. ESGR is a Department of Defense organization that...

The Microsoft Department of Defense Team is sponsoring the U.S. Air Force at our two-day Mission Critical Microsoft Symposium in Redmond this week, and we are excited to have more than 180 Air Force customers registered. The event, which kicked off yesterday...

Don’t let travel budgets get in the way of finding out what’s hot at MIX09. Watch technology unfold before your eyes at http://live.visitmix.com/Default.aspx .

Are you attending HIMSS09 in Chicago in April? If so, we hope you can join the Microsoft Federal Team as we support the Bethesda Chapter of AFCEA at a reception to benefit the Children’s Inn at The National Institutes of Health . This exciting event will...

While at FOSE 2009 this week, Noah Sandridge sat down with Rod Fontecilla, Principle, Booz Allen Hamilton, to discuss the success of the Cloud Computing War Games.  Rod explains the vision behind the first ever Cloud Computing War Games and discusses...

This week, I’ve had the pleasure of participating in Booz Allen Hamilton ’s Cloud Computing War Games being held at the 2009 FOSE conference in Washington D.C.   War games typically are used by the military to simulate situations during war...

Federal agencies continue to see the benefits of virtualization solutions in this tough economy. Hill Carter, Enterprise Architect of HP Federal, a Federal Microsoft Partner, discusses the benefits of virtualization with Nichole Devolites, Federal Partner...

Wanted to share with all the followers of the FutureFed Blog a recent interview with Linda Zecher and Washington Technology . Linda Zecher , who became corporate vice president of Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector last month sat down with WashTech to...

In one of the toughest economic environments ever experienced by our customers, we must look at how to find opportunity in the midst. That was the main theme of our CIO Summit yesterday. Our customers need to examine every dollar, resource, technology...

This week, Microsoft Public Sector will hold the seventh annual CIO Summit at our campus in Redmond, Washington. Now more than ever, our customers are facing several challenges, and that makes this year’s event incredibly important. There is a growing...