April, 2009

By Teresa Carlson , Microsoft Vice President of U.S. Federal Government Sales Cloud computing.  It is on the mind of many of our Federal customers.  When I go out and speak with them, there is still a lot of discussion around the idea of cloud...

By Teresa Carlson , Microsoft Vice President of U.S. Federal Government Sales If you have any ideas for the President on how federal agencies can improve spending, now is the time to send them in.  In fact, yesterday kicked off a high-tech round...

By Teresa Carlson , Microsoft Vice President of U.S. Federal Government Sales “There are many, many important charities in this country. There are few essential charities. The American Red Cross is one of the essential ones.” - Former Oklahoma...

The interest in adopting Web-oriented technologies that enable such things as information sharing and social communities is growing considerably. It is also exciting to see thinking evolve in this area across government agencies that encourages more innovation...

  By Teresa Carlson , Microsoft Vice President of U.S. Federal Government Sales Today is a momentous day.  We’re joining the Federal community in celebrating the weekend’s appointment of the nation’s first ever Chief Technology Officer. ...

In our last post, we discussed some of the cloud computing platform characteristics that agencies should weigh carefully when considering a move to cloud - based services. The technology partners under consideration should offer a broad set of choices...

In today’s climate, there is an emphasis on transparency and governance within federal agencies. This makes it increasingly important for federal agencies to have an effective strategy in place for information intelligence—knowing what information assets...

Innovation occurs when we uncover positive advances that are substantially different from before. In this economy and beyond, innovation is exactly what we need. Improvements that drive productivity are critical, and technological innovation will play...

Cloud Computing. It’s THE hot topic for Government since President Obama took office. More and more technology companies are approaching the government to try to help them create a “cloud” computing environment , to store data and software in remote data...

As part of the annual AIIM Conference in Philadelphia, Microsoft released “ The Way to Gov 2.0: An Enterprise Approach to Web 2.0 in Government” paper on March 31 to further aid City, State, and Federal Agencies in understanding the special considerations...

Despite society’s best efforts, there is a huge disparity in the number of men and women majoring in IT fields and pursuing technology-related careers. In 1982, about half of the students majoring in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) were...