August, 2010

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal   Fear of the federal “ brain drain ” has been around for years.  It’s a fact that a large portion of the federal workforce falls into the “baby boomer” generation, and as the Boomers near...

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal   My last post focused on cloud standards in support of interoperability, and how the best existing Web standards have incredible value as we think about defining cloud standards.  Jean Paoli...

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal   When we talk about cloud standards, we’re often thinking about security and privacy .  But standards also play an extremely important role in ensuring interoperability and data portability...

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal This week I had the opportunity to contribute a column to the “ On Leadership ” section of Washingtonpost.com .  It’s an online community for leaders from all segments of society to come together...

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal   Last Friday, Ashlee Vance ( @valleyhack ) of the New York Times wrote an interesting post to the Bits Blog on a tool called CloudSleuth , which monitors the speed and availability of various...