http://meritalk.com Where America Talks Government Copyright 2013 MeriTalk Thu, 23 May 2013 14:09:53 -0400 http://meritalk.com/images/logo.png http://meritak.com http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=NitinPradhan&blogentry_id=3533   The U.S. government’s spending on contracts fell 3.1 percent last year, the biggest one-year decline since 1997, according to a Bloomberg Government study. That got me thinking – how man Wed, 22 May 2013 11:34:36 -0400 {6a9f2b48-0309-6a45-e54e-8c241150ac7c} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=DataCenterExchange&blogentry_id=3528 OMB promised $3 billion in FDCCI savings by 2015. Cloud was to reset IT economics. It's time to separate the talk from the truth.   House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform Mon, 13 May 2013 09:26:44 -0400 {7d9d2488-2dca-1e22-2446-6cc8c1d63cf0} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=SteveOKeeffe&blogentry_id=3522 House Hearing - FDCCI And Cloud Get Skooled OMB promised $3 billion in FDCCI savings by 2015. Cloud was to reset IT economics. It's time to separate the talk from the truth. House Committee on Thu, 09 May 2013 14:50:28 -0400 {0d097a4b-d669-a8b9-c850-e0071511c0e4} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=SteveOKeeffe&blogentry_id=3521 CIO Council - VanRoekel's Version  While the flash and sizzle of Vivek's velocity have fizzled, the Federal CIO Council has not stalled. Here's the skinny on VanRoekel&#039 Thu, 02 May 2013 17:52:02 -0400 {3ef314eb-dd21-495f-e0a9-4739a4e109df} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=MeriTalk&blogentry_id=3520 http://www.meritalk.com/stateandlocalbigdatagap Wed, 01 May 2013 10:41:58 -0400 {af0f1cc5-7e2b-0faf-9652-9593f7b96f98} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=CyberSecurityExchange&blogentry_id=3514 The House of Representatives passed a cyber security bill that allows corporations to share customers' personal data with other firms and the U.S. government. The act, known as CISPA, pa Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:16:11 -0400 {7fd3cff8-0360-d9d6-d0c8-5343799cc9ba} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=DataCenterExchange&blogentry_id=3513 Recent GAO report on FDCCI surfaces new stats - and gives long odds on the program achieving real savings. FDCCI is the program that cried wolf. Who isn’t tired of hearing how many data centers w Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:06:00 -0400 {8d3c64c2-0ccf-c83a-dbcc-b621a00aed95} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=DataCenterExchange&blogentry_id=3512 OMB launched a data center consolidation initiative in 1995. Clearly that was a huge success...   Did anybody else see OMB's March 27th memo? The title certainly was designed to bury it Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:04:22 -0400 {6c214e6d-a140-ad66-6b6f-c643f5fabe96} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=DataCenterExchange&blogentry_id=3511 Data center consolidation, or more appropriately, optimization, is every CIO's valentine when it comes to saving real money. It's no wonder Feds have such a crush - we spend about $40 bil Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:59:10 -0400 {1ebf2114-0b34-8a3b-1781-6d4b8191364f} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=SteveOKeeffe&blogentry_id=3510 Heavens Above - Augmented Reality Some idiot saw the World Wide Web in Santa Cruz in 1993. He sniffed, who's ever going to want this toy? That idiot was yours truly. Twenty years older - and Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:17:24 -0400 {1bd93423-34c0-52e5-4a00-b3ad769c6ebd} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=BDXDownload&blogentry_id=3504 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:06:05 -0400 {e8fb667d-411f-2367-a014-b0814a45978b} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=MeriTalk&blogentry_id=3503 http://www.meritalk.com/big-data-beacon.php Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:35:52 -0400 {6432375a-1157-2781-9853-5ddfeec0ba1f} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=MeriTalk&blogentry_id=3502 http://www.meritalk.com/innovatorsanonymous Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:34:58 -0400 {a9f48cb1-036c-332c-bc19-72ac89287c59} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=MeriTalk&blogentry_id=3501 http://www.meritalk.com/navigating-the-storm Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:30:11 -0400 {4c4e239b-642f-d9a6-28ed-82983913bc9d} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=SteveOKeeffe&blogentry_id=3499 Inspired or Ex-Spired? I come here not to praise Richard Spires, but to bury the Federal CIO... DHS is a tough place to work - some say toxic. Richard Spires is not dead. I don' Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:46:40 -0400 {81fc4234-fdbf-b1d1-e639-0b3d58a09d72} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=NitinPradhan&blogentry_id=3498 You can judge the sophistication of your new media or web group with the answer to the above question.  OMB’s “Digital Government” edict requires each agency to publish data and content i Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:49:02 -0400 {e2919144-20f1-827a-b7d9-9d9f5e6aa1cd} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=SteveOKeeffe&blogentry_id=3496 SDN – Infrastructure to Go? What does IT really need? “A new TLA,” I hear you cry. After cloud and big data, seemed we’d consigned our old friend to the obit pages. But wait, it appears the Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:57:37 -0400 {e7d1b52a-32dd-19f5-f9fa-39f3fdc2b3fd} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=SteveOKeeffe&blogentry_id=3494 IT Gerrymandering?  No tea last week, so here’s a double pour - or a full teapot to be more accurate. And, be careful, it's hot.   OMB launched a data center consolidation i Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:11:04 -0400 {c6091dd2-ecab-f301-861c-6f72dc98c48c} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=AnthonyRobbins&blogentry_id=3488 Seventy percent.  According to the GAO, seventy percent of every IT dollar spent by the Federal government goes to supporting legacy systems and infrastructure.  The network infrastructure Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:16:06 -0400 {a4910277-9cba-bfec-d17c-1c2d6ca6c906} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=SteveOKeeffe&blogentry_id=3481 Sixteen Candles with Molly Ringwald It’s that time again - happy birthday to me. We invite you to join us to celebrate 16 years of O’Keeffe & Company, MeriTalk’s sister organization. Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:09:10 -0400 {10d665fa-417e-91ae-ca89-7a0bcb80ed0d} http://meritalk.com/video.php?user=MeriTalk&video_id=179 2013 Data Center Brainstorm Session 3 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:21:56 -0400 {da01dda7-e417-271e-9c40-29b61c030567} http://meritalk.com/video.php?user=MeriTalk&video_id=178 2013 Data Center Brainstorm Session 2 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:21:16 -0400 {36aceb17-787a-f367-b646-a1cb274aa05e} http://meritalk.com/video.php?user=MeriTalk&video_id=177 2013 Data Center Brainstorm Session 1 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:00:05 -0400 {6fc355ac-bb7e-3564-38eb-fb8d9bcf5553} http://meritalk.com/video.php?user=MeriTalk&video_id=176 2013 Data Center Brainstorm Luncheon Keynote Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:50:50 -0400 {e1f4d80a-e67d-3c9e-f136-c73d9f51c0a6} http://meritalk.com/video.php?user=MeriTalk&video_id=175 2013 Data Center Brainstorm Award Ceremony Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:41:55 -0400 {618001a9-872f-571c-b0b7-47435991ef9c} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=SteveOKeeffe&blogentry_id=3456 Deus Ex Machina As the conclave considers, all eyes look for the cloud of white smoke. Fear not, this cup’s not a cloud sermon.   Like the Holy Roman Church, Fed IT is looking for salvati Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:02:11 -0500 {4748275f-b183-8342-3ba1-0d6f6796a561} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=MeriTalk&blogentry_id=3446 http://www.meritalk.com/infrastructureindependence Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:19:07 -0500 {7963e123-c1da-f7f8-3c18-9963254120a0} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=NitinPradhan&blogentry_id=3443 As the nation faces sequestration, Washington D.C. seems to be paralyzed again. Yet this same U.S. Federal government has had a glorious past creating new global industries. The question is will Was Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:20:26 -0500 {64a54430-9dde-8a38-02bb-a765276fc986} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=SteveOKeeffe&blogentry_id=3432 Teleworkosaurus Wrecks Like a fossil from Jurassic Park, Yahoo's trying to make telework extinct. Ironic that Marissus Mayosaurus should hatch this week as workplace evolution's on the ma Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:51:17 -0500 {fdc31204-28dc-e492-a5a5-086bd70a7c62} http://meritalk.com/blog.php?user=NitinPradhan&blogentry_id=3429 Why is it that I can quickly search and find a specific product from the millions available on Amazon.com, but I can’t easily find a major Federal service from just a few thousand services that Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:00:31 -0500 {7a867e88-f161-8e2f-2266-5870d59c061d}