The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) intends to standardize language in government contracts with cloud service providers to clarify terms with regard to security liability, Nextgov reported Wednesday.
Read More »OMB Seeks Public Comments on Draft ‘Cloud Smart’ Strategy; Suzette Kent Quoted
The Office of Management and Budget has issued a new draft strategy that seeks to help federal agencies facilitate the adoption of cloud platforms in support of their mission requirements. A White House release published Monday says the Cloud Smart strategy marks the first update of the previous cloud policy, Cloud First, introduced in 2010.
GAO Examines Use of Cloud Service-Level Agreements at 5 Federal Departments
The departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Treasury and Homeland Security use service level agreements to procure cloud computing services from the private sector, according to a Government Accountability Office report. GAO said Thursday it reviewed a total of 21 cloud SLAs from those five departments in order to determine …
Read More »DISA to Limit Mailbox Size for Pentagon’s Enterprise Email; John Howell Comments
The Defense Information Systems Agency will start to limit uniformed personnel’s mailbox sizes for Defense Department enterprise email on Oct. 1, the Army said Monday. DISA will cap email storage to 512 megabytes for basic class users and 4 gigabytes for business users in compliance with the DEE service level …
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