Letting Private Industry be the Ref
Earlier this month, the Obama administration proposed comprehensive cyber security legislation to Congress that would clarify the government’s role in protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure...
View ArticleEstablishing a Cloud Computing Comfort Zone
Across the IT industry, cloud computing continues to become the next “big thing” for agencies, businesses, and individual consumers. The problem is, many consumers continue to have only a vague notion...
View ArticleIn the Cloud or Not: Website Security Demands Strategic Planning
As discussed in our last blog, even as more companies begin to explore the benefits of cloud computing, concerns about security continue to abound. It is true that the more familiar IT-decision makers...
View ArticlePulling Together for CMMI
In March, we were proud to announce that Human Touch, LLC had been appraised as Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 compliant by Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI)....
View ArticleA Perfect Match: Data and Scientific Computing
Using technology to establish advanced Scientific Computing models will transform the sharing of health and research data. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) serves a critical role in ensuring the...
View ArticleHealth IT Professionals Drive Change
As 2011 draws to a close, we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the contributions and accomplishments of our team of IT professionals. Achieving the goals of health care reform largely depends on...
View ArticleA Consideration of Agile Methodologies
Agile methodology is an approach to project management, typically used in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It helps ensure that evolving requirements, even on firm fixed price assignments,...
View ArticleImplementing Agile: Assessing the Barriers
Our last blog focused on an overview of Agile methodologies, and ended with a note that conducting business in this fashion may be an uncomfortable transition for federal agencies, despite the...
View ArticleWhat is the Cloud?
The short answer: the cloud is a virtualized datacenter, located somewhere in cyberspace. But most of us need a little more clarity to understand the Cloud, how it operates, and why it is important....
View ArticleCIO 2.0: Guiding Technology and Shaping Agile Business Processes
The job of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) continues to expand. Previously, running a highly functioning data center and ensuring consistent operations would have been considered success, but now...
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