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NOAA is in the news for being among the leaders in federal government for Shared Services, and to use the cloud, such as migrating to Google Apps for Government, and switching to Apple iPhones from RIM
Blackberries.

 

 

Date IT News Headlines Source Description
Dec 21, 2012  NOAA's 10G network keeps the terabytes coming Government Computer News Big Data: N-Wave, a 10-gigabit Ethernet wide-area network, connects NOAA’s high-performance computing sites, data archives and researchers. N-Wave has the ability to scale to a 100-gigabit Ethernet as demand increases.
Dec 13, 2012 BYOD: Not so inevitable after all  FCW - The Business of Federal Technology With all the talk about how inevitable BYOD is, does allowing employees to use their own smart phones and tablet PCs at work benefit the agency?
Oct 29, 2012  Titan's Ready to Roll; ORNL supercomputer may become world's No. 1 KnoxNews.com It is Titan's time at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the results could be breathtaking. Titan is ORNL's new Cray XK7 supercomputer...
Oct 16, 2012  GAEA goes Petascale National Climate-Computing Research Center Supercomputing: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and NOAA have completed upgrades to the latter’s climate research supercomputer, Gaea, allowing the agency to advance its climate modeling and improve our understanding of climate variability and change.
Oct 8, 2012 Is the cloud overhyped? Predicted savings hard to verify Federal Times One of the most attractive benefits of cloud computing can also be one of the hardest to prove: cost savings...
Jul 23, 2012 The Business of Government Hour - Broadcast: Joseph F. Klimavicz The IBM Center  Mr. Klimavicz is responsible for implementing statutory requirements regarding the acquisition, management, and use of NOAA's information and information technology resources. 
Jun 28, 2012 Is it too late to turn around Blackberry maker's fortunes? BBC News Research in Motion, the maker of the Blackberry, is going through the toughest period in its history, as NOAA defects. 
Jun 4, 2012 VIDEO: NOAA CIO JOE KLIMAVICZ Nextgov Joe Klimavicz, CIO at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration, says challenges in moving to the cloud range from managing sensitive data to changing the skill sets of federal IT workers. 
Apr 23, 2012 Shared services is new 'default' for federal CIOs  1500 AM FederalNewsRadio.com Joe Klimavicz, NOAA CIO, in an interview with The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp. 
Apr 9, 2012 Finding the hidden value in shared IT services Federal Computer Week Technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing and continuous monitoring have helped provide ubiquitous access to shared IT services... 
Apr 1, 2012 Learning to Share Government CIO  Early on NOAA recognized and pursued the opportunity to reduce cost and improve services because the agency’s budget has always been tight and its IT is decentralized and vast.  
Feb 13, 2012 U.S. Government’s NOAA to Replace BlackBerrys With IPhones Bloomberg Business Week Research In Motion Ltd. was dealt another setback as NOAA said it would supply employees with iPhones, the latest organization to drop the BlackBerry.