March 6, 2024

Cloud Wars: Azure’s AI Push Challenges AWS’s Dominance

By Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO For years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the gold standard in cloud technologies, setting the pace for innovation and scalability. Our experiences at TCG have mirrored this trend, with AWS’s robust toolkit enabling us…
August 4, 2010

Rising Star Nina Preuss profiled

Our latest Rising Star, Nina Preuss, is profiled in Federal Computer Week online and in print this week. It’s full of vital information, including the fact that she’s not dead. (See the end of the article.) Well done, Nina!…
September 26, 2007

GSA changes tack on FederalSpending.gov solicitation. Again

FCW reports that GSA issued another modification to its solicitation for the data and system to power FederalSpending.gov by January 1st; now they just want data and no software. This is all rather inscrutable to me. From the article:  “GSA…
April 20, 2017

What is Solid State?

If you’re in the market for a new computer, chances are you’ve came across a laptop or desktop with a specification such as “128GB SSD” or “500GB SSHD.” Let’s discuss what these specifications mean. Solid state technology has been present since the 1950s.…
March 4, 2012

Are you having problems with VirtualBox giving out of memory errors?

In a previous post I described how I use Virtual Machines while doing software development.   A few weeks ago I started getting memory errors when I launched a VM without closing down any other VM I had running.  Specifically, I would get a VERR_EM_NO_MEMORY error with a result code of 0x80004005. …
January 25, 2009

FDP January 2009 meeting presentations now available

You can get all the FDP goodness here. Highlights: Federal agency updates (NIH, NSF, ARO, ONR, AFOSR, USDA, NASA) Partnerships for Emerging Research Institutions ERA Survey Results Grants.gov…
December 25, 2013

One More Present to Open: New (Simplified) Rules on Federal Grants

OMB's new grants rules published December 26.
August 21, 2006

GSA to study agencies’ service to citizens

While its focus will be on call centers, e‑mail responses, and web sites, it’s still good to see the GSA studying how well agencies are servicing citizen’s information needs. The first iteration of FirstGov was an amalgamation of sites but…
October 20, 2009

NGMA call for presentations for 2010 conference

Blimey! Today seems to be the day for all sorts of grants news. The NGMA runs a very successful conference every year, and I’m sure 2010’s event will be no different. They’re inviting people to offer panel ideas. Here are the…
August 14, 2018

Ready or Not, Here it Comes: Prepare for Technology Business Management

What is TBM? IT supports most aspects of a modern organization’s performance but it’s historically been difficult to correlate IT investments to business outcomes. Technology Business Management (TBM) is a way to address that challenge. TBM is an expense and budgeting framework and…