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During this week's Federal Executive Forum taping, Navy CIO Robert Carey discussed his views on cloud computing. Stating that the NGEN and CANES (Navy Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services) programs will both leverage cloud computing, he also describes a future of "grey clouds" on each ship.Joining him on the program was:Mike Krieger- Army Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of the ArmyHenry Sienkiewcz- Technical Program Director, Computer Services, Defen... Read Full Story
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Joyent, Inc. is very happy to announce that today we are beginning operations within mainland China.
http://www.joyent.com.cn
Today, we have opened a limited service of the Joyent Cloud to customers within mainland China and will be opening to the general public later this year. We are happy to be working with Intel and the Qinhuangdao Economic and Technology Development Zone, to bring the best infrastructure cloud computing service to customers in the Peoples’ Republic of China.
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During this week's Federal Executive Forum, key decision makers from DoD, DHS and FBI highlighted identity management interoperability as their key priority for 2010. Panelist included:Robert Mocny, Acting Director, US-VISIT Program Department of Homeland Security;Stephen Morris, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, FBI; andThomas Dee, Director, Defense Biometrics, Office of the Secretary of DefenseIn fulfilling his responsibility for provide policy and programmatic oversight on Do... Read Full Story
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Established as a pan European network, EuroCloud are communities that represent a knowledgeable network of companies engaged local and European activities related to SaaS and cloud computing. The network is organized in two tiers with a national level (France, Spain, England, Belgium, etc.) and a European level. The national level focuses on local topics while the European level addresses European topics,under the EuroCloud brand (or another if appropriate in a national setting). Only compan... Read Full Story
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In the The Economics of Cloud Computing, Gwen Morton and Ted Alford have published an EXCELLENT economic evaluation of the federal government's push to cloud computing. Anyone interested in this market should definitely read it, analyse it, and believe it !! The conclusion acknowledges the value of cloud computing, but also offers these practical considerations:It will take, on average, 18-24 months for most agencies to redirect funding to support this transition, given the budget process.S... Read Full Story
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I was on a panel last week talking about the role of infrastructure and “The Cloud” in online gaming (and I’m talking “fun” games, like Farmville, not online gambling).
One of the questions was “What do you think about cloud interoperability and standards?”.
To which I asked, “What do you mean?”
“Well, what do you think about API standards and the like?”
To which I replied, “Completely uninteresting.”
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Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is now a Ulitzer author. Appointed in November 2006, Ms Singer is responsible for ensuring CIA has the information, technology, and infrastructure necessary to effectively execute its missions. Prior to her appointment as Deputy CIO, she served as the Director of the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service (DTS), United States Department of State, and was responsible for global network services to US... Read Full Story
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Joyent is very excited to partner with Yahoo! to create its newest Free Developer Program!
Joyent is offering developers a Launch Accelerator optimized for the Yahoo! Application Platform free for one year! The Yahoo! Application Platform allows you to reach our users and improve the Yahoo! user experience by building and deploying new experiences for them into Yahoo! pages, writing code the way you love to write it. Build powerful applications using your software stack and your environment ... Read Full Story
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Update:
This webinar has been moved to mid-November. As soon as the new date and time is finalized we will post again.
Webinar:
Thursday, October 08, 2009 – 10am PDT
Register Here!
Join us for this informative technical webinar with Raja Srinivasan – Zeus Technology, Rod Boothby – Joyent, and Jimmy Guerrero – Sun Microsystems, where we will explore how to load balance MySQL in the Joyent Public Cloud with ZXTM. When implementing a scale out architecture for MySQL, rep... Read Full Story
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Yesterday during the first annual Government IT Conference and Expo, tactical cloud computing was cited as a critical component within this new paradigm. Joining me to address the issue were:Kartik Mecheri, the Chief Technologist for a large government contract for Unisys Federal Division. He is a leader in designing transformational modernization strategies building on enterprise SOA, BPMS, and asset re-use;Melvin Greer, Senior Research Engineer, SOA / Cloud Computing Chief Architect, and D... Read Full Story
