I remember 3 years ago having a conversation with Vint Cerf and Lewis Shepherd about federal data in the Google Cloud.  Lewis and I both shared what we believed to be key obstacles Google would have to surmount before gaining widespread acceptance of their cloud capabilities by US feds.  In my opinion, today’s announcements by...
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Most enterprise CTOs are very interested in the “cloud” and ways to tap into cloud-based resources.   An interesting aspect of this discussion has been how to access the cloud while on the move.   Today’s cellular networks support that access today, and future enhancements are making that support even better and much much faster. How...
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Jesse Robbins of Opscode and O’Reilly Radar provided lessons learned from his experiences in cloud computing and scaling.   Jesse was titled “Master of Disaster” with Amazon, responsible for Website Availability for every Amazon.com domain.  Today, he’s the CEO of Opscode, an infrastructure automation framework.  Jesse is also the co-chair of the Velocity Conference, which is...
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Randi Levin, CTO of the City of Los Angeles, John Zeberlein of CSC, and Deborah Hafford of Google Enterprise offered a wide open Q&A session into one of the nation’s first cloud computing service deployments for a local government, Los Angeles.  With roughly 30,000 email users moving from Novell Groupwise to Google Apps, this...
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With this post I would like to bring your attention to  CTOlabs.com The purpose of the CTOlabs site is to provide a venue for providing technology concepts and reviews which highlight some of the commercial capabilities of Crucial Point LLC (CTOlabs.com is a subsidiary of Crucial Point). Crucial Point and our collaboration of world...
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The 2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 23-27 May in Phoenix Arizona.  This venue is hosted by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer.  The focus is on topics relevant to mission success for the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS).  DoDIIS is all about facilitating the...
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As previously announced, DIA has announced awardees for their major information technology acquisition program Solutions for the Intelligence Technology Enterprise (SITE). We are starting to see press releases from the winning firms.  The Centauri Solutions release is below.  This is one I have a deep personal interest in because they graciously allowed my firm...
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Carahsoft is a unique, trusted firm that helps government find and rapidly acquire the right technologies and helps high tech firms successfully interact with government (which has famously onerous processes for businesses that want to serve the federal mission).  Carahsoft is a client of my firm and one of the things I’m particularly proud...
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Gregg Wyant, Intel’s IT CTO is in the process of refreshing his data centers.  Like every other CTO, he has limited resources.  Not even he gets free CPUs and motherboards.  Gregg recently explained to me and a few others on a teleconference his Data Center Strategy.  He focused on the 8 principles that drive...
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We have been writing for years about the megatrend of Cloud Computing, and have also underscored that many of the opinions on Cloud Computing reflected here are because of both hands-on experience with enterprise IT and also the use of cloud capabilities for our business at Crucial Point LLC. The core IT capabilities of...
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