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Last week I attended a Carahsoft webinar with Virtual Instruments' Doug Norton and our very own Bob Gourley. The topic was the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, and what Virtual Instruments can do to help prepare your agency for consolidation. The key capability that Virtual Instruments brings to the table is the ability to identify and create real metrics for your data center and across the SAN. VI uses fibre channel technologies to copy … [Read more...]
The Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) is an important initiative in the federal space that seeks to enhance how the government delivers IT services in agencies and in some cases to citizens. Consolidating data centers offers opportunities for CIOs and CTOs to change IT strategy and implementations. The FDCCI should lead to improved federal capabilities while lessening the financial brunt on the taxpayers. Join Carahsoft, Doug … [Read more...]
We all know how much data is exploding, but it is important to note that much of that data is duplicated (or re-duplicated). De-duplication systems are key, and provide valuable services, but they cannot be the end-game data management system. Many services (such as data mining) also require access and copies of enterprise data, they are often duplicated to ensure that they do not touch the functional data, but this requires even more storage … [Read more...]
Last week I was fortunate enough to sit down with Power Assure's CTO and co-founder, Clemens Pfeiffer. Power Assure provides data center data center infrastructure and energy management tools, but their expertise with data centers carries far beyond just power management. Clemens spoke to me about how Power Assure can help any data center identify weaknesses and move to an energy efficient modern data center. Power Assure can help CTOs identify a … [Read more...]
With this post we provide some info on a capability we believe most of our readers will want to know more about, the Plug and Play Tech Center. For an overview see the video clip below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkse7I5k44E&feature=player_embedded The Plug and Play Tech Center is a Silicon Valley facility with a very apropos name. If you have a business idea or a hot technology and you want to accelerate it into the world, you want to go … [Read more...]
The Government Big Data Newsletter grew out of the first Government Big Data Forum. The newsletter is meant to contribute to dialog in-between our in-person meetings, and will supplement information that is provided here on our CTOvision.com Big Data articles. The newsletter is being produced in both hardcopy and electronic versions. Our intent is to capture lessons learned, best practices and use cases that will help readers think through new ways … [Read more...]
If you are an enterprise technologist in or out of the Federal Government, please take time to watch the entire presentation below. It captures the entirety of the presentations and majority of the conversations at the White House Forum on Information Technology Management Reform. I recommend you watch the entire presentation for several reasons. If you are a student of IT and its governance, you will see what a good strategy looks like. If you are a … [Read more...]
The Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Greet IT conference will be held at the Washington DC Grand Hyatt Hotel 26 and 27 October. The following info is condensed from: http://events.1105govinfo.com/events/vcg-summit-2010/home.aspx This conference is exactly about what its title says: Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Green IT. Each of those topics are also turned into conference tracks with deeper dives into the topics. Track 1 - Cloud … [Read more...]
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 Intel's strategy; Proactive Refresh - All data centers need refreshing, one of Gregg's focuses is determining the appropriate timeline for … [Read more...]