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The National Science Foundation released their report on cloud computing. It can be found here. The intent of this report is to provide information that guides funding programs. The NSF used NIST's guidance on cloud computing to inform their research and decision making. This report will be instrumental in informing Federal decision makers and cloud investment. It is important to pay attention to such documents as they can help businesses align with … [Read more...]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory is working on a definition of cloud computing (version 14 of their working draft is on their site and is looking great). Like other NIST efforts they have taken a collaborative/collegial approach in building this definition. You can find the full definition at the NIST Computer Security Resource Center. The also provide a briefing titled "Effectively and … [Read more...]
There are several megatrends sweeping the technology industry today. Some of them are about to be accelerated. I like to use five key topic areas to track megatrends in IT: - Convergence and trend towards unified communications and user empowerment - Globalization and increasing internationalization of IT and demographic shifts - Increasing open development of software and hardware - Power, Cooling and Space (PCS) impacting data centers and every … [Read more...]
Below I'm going to post, in its entirety, the text of an e-mail I received from the ODNI notification service. The subject is an op-ed written by Melissa Hathaway, a senior leader who has been spearheading significant coordination action in the federal government (opinion: Melissa is perhaps the most effective SES-level leader in the US government today, IMHO). I wanted to post this in totality for a couple reasons. One is it is something all of … [Read more...]
There are some interesting analogies between performance management applied to organizations and performance management applied to computers. In both cases, performance metrics are crucial to success. In organizations, what we reward gets measured, and what gets measured can be more efficiently and effectively done. In our computers, what we decide is important gets measured, and those measurements can help us drive to increasingly effective and … [Read more...]
I've previously blogged about Triumfant, a company that has mastered the automated detection and resolution of IT problems. I also think of them as the world's greatest compliance monitoring capability. What do I mean by compliance? I mean compliance in the context of the many rules, regulations and configurations that external organizations and the government require, and also compliance with your own policies and guidance. For those who … [Read more...]
In January 2008 I was named to the advisory board of Triumfant, a company who has mastered the automated detection and resolution of IT problems. Of all the IT firms I've seen, they are the ones with the most comprehensive approach to automated resolution management and the only one I've seen that can automate the entire lifecycle of IT problem management, from identification to resolution. I recently read some very exciting news about … [Read more...]
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