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My friend Peter Thorp has a way of sensing great technologies and then helping teach others of the relevance of those to enterprise missions. He did that with amazing firms like Netscape and Opsware and has been key in teaching many of us about dozens of other incredible capabilities. For the last year he has been telling a few of us about a story that can now be broadly shared. His latest project is leading all federal activities of a firm called … [Read more...]
CumuLogic is a cloud computing company founded by Sun Microsystems’ alumni. The company has developed a Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software that makes it easier and faster to develop and deploy Java applications (apps) in the cloud. By automating the management of the runtime environments for developing and deploying Java apps in the cloud, including automated scaling, CumuLogic's Java PaaS can reduce the current time these steps take from … [Read more...]
The Navy Marine Corps Intranet is the largest individual network in the world. The only larger network is the Internet. This huge network sprawl requires a great deal of strategy, concern and planning. Over 700,000 users rely on the intranet to receive IT services. This is a huge network, and the NMCI cannot afford to take risks lightly, nor can they afford to be behind the eight-ball. NMCI uses VMware Infrastructure for a few different reasons. The … [Read more...]
The vFabric Cloud Application Platform was built by VMware to help move applications and capabilities into the cloud (or cloud friendly architectures). This platform combines their "Spring" development platform to the vFabric service delivery solution. The vFabric offering is comprised of the following: The Spring framework used by millions of developers to build modern applications. tc Server: An enterprise version of Apache Tomcat application … [Read more...]
The celebration of IBM's 100th birthday this month has focused the spotlight squarely on Big Blue. In an industry where companies fail all the time, IBM's ability to stay relevant is impressive. So how does a company like IBM manage to stick around for so long? As the ERP market analyst at Software Advice, I typically write about trends related to manufacturing software. But IBM is such a fascinating company and so pervasive in enterprise technology … [Read more...]
Crucial Point LLC subsidiary CTOlabs.com has just published the results of a study on the impact of data growth in government. To download your copy see: http://www.carahsoft.com/dedupesurvey From the press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/04/prweb5243224.htm Data Growth and Virtualization Mandate New Approach to Federal Storage Management Survey Finds Data Deduplication Aids in Managing Data Growth in Federal … [Read more...]
A Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Green IT conference was held 26-27 October 2010 in Washington DC. This event was provided a good mix of presenters from government and industry plus a handful of analysts/commentators/writers/journalists and bloggers. There was also an expo which enabled firms to give demos of capabilities relevant to the topics of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Green IT. First a note about the conference organizers: I've … [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...]