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EITAGlobal and Cloud Expert Kevin L. Jackson Team To Deliver Business Focused Cloud Computing Training
Today I am announcing my partnership with EITAGlobal to produce and deliver a series of business focused training webinars on cloud computing. Headquartered in Fremont, California, EITAGlobal is a continuing professional…
NRRC Video Series – Video 6 : Telos Demonstrates Cloud-based Communications System
In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled…
NRRC Video Series – Video 5 : Boeing Ozone Dashboards for Emergency Management
In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled…
Proud To Be Joining Veterans 360 and Cloud for Vets!
Today I’m proud and honored to announce my appointment to the Board of Advisors for Veterans 360. Their mission is to provide young, recently-separated combat veterans with a program of…
Take Charge, Lead Change, Do Cloud Right!
The theme for next week’s Gartner Data Center conference, “Taking Charge, Leading Change — Your I&O Transformation Can’t Wait”, is a real wake up call for today’s I&O leaders. Gartner’s…
Cloud Computing at the Potomac Officer’s Club
Across the Federal IT landscape, terms like “cloud”, “cloud computing” and Software as a service (SaaS) are at the center of a seismic shift by the agencies away from building…
NRRC Video Series – Video 2 : Building the Cloud Infrastructure
In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled…
NRRC Video Series – Video 1 : Introduction and Overview
In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled…
NCOIC To Rollout Open Process for Creating Secure, Hybrid IT Computing Environments
Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium to offer capability to organizations that seek to combine traditional and cloud infrastructures for greater efficiency and mission success WASHINGTON-November 19, 2013-Next month, the Network…
So what kind of consultant are you?
Yesterday over lunch, a good friend of mine from the Limelight Marketing Group and I started talking about my recent transition. As you can imagine being in the DC metro…
Nikita Ivanov of GridGain offers some excellent insight into the nuts and bolts of getting the cloud to work. Definitely worth a read. To summarize:
- Most likely you do NOT need cloud computing
- The best way to think about cloud computing is “Data Center with API”
- You will spend weeks and months fine tuning your cloud based application
- You are about to deal with 100s and 1000s of remote nodes
- You cannot rely on the fact that environment will be homogeneous
- Debugging problem on a cloud scale requires deep understanding of distributed computing
- IP multicast will likely not work or work with significant networking limitations.
- Traffic inside is very cheap or free – but traffic outside is expensive and can “get you” very quickly
- If you have to use cloud all the time, the economics change and it may be cheaper to traditionally rent in a data center
- Up time and per-computer reliability is low – comprehensive failover support on grid middleware is a must
- Static IPs are not guaranteed
- Almost always plan on having multiple clouds
- External clouds may present data sharing problems
- Carefully think through dev/qa/prod layout and how this is all organized
- Clunky (re)deployment of your application onto the cloud can stop your development process
- Connections are often one-directional so comprehensive communication capabilities supporting one-directional connectivity and disjoint clouds in grid middleware is a must
- Cloud are implemented based on hardware virtualization – make sure your grid middleware can dynamically provision such images on demand
- Stick with open source stack
- Linear scalability can only be achieved in a control test environment. Real world applications will exhibit non-linear scalability.
- [His] Personal recommendation: use Amazon EC2/S3 services
Cloud Computing
- CPUcoin Expands CPU/GPU Power Sharing with Cudo Ventures Enterprise Network Partnership
- CPUcoin Expands CPU/GPU Power Sharing with Cudo Ventures Enterprise Network Partnership
- Route1 Announces Q2 2019 Financial Results
- CPUcoin Expands CPU/GPU Power Sharing with Cudo Ventures Enterprise Network Partnership
- ChannelAdvisor to Present at the D.A. Davidson 18th Annual Technology Conference
Cybersecurity
- Route1 Announces Q2 2019 Financial Results
- FIRST US BANCSHARES, INC. DECLARES CASH DIVIDEND
- Business Continuity Management Planning Solution Market is Expected to Grow ~ US$ 1.6 Bn by the end of 2029 - PMR
- Atos delivers Quantum-Learning-as-a-Service to Xofia to enable artificial intelligence solutions
- New Ares IoT Botnet discovered on Android OS based Set-Top Boxes