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NJVC Platform as a Service to Include Google Geospatial Services for NCOIC Geospatial Community Cloud Project in Support of Disaster Relief Efforts
CHANTILLY, Va., July 9, 2013 — NJVC® was selected by Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) to provide the platform as a service (PaaS) element of a cloud-computing-based humanitarian assistance…
Fathers of Clouds – A Tribute
(A guest post from Mr. Ray Holloman, NJVC Digital Communications Manager ) For more than half a century, cloud computing has changed names more often than a Hollywood starlet. Utility…
CNBC Closing Bell: Bob Gourley on NSA Leaker
This is clearly off topic, but I couldn’t help myself! Please take a moment to view this CNBC video where my good friend Bob Gourley addresses this important event. Good…
Guest Blog: Sequestration and the Cloud
(This post was provided by Praveen Asthana, Chief Marketing Office of Gravitant, a cloud service brokerage and management company) Sequestration burst out of obscurity and entered our household vocabulary in…
Join Me at the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit
Please join me at the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit in Orlando, Florida, June 18-20, 2013, where my session topic will be “Cloud Service Integration: Increasing Business Value…
Five Years of Cloud Musings!!
https://kevinljackson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hello-world-april-18-2008.html “Sunday, April 18, 2008 Hello World ! – April 18, 2008 I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a blog for about six months now. Initially I didn’t…
Global Interoperability Consortium’s Cloud Computing Project Detailed at NATO Conference
PRESS RELEASEApril 30, 2013, 2:30 p.m. ET Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium reports the proliferation of geospatial information will pose problems for disaster responders and describes…
IBM Debate Series – What’s Next in IT?
Next week I will be participating in the inaugural session of What’s Next in IT Debate Series, a new program of authentic debates and conversations on key technology topics. Sponsored…
Lisbon Bound: NATO Network Enabled Capability Conference 2013
This week I will have the honor of attending the 2013 NNEC Conference at the Corinthia Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. The NNEC conference is an annual event which has been sponsored by HQ…
Demystifying PaaS for Federal Government
Join us on April 16, 2013 at 1 PM EDT to remove the mystery surrounding Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for Federal Government https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8966264786104832512 The PaaS market is plagued with confusion, and agencies…
In response to request, the inaugural “Cloud Musings Direct” newsletter was launched this week. This bi-weekly electronic newsletter will highlight important government cloud computing industry trends and events. If you didn’t see the newsletter in you email inbox on Monday (and it’s not caught up in your spam folder), please register to get future issues.
In this week’s Cloud Musing’s Direct:
NGA Exploring “Community Cloud” with NCOIC
By Kevin Jackson
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is looking to leverage industry expertise through collaboration with the Network Centic Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC). NGA provides timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. NCOIC’s mission is to facilitate global realization of the benefit inherent in Network Centric Operations. To that end, they seek to enable continuously increasing levels of interoperability across the spectrum of joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational industrial and commercial operations. Both organizations are looking to this collaborative effort to help enhance worldwide sharing of geospatial intelligence. More
Government Pushes, Questions Cloud
By Hovhannes Avoyan
President Obama is pushing cloud computing and the U.S. government has created an app store (Apps.gov). Yet federal officials still have plenty of questions and concerns surrounding security on the cloud. A recent PCWorld magazine article cited a GAO report that was released this week that listed several security concerns — among them, vendors using ineffective security practices, agencies not able to examine the security controls of cloud suppliers , criminals targeting data-rich clouds, and agencies losing access to their data if the relationship with a vendor ends. More
NASA Collaborates with Japan Over Joint Open Source Cloud Computing
By Lavenya Dilip
NASA and Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII) will be collaborating on interoperability between NASA’s Nebula Cloud Computing Platform and Japan’s NII Cloud infrastructure. Nebula, NASA’s huge open source project for the purpose of on-demand cloud computing integrates cloud computing and data center containers for NASA’s new data powerhouse and provides access to high performance computing and storage for the space agency’s researchers. Japan’s NII Cloud provides cloud platform services to Japan’s academic and research community. NASA Nebula and NII’s Cloud are both built entirely using open source technologies and open-data application programming interfaces. More
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