December NCOIC Plenary Presentations

“Cloud Musings” Named A “Top 50 Blog”

By G C Network | August 27, 2010

My appreciation and thanks goes out to Jeremy Geelan for including “Cloud Musings” on his list of the Top 50 Cloud Computing Blogs. Thanks is also in order for “HighTechDad”…

Will Oracle Buy Informatica?

By G C Network | August 25, 2010

According to 1,250 ERP Software Advice readers that will be Oracle’s next acquisition. Terradata came in a close second in this race, suggesting that Oracle will “…play it safe next time…

What’s Next For Oracle?

By G C Network | August 14, 2010

Watching Larry Ellison and Oracle over the years as it has morphed itself is a real study in market dynamics.  It’s transformation from database company through middleware provider to now…

Enterprise Architecture Enables Innovation: Melvin Greer, Lockheed Martin

By G C Network | August 11, 2010

Earlier this week, my good fried and NCOIC colleage, Melvin Greer was interviewed by Rutrell Yasin of Government Computer News. In the interview, Mel focused on the importantance of entrprise…

Are You A Cloud Architect? NJVC Needs YOU!!

By G C Network | July 31, 2010

If you are a cloud computing architect, have I got news for you!  NJVC, one of the largest IT solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), is building…

“Army Private Cloud” RFP Released

By G C Network | July 28, 2010

Last week the US Army released  a procurement solicitation for the Army Private Cloud.  This $249M solicitation calls for a 1-year base period with four, 1-year options. Department of the…

Cloud Musings Direct Launches

By G C Network | July 15, 2010

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…

CloudExpo Europe 2010: Not Your Father’s Prague

By G C Network | June 30, 2010

When my good friend Jeremy Geelan invited me to speak at CloudExpo Europe in Prague, Czech Republic my imagination went into overdrive.  Being a child of the 60’s and a…

NCOIC Plenary Highlights Collaboration and Interoperability

By G C Network | June 29, 2010

Last week in Brussels, Belgium, the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium highlighted it’s support of collaboration and interoperability through an information exchange session with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and…

GovLoop “Member of the Week”

By G C Network | June 22, 2010

Thank you to Radiah Givens-Nunez and GovLoop for the honor of being their Member of the Week for June 21-25, 2010. Created in 2008, GovLoop is an online social network…

Presentations from the NCOIC Cloud Computing sessions held earlier this month have been posted on-line in the Federal Cloud Computing wiki. The event featured speakers from IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, HP, and Salesforce. Access is free, but registration is required.


Cloud Computing for Net-Centric Operations
  • NCOIC – Bob Marcus (Leader NCOIC Cloud Computing Team). Slides.”Cloud Computing for Net-Centric Operations”
  • HP – Shawn Sami (Chief Technologist, HP Software Federal). Slides.”Secure Cloud Computing and RACE”
  • Salesforce.com – Peter Coffee (Director of Platform Research). Slides.”Building Mission-Critical SaaS Applications”
  • IBM – David Lindquist (Cloud Computing Chief Architect and IBM Fellow). Slides.”IBM’s Perspective on Cloud Computing”
  • Cisco – Glenn Dasmalchi (Chief of Staff, Cisco CTO Office). Slides. – James Urquhart (Marketing Manager for Cloud Computing)”Cloud Computing: Trends and Opportunity”
  • Microsoft – Stan Freck (Director, Software + Services – US Public Sector). Slides.”Software + Services – the next generation of computing”

    NCOIC Cloud Computing Ad Hoc Team Sessions (8:00 – 5:00)

    Morning: Enterprise Cloud Computing. Standards, and Open Source
  • NCOIC – Bob Marcus. Slides.”Open Questions for Enterprise Cloud Computing”
    Open Questions for Enterprise Cloud Computing
  • Dataline- Kevin Jackson. Slides.Report on Enterprise Cloud Computing Session at the World Summit of Cloud Computing
  • Report on Enterprise Cloud Computing Session at the World Summit of Cloud Computing
  • Elastra – Stuart Charlton, Cloud middleware using markup languages (ECML, EDML). Slides.
  • Eucalyptus – Sunil Soman, Open Source Infrastructure similar to Amazon. Slides.”Eucalyptus Open Source Cloud Computing System”
  • 3Tera -Bert Armijo, Cloudware architecture. Slides.”Clouds Don’t have Boundaries”
  • Sun – Joseph Mangin. Slides.”Cloud Computing”
  • Open Cloud Consortium – Robert Grossman, Open Cloud Consortium. Slides. “The Open Cloud Consortium”
  • Open Grid Forum – Craig Lee, Open Grid Forum. Slides. “Cloud, Standards, and Net-Centric Operations from an OGF Perspective”

Afternoon: Cloud Computing for Tactical Networks

  • DoD OSD NII – John Daly. Slides.”Cloud Computing for Tactical Networks”
  • Dataline- Kevin Jackson. Slides.”SOA-R and Cloud Computing in the US Government”
  • DARPA – James Snyder discussed at NCOIC Plenary Panel. Slides.”Disruption Tolerant Networking Program”
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