December NCOIC Plenary Presentations

Virtual Machines in Virtual Networks

By G C Network | August 4, 2008

One of the key value propositions in cloud computing is built around increase efficiencies. These eficiencies are diven by the use of virtual machines (VMware, XEN, etc.) and the automated…

SOA-R Interest Grows

By G C Network | August 1, 2008

Interest continue to grow in the use of cloud computing concepts for national security missions. Although some view the idea of a “private cloud” as an oxymoron, I personally see…

Microsoft: “Cloud Computing is the Plan”

By G C Network | July 31, 2008

From the Wireless Business & Technology Cloud Computing News Desk : “Ballmer highlighted software-plus-service, associating it with a ‘platform in the cloud and delivering applications across PCs, phones, TVs, and…

CC Tidbits

By G C Network | July 31, 2008

Interesting tidbits from Maureen O’Gara in Apple, Google, Yahoo & Cloud Computing: Industry gadfly John Dvorak is advancing a theory culled from the blogosphere that Microsoft wants Yahoo for some…

Correlative Analytics: Cloud Computing Google Mindshare

By G C Network | July 30, 2008

Correlative Analytics (A.K.A. “The Google Way of Science“) postulates that extremely large databases of information, starting in the petabyte level, may be sufficient to skip the theory part of the…

What is Cloud Computing? — Another view

By G C Network | July 29, 2008

Irving Wladasky-Berger, chairman emeritus of IBM’s Academy of Technology, recently wrote and article on cloud computing titled “What is Cloud Computing, Anyway?”. The following is my interpretation of a few…

Dark Cloud Computing

By G C Network | July 28, 2008

In his blog article “The Rise of The Dark Cloud” Reuven Cohen wonders about a growing interest in covert computing. Although he briefly mentions malevolent uses of the net, the…

July Military Information Technology magazine

By G C Network | July 25, 2008

This month’s issue of Military Information Technology magazine has the Army’s Chief Information Officer, Lieutenant General Jeffrey A. Sorenson, on the cover. The enclosed special report, titled LANDWARNET Transformation, has…

“The Big Switch” and Intellipedia Highlighted

By G C Network | July 24, 2008

During last week’s SOA-R session, Steven Armentrout referenced “The Big Switch” by Nicholas Carr as a very enlightened view of our changing world. On July 17th, Information Week’s Richard Martin…

Does anybody really know what cloud computing is?

By G C Network | July 23, 2008

Less than 2% of the CIOs in an Infoworld survey said that cloud computing was a priority. The surveyed indicated that server virtualization and server consolidation are their No. 1…

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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