December NCOIC Plenary Presentations

VMware lays out roadmap to the clouds.

By G C Network | June 10, 2008

Earlier this year, Diane Greene, VMware President and Co-Founder, described cloud computing as the final evolutionary step for virtualization. Reza Malekzadeh, Senior Director of Products and Marketing reinforced that view…

Mario Dal Canto at Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East

By G C Network | June 9, 2008

According to Mario Dal Canto, “Virtual Cloud Computing represents the next wave of virtualization and offers significant market opportunities by providing a new, simpler, and much more pervasive platform for…

Microsoft cloud fits and starts.

By G C Network | June 9, 2008

Microsoft’s dance with cloud comuting is very puzzling. Point 1: The June 5th Wall Street Journal article discusses the friction between Steve Ballmer and Bill Gagtes over NetDocs, described by…

Salesforce.com & Google

By G C Network | June 6, 2008

A short promotional video on Salesforce and the Google cloud. Follow me at https://Twitter.com/Kevin_Jackson

Gamers now have their own cloud.

By G C Network | June 5, 2008

Valve, a Bellevue, Washington based entertainment software and technology company, recently announced that they will use the cloud computing paradigm as their next major update. Called “Steam Cloud” the service…

Is IBM serious about cloud computing?

By G C Network | June 5, 2008

Last week in Eye on the Enterprise, Joe McKendrick, highlighted IBM VP Steve Mills’ apparently less than enthusiastic statement regarding cloud computing. In an April 30th interview with CNET’s Dan…

VMware and Cloud Computing

By G C Network | June 3, 2008

VMware President and Chief Executive Officer Diane Greene,in her keynote address at the JP Morgan Technology Conference in Boston, described cloud computing as the final evolutionary step for virtualization. In…

DISA Cloud Computing Plans

By G C Network | June 3, 2008

During last month’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Partnership Conference, cloud computing debuted as a “top priority” for senior leadership. Speakers described a future state when users would access computing…

The Cloud Computing Portal

By G C Network | May 30, 2008

The Cloud Computing Portal is a community edited database that makes the cloud vendor selection process easier, by helping you find a cloud provider who supports the environment you need.…

HP in the Cloud

By G C Network | May 29, 2008

In “HP weds cloud…” , Hewlett-Packard has apparently outlined their approach to cloud computing. They are merging their high-performance computing unit with the Web 2.0 and cloud computing infrastructure businesses.…

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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