` I’ve been traveling a bit recently and wanted to share with you the top 10 questions I’m most frequently asked about right now by IT leadership and executive professionals evaluating cloud investments in 2012. 1. Should I build my own or rent one from someone else? Your teams are already doing it without your knowledge. [...]
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1 pipe. Many uses. One of the questions that CIO’s, IT leadership and Accreditation Authorities are dealing with is how to blend the economic benefits of cloud infrastructures with both the real and perceived security challenges presented by this new Service Delivery method. When faced with inflection points like this I’ve often found that [...]
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The Cloud is dead. Well. Version 1 is. Long Live the Cloud! I was asked to give some remarks this week about innovation, ideation, to characterize the past 4 years spent working with cloud infrastructures and to share some thoughts on the next development cycle. Travel back in time for a minute with me; May [...]
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People who write software write bugs. Anyone who has been a producer or consumer of technology knows this maxim to be true. Its how you deal with these exceptions through redundancy, fault vectors, recovery scenarios and managed customer experience that are important. Today, there are many organizations impacted by the outage of a contemporary public [...]
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Every previous generation intimates that its circumstances were more difficult than the present and for each there are storied and anecdotal ways of relating the harsher state of affairs: “when I was your age, I had to walk to school, both ways, up hill, in the snow, without any shoes” or “when I was your [...]
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I hope all my readers had an enjoyable holiday, and are gearing up for the New Year. 2010 has been a big year of progress towards the government cloud, so I thought a retrospective post highlighting the progress was very much in order. When I launched this blog I warned readers my “head was in [...]
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Lynn Schnurr, the director of Intelligence Community Information Management for the Army Intelligence Chief Information Officer, gave a presentation at the Army IT Day in Vienna, Va. earlier this month. During her presentation, she discussed a handful of new technologies and initiatives that the Army is currently developing to help the warfighter on the battlefield [...]
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In a previous post on GovCloudTalk, we discussed the steps that government agencies can take towards embracing cloud computing. During the course of the shift to the cloud, resources across multiple datacenters are aggregated and work as a single resource pool. Unfortunately, many datacenter managers overlook the actual physics of moving the data between those [...]
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As we’ve discussed in the past, Obama’s technology team, including Vivek Kundra, the country’s CIO, is looking for ways in which the federal government can improve its IT acquisition process and adopt technologies that can make the government operate more effectively and efficiently. Last Thursday, Kundra announced a series of steps that the government is [...]
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