"The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server
infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that is
interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS, but can also support multiple
interfaces such as Google's AppEngine and the Sun Cloud open API," says Dr
Rich Wolski, Co-Founder & CTO of Eucalyptus Systems, who will be giving a
breakout session on the Eucalyptus open source software infrastructure at
SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), which will
take place on October 6, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in
Washington, DC.
Wolski's session will focus on specific features of the system that are
designed to enable rapid development, prototyping, and deployment of local
computing clouds, particularly for debugging and/or application development
purposes. He will discuss our experiences in building and supp... (more)
Not only does the U.S. government implement top security standards for many
U.S. corporations, it is also held to the highest degree of security and
expected to be virtually indestructible. Thus, government agencies must
ensure they have a solid security foundation of backend IT controls, and
auditing is critical to an institution's overall security infrastructure.
"With recent high-profile data breaches, firewalls and end-point security
controls aren't enough anymore," notes Philip Liebermam, Founder & President
of Lieberman Software, who will be giving a breakout session entitle... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Fig Leaf Software, a full service Web
design, development and training company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 1st
Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), which will take place on
October 6, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Fig Leaf Software is a premier, full service Value Added Reseller, Web
design, development and training company. For over 17 years, Fig Leaf has
helped organizations overcome business challenges through the expert
implementation of technology and award-winning design.
Fig Leaf Software’s f... (more)
Kevin Jackson Joins SYS-CON's GovITExpo as Tech Chair
I am humbled and more than pleased to serve as the Technical Chair of
SYS-CON’s 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com.
To highlight the importance of this conference, I only need to repeat the
guiding principles driving President Obama’s technology agenda:
Innovation in the Economy: Drive Economic Growth and Solve National Problems
By Deploying a 21st Century Information Infrastructure
- The President believes that modernized infrastructure is a necessary part
of the foundation for long term economic stabil... (more)
How can government organizations offer public data sets cost effectively yet
create tremendous impact in the private sector?
That is the question that will be asked and answered by Omer Trajman,
Director of Cloud and Virtualization for Vertica, in a breakout session that
he will be giving next month at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference
& Expo (GovITExpo), which will take place on October 6, 2009, at the Hyatt
Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
The session will be entitled "Accessing Public Data via the Cloud" and
Trajman be discussing how, for example, private... (more)
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