Reports from the Trenches: What’s Working in Virtualization and Green IT, moderated by Larry Hale, Director, Office of Infrastructure Optimization, GSA

Panelists:

  • Jack Baxter, Manager, IT&S, Government Printing Office
  • Richard Fichera, Director, Blade Systems Strategy, HP
  • Bernard Golden, CEO, HyperStratus
  • Dale Wicklizer, US Public Sector CTO, NetApp

Larry Hale has some starter questions for the panel:

1. Biggest challenges in adopting virtualization?

Jack Baxter: Greatest challenges: application qualification, funding, hardware and how it’s going to be used.  Heterogeneous environment calls for a lot of up-front research.

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Cloud Computing in Government: A Progress Report, moderated by Robert Ames of IBM

Panelists:

  • Doug Bourgeois, Director, National Business Center, Dept. of the Interior
  • Casey Coleman, CIO, GSA
  • William (Bill) Turnbull, Associate CIO for Advanced Technology and Systems Integration, Department of Energy

Robert Ames of IBM opens, sets context for panel and quips on the 4th Cloud Delivery model, “Hype as a Service”, via David Vap.

Casey Coleman, opens saying hard to give progress report at this early stage, but there is a lot of momentum for cloud computing in the government.  A big part of that momentum is the recently launched Apps.gov site. 

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