HP Brings EDS Division into it's cloud plans

The Street reported earlier this week that Hewlett Packard's EDS division has won a $111 million contract with the Department of Defense (DoD) that could eventually support the U.S. military's cloud-computing efforts. EDS confirmed it will work with DISA officials to conduct security reviews on DoD networks, databases, systems and applications. It will also evaluate DoD security policies, which could further boost the department's cloud strategy. Even though security is universally seen as a key barriers for cloud adoption, this move seems to indicate a willingness on DISA's part to work through the issues that can support eventual widespread cloud deployments. Since EDS also has the Navy-Marine Corps Internet (NMCI) contract through 2010, the hard won experience that EDS has gained from that painful chapter could possibly be leveraged to accelerate cloud services to the desktop. It could also give HP a leg up on the upcoming Navy Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) and Next Generation Enterprise Networks (NGEN) competitive bids.

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NCOIC Cloud Working Group

The NCOIC will be holding a cloud computing working group on December 10th during plenary session in Costa Mesa, CA. The session focus will be "Requirements for Enterprise Cloud Computing". The current agenda is:

• 8:00 - 9:00 HP, David Ryan (Chief Architect, HP Federal Technology Solution Group)
  "Secure Cloud Computing"
• 9:00 - 10:00 Salesforce.com, Peter Coffee (Director of Platform Research)
  "Building Mission-Critical SaaS Applications"
• 10:00 - 11:00 IBM, David Lindquist (Cloud Computing chief architect and IBM Fellow)
  "IBM's Perspective on Cloud Computing"
• 11:00 - 12:00 Cisco, Glenn Dasmalchi (Chief of Staff, Cisco CTO Office)
  "Cloud Computing: Trends and Opportunity"

A follow-up session is also planned for December 11th.

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HP CTO On the Future

In a recent Web Guild article, Shane Robinson, Chief Strategy & Technology Office for HP outilined his belief that we are in the early stages of a major shift. As he sees it, some major trends are;

1) cloud computing and everything as a service
2) quantum leap improvements in user experience
3) search will be done for you and not by you
4) from a static web to an intelligent dynamic web
5) context, relevance and availability of information everywhere
6) everyone will be a publisher and content creator
7) crowd sourcing will be a game changer
8) business intelligence will be real time

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DISA selects HP for RACE

Byte and Switch reported today that the Department of Defense (DoD) has confirmed that HP will help the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) deploy a major cloud computing infrastructure. Grid Today reported that HP today announced that it will be supplying the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with scalable technology to enable its Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to deploy a cloud computing infrastructure.

According to Grid Today, HP will provide DISA a broad array of HP products, software and services to implement and support the cloud infrastructure. HP software featured in the solution includes HP Operations Orchestration, HP Server Automation, HP Service Manager, HP Operations Manager, HP Systems Insight Manager and HP ProLiant Essentials. HP will also provide ProLiant server blades, implementation services and on-site operations management.

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