CHANTILLY, Va., March 28, 2013 — NJVC®
will lead efforts to provide secure cloud brokerage services to the Network
Centric Operations Industry Consortium
using its first-to-market Cloudcuity™ Management Portal during a series of 2013 geospatial community
cloud demonstrations that will be
conducted on behalf of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). NJVC’s
partners are The Aerospace Corporation,
The
Boeing Company and Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC).
Hosted
through the secure Cloudcuity Management Portal, NCOIC members will have access
to CloudScreen™, an automated set of evaluation tools that:
- Determines cloud infrastructure feasibility
- Estimates cloud infrastructure cost and benefits
- Conducts physical capacity for cloud translations
- Matches application requirements to cloud provider capabilities based on features and functionality
- Compares provider costs and quality of service
“NJVC is honored that NCOIC chose the Cloudcuity
Management Portal as its brokerage of choice to offer cloud services to the
geospatial community,” said Kevin L. Jackson, vice president and general manager of NJVC
Cloudcuity. “This NCOIC demonstration is
significant as it will represent a new procurement model for the geospatial community,
which is at the frontlines of protecting and responding to national and
international crises in times of conflict. Procurement of cloud services will
be less complicated, making deployments to the cloud easier and more efficient
than ever before. This will benefit first
responders and other non-traditional NGA users.”
Team
members’ unique contributions include:
·
The Boeing Company: Open architecture GeoServices pooling
through a Boeing-developed Geospatial Interoperability Dashboard through
integration initially using several solutions: Ozone dashboards, OpenGeo
platform and Boeing’s geospatial data server.
·
The Aerospace
Corporation: An OpenStack-based cloud and a virtual
organization management system patterned after the one used by the Worldwide
Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid
·
OGC: Expertise
to monitor, offer advice and report on the use of OGC standards throughout the
demonstration period
Once
feasibility is assured and providers are selected, Cloudcuity Management Portal
users will leverage the integrated virtual application and data center manager
services to design virtual data centers through a user-friendly console. Once
the design is finalized and approved through an automated review process,
virtual resources will be provisioned simultaneously, across the group of selected
providers through the cloud service bus, which has application program
interface connections to different cloud providers.
The Cloudcuity
Management Portal also will provide advanced monitoring, consolidated billing,
chargeback and policy governance to ensure provider compliance and NCOIC
satisfaction.
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With a
focus on information technology automation, NJVC® specializes in
supporting highly secure, complex IT enterprises in business- and
mission-critical environments, particularly for the intelligence and defense
communities. We offer a wide breadth of IT and strategic solutions to our
customers, ranging from strategic consulting to managed flexible services in
five business areas: Cloud Services, Cyber Security, Data Center Services, IT
Services and Print Solutions. We partner with our customers to support their
missions with security-cleared, dedicated and talented employees ready to
deploy globally. To learn more, visit www.njvc.com.
Contact
Michelle Snyder, NJVC,
703.893.7609, michelle.snyder@njvc.com
Audra Capas, 5StarPR, 703.437.9301, audra@5starpr.com
Audra Capas, 5StarPR, 703.437.9301, audra@5starpr.com
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