Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Teleology Systems Introduces CloudeFX at DoDIIS


Next week at DoDIIS, NJVC will be showcasing a few of our government cloud computing partners. One of the most exciting of these is the Cloud Service Orchestration Framework by Teleology Systems, Inc. The following is a guest post from Mr. Werner Adams, Teleology VP for Business Development.
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Today many Government organizations are attempting to leverage cloud computing technologies to spur innovation. Most have at least one cloud service and are embracing the cloud with the promise of efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. Cloud computing is seen by many as the next wave of information technology for individuals, companies, and governments. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has been working to cast a vision fostering an "apps economy" for open-source technologies and mandating that all agencies begin moving applications to cloud infrastructures right away. The cloud ecosystem consists of many technology vendors that offer support for public or private clouds and many of those vendors offer specific Software as a Service applications that utilize the cloud to achieve very useful results.

Our company, Teleology Systems, Inc. (TSI) will debut our game changing new product at DoDIIS in conjunction with our Partner, NJVC LLC. Our product, CloudeFX, provides a way for users to create their own applications and workflows in the Cloud. CloudeFX is a robust software framework that is a self-contained, vendor agnostic service development environment where anyone can build custom applications from a browser - without programming. Applications produced using CloudeFX also provide the ability to consume external web services such as geospatial data thus creating a new cloud-based application in a matter of hours opposed to days, weeks, or months. Subsequently with CloudeFX, newly orchestrated applications can be published for consumption by shared communities of interest. Our unique capability to create and publish cloud-based applications will dramatically reduce time and costs to create new applications and workflows as well as connecting to existing applications quickly reducing the total cost of ownership.


WERNER ADAM / VP Business Development
Teleology Systems, Inc
23749 Rolling Fork Way / Gaithersburg / MD  20882
Mobile: 908-512-4000
Fax: 301-972-3906



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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Cloud Computing Highlighted at DoDIIS 2011


Are you going to DoDIIS? Schedule for May 1-5, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan, the conference highlights the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) commitment to developing and maintaining secure and reliable networks for Department of Defense personnel, services and information technology customers. This year's 3,000 attendees will focus on the "Secure and Collaborative Intelligence in Defense of the Nation" theme.
In an earlier interview DIA CIO Grant Scheider discussed the agency views on cloud computing:


“We’ve got three elements of the cloud architecture or infrastructure for the customer’s mission focus. One is our data layer, which is having our data available and its native authoritative location so we don’t have to keep making copies of databases, if you will. The second piece is our identity and access manager, which is the regulator of who gets to see and access which data. And the third piece is the application environment, which needs to move to a widget environment where the customer can select the various tools to provide their operational capabilities and then those applications would be leveraged by the identity access manager to give them access into the appropriate data sources.”

I will be there as well. With our partners, NJVC will be presenting an exciting set of secure cloud services offerings. Provisioned from the teams HSPD-12 compliant, PIV/CAC card enabled secure cloud platform, these services are available through our GSA Infrastructure-as-a-Service blanket purchase agreement. Unlike traditional RFP that entails capital expenditures and inordinate procurement delays, our cloud services are provisioned from an online link just as if you were using Google to do an online search or Netflix to rent a movie. After establishing an account, government organizations are charged only for actual use. The services we will be presenting include:
  • Geodata Search & Publishing Service courtesy of GeoEye Analytics
  • Analytics and Pipeline Services courtesy of Appistry
  • Cloud Service Orchestration Framework courtesy of Teleology Services Inc
  • Cloud Application Performance Monitoring courtesy of Visual Network Services
  • Secure Infrastructure-as-a-Service courtesy of Team CLEXO
Access to these advanced analytics capabilities will not require hardware and software purchases or months and months of operational delay. Our cloud services provide:
  • Increased Speed to Mission Capability
  • Drastic Reduction in O&S Cost
  • The elimination of capability related capital expenditures; and
  • Compliance with the Federal “Cloud First Policy”
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Washington DC a Cloud Computing Trendsetter!

A TechJournal South article last week named Washington, DC as a leading trendsetter in cloud computing. Citing a Microsoft sponsored survey, conducted by 7th Sense research, D.C. was highlighted as particullarly receptive to cloud computing. The survey interviewed information technology decision makers (ITDM) and found the following:


  • 81 percent of ITDMs in Washington agree that IT must enable workers to work anywhere at any time.
  • 46 percent of these respondents believe that cloud services can support and enable a remote workforce.
  • 26 percent of ITDMs say the cloud enabled them to start a new line of business.
  • 28 percent of D.C. enterprise organizations are hiring more staff with cloud computing experience
  • 14 percent are hiring more staff in general as a result of cloud services
  • 50 percent of D.C. ITDMs said they would be more likely to purchase a cloud solution if they could work with a certified partner
  • 32 percent of respondents hired vendors to assist in deploying cloud projects.


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Monday, April 4, 2011

Melvin Greer Cited by IBM for Cloud Computing Innovation

Congratulations to my good friend Melvin Greer for being awarded IBM's first ever ACE Award!!

“Melvin Greer, Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow has won IBM’s first ever Awarding Customer Excellence (ACE) Award for Innovation, which recognizes his work in applying Cloud computing toward the development of innovative solutions and mission applications that demonstrate creativity, resourcefulness and real-world problem solving. Mr. Greer will be presented the award by Steve Mills, IBM Senior VP and Group Executive Software & Systems on April 12th during the general session at the IBM Impact 2011 Global Conference. ”. 

I have been collaborating with Mel on cloud computing for over two years. He currently serves as Vice Chairman on the NCOIC Cloud Computing Working Group and as the industry lead on the NIST USG Business Use Case Working Group. The ACE award session The session will be attend by 10,000+ people and broadcast live to a global audience.



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