Server Virtualization (3BJK)
Pilot Wiki Refresh for the formation of an Adaptable Computing Infrastructure Community of Practice. See new Wiki pages. (3UXM)
Background, Upcoming Events, and Initial Work from November 2006; and Semanticcommunity.net: Community Infrastructure Sandbox for 2008 (3U98)
December 6, 2007, NCOIC's Utility Computing, Grids, and Virtualization Session (3U0Y)
- Bob Marcus (NCOIC) – Agenda (3U18)
- Bob Marcus (NCOIC) – Overview of Distributed Virtualization (3U0Z)
- John Daly (OSD NII) - DoD Computing Infrastructure (3U10)
- Jose Fortes (University of Florida) - Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing (3U11)
- David Chappell (Oracle) - Next Generation Grid Enabled SOA (3U12)
- Chris Smith (OGF)- Building Blocks for the Grid (3U13)
- Also December 6, 2007, NCOIC Plenary, Dr. Craig A. Lee, President, Open Grid Forum, OGF and NCOIC (3U19)
- Thomas Goepel (HP)– Evolution to the Next Generation Data Center (3U14)
- Roger Smith (US Army) - Simulation as a Service (3U15)
- Mark Cathcart (IBM)- From On Demand to Cloud Computing (3U16)
- See December 13, 2007, Cover Story from Business Week Google and the Wisdom of Clouds: A lofty new strategy aims to put incredible computing power in the hands of many. (3U17)
- Open Grid Forum Talk by J.S Hurley and D. Shaw of Boeing Virtualization and Grids: What's Next? (3U18)
Background (3UJF)
- Preface: This Wiki page does not mean that we have formed a new CoP yet, but are just using this Wiki page to support the SOA CoP community process to plan our next conference and what the participants want to do. The next conference call of the SOA CoP will discuss both a Track and the formation of a new Community of Practice on "Distributed Virtualization" or "Adaptable Computing Infrastructure" at the 5th SOA for E-Government Conference, April 30-May 1, 2008. For additional background see the joint article with the NCIOC for GridToday.Com: The Leading Source for Global News and Information from the evolving Grid ecosystem, including Grid, SOA, Virtualization, Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT, and the following history: (3U0W)
- This Wiki page was started in November 2006 to capture two meetings that the SICoP and the SOA CoP were asked to participate in and the participants requested that we start the Federal CoP building process. (3U9B)
- A Track on Services: From the Fabric to the User at the 4th SOA Conference and the NCOIC (Bob Marcus) offered support for that and organized a Session at the recent NCOIC Conference in Florida. (3U9C)
- Both the SOA CoP and the NCOIC have announced this public page resource and the private NCIOC Kavi space. (3U9D)
- The components from the Federal SOA Jump Start Kit, which includes a non-intrusive VMware demonstration (downloadable or DVD), are registered at ET.GOV (3U9E)
Upcoming Events (3UEZ)
- February 5, 2008, SICoP Special Conference on Building Semantically Interoperable Applications. See Part 2 (10:15 – 11:15 a.m.): Semantic Interoperability with Large Data Stores and Organizations (3UF0)
- April 30-May 1, 2008, 5th SOA for E-Government Conference: Our Space - Connecting Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, SOA, and the Semantic Web for Government 2.0 (Making It Easier to Do!). MITRE Conference Center, McLean, Virginia. (3UF1)
- May 18-22, 2008, SemTech 2008: The Semantic Technology Conference, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California. Program Advisory Board. (3UF2)
- September 29-30, 2008, 6th SOA for E-Government Conference. MITRE Conference Center, McLean, Virginia. (3UF3)
Initial Work from November 2006 - See Above For Current Work (3U99)
Best Practices Committee (3BMM)
Suggested Guidelines for Communities of Practice (3BMN)
Initial Discussions on Forming a Community of Practice on Server Consolidation, Virtualization, and Other Best Practices to Support the FEA IT Infrastructure Optimization Line of Business (3BHQ)
Five Step Process: (3BMO)
- 1. CoP Mission Statement: What the CoP intends to accomplish? (3BMP)
- 2. CoP Membership List: Who are the partitioners? (3BMQ)
- 3. CoP Strategy: What will the CoP produce? (3BMU)
- 4. Conference Call (with items 1-3 entered into the Wiki or Semantic Wiki space) (3BMY)
- 5. Commitments to collaboratively publish and edit trusted reference knowledge sources in the Wiki or Semantic Wiki space (3BMZ)
- Background from Recent Events: (3BHR)
AMD/Novell Best Practices Series - Hosky Communications: (3BHV)
- Title: Leading-Edge Government, IT Management – Server Consolidation, Virtualization and Other Best Practices (3BHW)
- Date: November 16, 2006 (3BHX)
- Time: 8 - 10:30 a.m. (3BHY)
- Location: American Electronics Association, David Packard Conference Center, Suite 600, North Building, 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC (3BHZ)
- Some Questions Considered: (3BI0)
- What are the major issues being discussed in the blogs? (3BI1)
- What are some alternative architectures and chip sets that you should understand as you migrate or consolidate Unix-based applications? (3BI2)
- What steps can be taken to realize efficiencies in performance, security and cost to accommodate increasing server consolidation? (3BI3)
- Description: This timely seminar looks at new best practices that government and commercial organizations are adopting to streamline IT using server consolidation, virtualization, and open source methods. (3BI4)
- Agenda: (3BI5)
- Introduction: George Warren, Director, Worldwide Public Sector, AMD (3BJL)
- Issues in the Architecture: SOA and Semantic Web, Brand Niemann, Data Architect, US EPA (3BI6)
- FCW Article (3BI7)
- Presentation: Slides with Specific Example: National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) (3BI8)
- Performance and the Role of Architecture in Server Consolidation, Tim Daneliuk, Lead Data Center Architect, Novell Americas (replacing Carl Drisko, Data Center Best Practices Leader, Novell Consulting (3BI9)
- See Novell and Microsoft sign agreement that “bridges the divide between open source and proprietary software” (Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO). (3BIA)
- Presentation: Slides (3BIB)
- Advanced Virtualization Support Using Quad Core, Margaret Lewis, Commercial Solutions Director, AMD: A glimpse into the future of the Quad Core Processor Road Map. (3BIC)
- Discussion and Some Next Steps to Support the FEA IO LoB (3BIE)
FCW Events and Intel Premier IT Professional Present (3BJN)
- Title: Harnessing the Power of Virtualization End-to-End (3BIF)
- Date: November 30, 2006 (3BIG)
- Time: (3BIH)
- Location: Horizon Ballroom of the Ronald Reagan Building (3BII)
- URL: http://events.fcw.com/event/VIRT and http://www.intel.com/it/ipip (3BIJ)
- Session topics include: (3BIK)
- Forecast: End-to-End Virtualization (3BIL)
- Intel Platforms Roadmap (3BIM)
- Desktop Virtualization and Multiple OS's (3BIN)
- Graphical Data Visualization (3BIO)
- Intel IT: Client Virtualization and PC Fleet Best Practices (3BIP)
- Intel IT: Data Center Virtualization and Best Practices (3BIQ)
- SI Roundtable Discussion (3BIR)
- Agenda: (3BIS)
- 7:30AM-8:00AM: Continental Breakfast / Technology Showcase (3BIT)
- 7:30AM-12:30PM: Registration Open (3BIU)
- 8:00AM-8:10AM: Welcome (3BIV)
- 8:10AM-8:40AM: Forecast: End-to-End Virtualization (3BIY)
- Shawn McCarthy, Government ITO Program Director, IDC Government Insights (3BIZ)
- 8:40AM-9:25AM: Intel Platforms Roadmap (3BJ0)
- John Hengeveld, Principal Business Strategiest, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel (3BJ1)
- 9:30AM-10:15AM: Desktop Virtualization and Multiple OS's (3BJ2)
- 10:15AM-10:35AM: Break / Technology Showcase (3BJ5)
- 10:35AM-11:20AM: Graphical Data Visualization on the Apple Intel Platform (3BJ6)
- Themis Tzamarias, System Engineering Manager, Apple (3BJ7)
- 11:20AM-12:00PM: Intel IT: Client Virtualization and PC Fleet Best Practices (3BJ8)
- Dave Buchholz, IT Client Architect, Intel (3BJ9)
- 12:00PM-12:45PM: SI Panel Discussion (3BJA)
- Shawn McCarthy (Moderator), Government IT Program Director, IDC Government Insights (3BJB)
- 12:45PM-1:30PM: Lunch and Prize Drawing (3BJC)
- 1:30PM-2:00PM: Technology Showcase Open - View Demonstrations on: (3BJD)