Below is an outline of Cloud Slam'12 Tracks and Topics. Next Generation Cloud Platform (The Road to PaaS) Last year we observed a growing number of cloud platforms popping up on a surface, while existing platforms are maturing and undergoing dramatic change in recent months, including a focus on multi-language support, multi-cloud deployment capabilities and common developer services. This track will examine the transformation of platform serv...

The GTSI Charity 5K Run/Walk will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2011. This charity race will benefit the Wounded Warrior Project and is a community race organized in partnership with GTSI, corporate sponsors and the DC Road Runners Club. The goal of this event is to honor the daily sacrifices made by the brave men and women in all branches of the United States military and raise awareness for the Wounded Warrior Project charity. Corporate s...

On 28 September 2011 a small number of cyber innovators, computer security practitioners and information assurance experts will gather in an attempt to map out new paths for positive change in the cyber security dynamic. This summit seeks dramatically enhance the state of security and functionality of federal systems as well as in the overall ecosystem of IT we all partake in. Information assurance, IT security, infrastructure protection, miss...

Announcement: Annual CSADC Federal Cloud Summit - June 22, 2011 If you're in the Federal sector, don't miss this Premiere Cloud Security event and connect with your peers. Vivek Kundra has been invited to kickoff this event and General Services Administration senior executive Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia will be our keynote speaker. Panelists will be made up of industry experts from the FCC, Google, Juniper, BSA, CA Technologies, Mic...

The 3rd Annual Virtual Conference on Cloud Computing will be hosted online from April 18 - 22, 2011. It is global event, covering latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing. Conference panels, workshops, and tutorials are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud computing. Our conference tracks will focus on the following areas: - Cloud for Business, - Technology & Innovation, - Cloud For Public Sector, -...

On December 8, 2009, President Obama issued an Open Government Directive to direct all Federal Government agencies to "take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration." A year has passed since this directive and while government agencies have made significant progress, only 17 of the 29 agencies fully meet the expectations set forth in the memo. While the 12 other agencies are making progress...

This IDC Government Insights web conference will look at how open source software is influencing government data center consolidation. Federal agencies have been mandated to consolidate data centers, and both government IT managers and commercial systems integrators (SIs) are focusing on the selection of open source solutions and open software stacks to help ease this transition. With federal investment, centralized open source solution stacks...

This course will first provide an overview of terrorism and the supporting technologies for data mining. Then it will describe details on data mining technologies, techniques, tools and trends. The applications of data mining to combat terrorism including adaptive data mining real-time data mining, social network analysis, semantic web mining and knowledge management for counter-terrorism will be discussed. Finally prototype systems that utili...

Happy Holidays! There is nothing better than eating a bowl of chili on a cool December evening…. except when it is ALL YOU CAN EAT chili, wings and Nachos AND the proceeds go the Army’s Walter Reed Society. Join dcTechSource.com in a fun filled evening of great wings, hot chili, cold beers, and blatant networking, all while raising money for the Walter Reed Society. You know about Walter Reed. Well the Society provides special ser...