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Living Out the Benefits of Working in the Cloud
The list of advantages gained by moving business applications to the cloud is extensive: zero asset ownership, anywhere-anytime access, built-in high availability & disaster recovery, and many more. As a cloud architect, I routinely espouse these benefits when talking to clients about future solutions. More recently however, I had the…
Open Source, Cutting the Cost of a Gallon of Milk
As consumers, we routinely go to the grocery store in search of the goods we need for our daily lives, each of which is conveniently labelled with a nice little yellow tag indicating the price we'll pay at the cash register. Have you ever stopped to think about how that…
ECSC Review - Cyber Attack On U.S. Soil Targeting Critical Public Utility Infrastructure in Illinois
*Editor's Update: On November 22, the Department of Homeland Security, along with the FBI, concluded that the event discussed in this blog was not a cyber attack after all. However, the risks and exposure of the public utility infrastructure discussed in this posting remain the same.* A cyber attack halted…
NYSE Technologies Opens Up Trading Technology with Middleware as Open Source
As the first week of November 2011 began, the New York Stock Exchange Technologies rolled out its new open source & standards middleware in a push to further make the trading markets vendor neutral. That a firm so reliant on smoothly functioning and secure technology has done this provides another…
Blog Series #1: Building a Smarter, Faster and Cheaper Government
Moving State and Local Government to the Open Source and Cloud Technology Model In the coming weeks, the Emergent blog will feature a series of topics discussing various open source and cloud technologies that state and local governments could adopt to save money and run more efficiently. This introduction is…
MCM Forward: Marathoning Around the Globe
As we mentioned last week, Emergent Consulting sponsored the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) Forward, which enables deployed service members to participate in a scheduled marathon race. Listed below are some links showing some of the racers in Afghanistan and aboard the USS George Bush. To train for and race in…
2011 MCM Forward: Cheer for Our Overseas Service Members.
Anyone who lives in the Washington DC area understands what a hugely important and symbolic event that is the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM). Each year, at least 20,000 runners complete the 26.2 miles and finish at the Iwo Jima memorial - that great symbol of Marine courage and determination. Among…
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