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Private Digital Network Services (PDNS) and partners will provide its national,  Private Digital Network   (PDN) core and a suite of highly sought after services to the Interoperability Clearinghouse Agile Cloud effort. Its partners include Gannett Company Inc ., Global Interactive Solutions , ICON Voice , and others. Gannett designed and implemented the PDN to support its national base of 300+ business units, which include well known digital properties such as CareerBuilder.com and Cars.com , and media properties such as DefenseNews  and USA Today .  Through a joint services agreement, Gannett has enabled PDNS to leverage this high capacity, national,   private   network asset to provide network and hosted services to commercial and ST/Local government entities. These services are now being extended to the ICH Agile Cloud effort.  Applications and services to be provided include high speed, hosted voice/video/data, content delivery, virtual machine and storage provisioning and disa...

The 2nd Agile Cloud Environment event will be held on May 21, 2014 at TIA Headquarters. This event will focus on development of the Agile Cloud Environment Service Catalog. The meeting will feature a series of 30 minute presentations during which prospective government users of the "Third Rail" will voice their desires and expectations with regard to the postulated cloud services. This event will also serve as an opportunity for industry attendees to offer queries of their own to the government presenters. The initial " Vendor Service Registration " period starts now and will close on May 21st. Any company interested in registering their service can do so at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PD7PV58 . There is a strong preference for services that  have following characteristics: - Open and well documented APIs - Available architectural artifacts as outlined in the PM ISE Information Interoperability Presentation ( http://www.slideshare.net/kvjacksn/pm-ise-in...

I have worked with many product managers on a product vision exercise. In my observation the place where the product managers get hung up the most is when they confuse product vision for product definition. To use an analogy, product vision is a trailer and product definition is a movie. When you're watching a movie trailer it excites you even though you fully don't know how good or bad the movie will be. Abstract and unfinished A trailer is a sequence of shots that are abstract enough not to reveal too much details about the movie but clear enough to give you the dots that your imagination could start connecting. Some of the best visions are also abstract and unfinished that leave plenty of opportunities for imagination. Product visions should focus on "why" and "what" and not on "how" and most importantly should have a narrative to excite people to buy into it and refine it later on. Vision should inspire the definition of a product and not defin...

Last Wednesday, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret) John T. Brennan, Interoperability Clearinghouse (ICH) Executive Director, kicked off the Agile Cloud collaboration. This industry-wide effort is targeted at developing an open and inclusive cloud service brokerage environment capable of rapidly provisioning innovative technologies to the US Government on a fee for service basis. This cloud services environment will favor existing commercial services over custom development, will incorporate industry standards and will enforce a consistent implementation environment. Additional key characteristics will include: Interoperable technologies; A consistent acquisition model; Standard technical assessment framework; and a Standardized service level management model. A key difference between this and other government focused cloud computing efforts is that the Agile Cloud environment will be funded and implemented by industry. The kick-off event's keynote speaker was Polly Schaffer,  Industry Innovation...

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The Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (ITAAC) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) are announcing a slate of innovative leaders to serve as facilitators for the upcoming  " Agile Sourcing Environment for Commercial Cloud " brainstorming session being held in Alexandria, VA on April 23, 2014. Enjoying a great response thus far, industry participants include Boeing, Oracle, Google,SAP, Leidos and Capgemini. Government participants include the US Navy, US Army, US House of Representatives and GSA. The confirmed facilitator lineup is: • Prospective Customers & Missions: Phil Dixon - Google • Tentative Service Catalog: Roger Bernhardt - Boeing • Governance and Management: Colleen Dealey - Cloudbound • Service Provisioning: Dave Rose - Oracle • Service Level Agreements: Angela Smith - GSA • Sourcing and Acquisition Procedures: Young Nam - Virtustream Due to conference room limitations and in response to numerous request,  "Virtua...

Associate Spotlight Interview with Kevin L. Jackson MBO Associate Since 10/2013 1)    Tell us a little bit about what you do. I am the CEO and founder of GovCloud Network, LLC . In a consultative role, I help companies develop and execute targeted media strategies via social media channels to over 1.5 million professionals across 20 industry verticals. With a specialty in cloud computing, we and our partners also provide the critical technical training and business education needed to thrive through the use of advanced information technology. For more information, please visit www . GovCloudNetwork.com . 2)    What led you to become an Independent Consultant? My position as a senior executive at my previous firm didn't give me the latitude to participate fully in the rapidly growing cloud computing consultative market. I felt that the rewards of becoming an independent consultant in this business area far outweighed the risks. 3)    How has the independent career path changed your...