JHC to be Panelist at NIST Industry Day - Dec. 16, 2013

Craig Atkinson, JHC's Chief Technical Officer has been selected to be one of the panelists that will be presenting during this year's NIST Industry Day. The event expects to attract 600 registrants from around the DC Metro area seeking to learn more about the challenges of Cloud computing in the Federal Government.

The industry day will focus on the challenges that the Federal Government is experiencing when it comes to the disruptive technology, specifically around procuring Cloud services and infrastructure. As the landscape for procuring computing power is being transformed by Cloud computing, the industry day will attempt to address the changes in the market that can assist the Government in transforming the way it procures Cloud computing moving forward. The industry day also promises to touch base on the capabilities available in the commercial market space in regards to Cloud web hosting and content management.

JHC Technology will also have a booth set up where you can stop by, meet our team and learn more about what we have cooking in the Cloud today.

The Industry Day will be held at the NIST location at 100 Bureau Drive, Building 101, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 on Monday, December 16th. To register, visit https://www-s.nist.gov/CRS/conf_disclosure.cfm?conf_id=6571

JHC Speaker at SharePoint Saturday, Baltimore, MD

JHC presented at the SharePoint Saturday in Baltimore, MD. The session, "Run an Effective SharePoint Governance Board and Avoid it Being Just a Status Update Meeting" focused on the following topics:

• What is an effective Governance Board? A simple definition with a simple purpose
• How to measure Board's effectiveness
• As a facilitator, how to work with different business groups and manage personalities during Board meetings
• How to get members actively involved
• Tips to avoid being just a Status Update meeting
• What to talk about at Board Meeting
• What not to talk about at Board Meeting
• 5 Key Elements to a successful and productive Board Meeting

Click to view or download a copy of the presentation deck.

Hemant Datta is the COO  for JHC Technology.  He can be reached at hdatta(at)jhctechnology.com, @hdatta, or connect with him on LinkedIn.

JHC to Present at SharePoint Saturday, Baltimore on May 18th

Hemant Datta, Director of Operations at JHC, will be presenting at this month's SharePoint Saturday in Baltimore, MD. The session, "Run an Effective SharePoint Governance Board and Avoid it Being Just a Status Update Meeting" will focus on the following topics:

• What is an effective Governance Board? A simple definition with a simple purpose
• How to measure Board's effectiveness
• As a facilitator, how to work with different business groups and manage personalities during Board meetings
• How to get members actively involved
• Tips to avoid being just a Status Update meeting
• What to talk about at Board Meeting
• What not to talk about at Board Meeting
• 5 Key Elements to a successful and productive Board Meeting

Learn more and register to attend SharePoint Saturday, Balimore.

AWS Public Sector Conference

JHC Technology was thrilled to be a part of the biggest Amazon Web Services Public Sector conference to date.  Held in Washington, DC, there were hundreds of public sector partners and clients in town to talk about all things AWS.  It was a great time to catch up with friends from years past and an even better time in finding out about all the incredible things that AWS is helping companies around the world implement.

There was a crazy demonstration at lunch by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory about how they are leveraging the compute power of AWS to process data coming back from the Mars rover, Curiosity.  We also heard from a company that took a genome project from an estimated 12-year computing workload to a 4.5 hour project using spot instances.  Unreal.

Mostly, the conference was a great way for us to see how others are working with AWS and all the possibilities that are out there.  We’re pretty happy with what we’ve done so far and are proud that it seems we’re leading the way with our solutions on AWS and GovCloud.  JHC Technology already has multiple years of experience in migrating data and processes to the cloud, and specifically the AWS cloud environment. 

Next up for JHC is a trip to Las Vegas (er, Vegas, baby!) for re:Invent, the first global Amazon Web Services conference.  In fact, we’re so happy to be headed out there that we’re throwing a party for all of our AWS friends.  Check out the invitation here and be sure to join us for a great night to open AWS’s re:Invent.

Matt Jordan is the Cloud Services Manager for JHC Technology.  He can be reached at mjordan(at)jhctechnology.com, @matt_jhc, or connect with him on LinkedIn.