NetBase’s Will Dantzler shared his thoughts on Cloud Computing with GovCon Executive:
“We have a lot of consulting expertise and experience in helping clients move to a virtual environment. In the cloud computing domain, we basically do consulting to look at the infrastructure, look at what the performance parameters are and we take the measurements in the various areas so that we can get with the customer and help them to realize the performance improvements and the savings that they can get by moving to a virtual environment. As a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, we have a lot of expertise in the Hyper V product, which is one of Microsoft’s products for moving into a virtual environment. We basically are working with clients now. There is an initiative by OMB to consolidate datacenters across the government, and we’re involved with that initiative in terms of providing advice and working with our clients on how they can best optimize their environments and report on the information back to OMB: their processing centers, their time sharing services and hosting services, and if they currently utilize cloud services. A collection of all of that information is what we are looking at. We are looking at what the organization has dedicated in terms of their power needs, their space, their cooling systems and their backup power mechanisms, etc. That’s a lot of what the government is doing right now in cloud computing, because you can really start maximizing and really have consolidation of the IT centers if you start looking at what the cloud computing environment offers.”
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