CLOUDS TECHNOLOGY EXPERT- Dennis Courtney TEACHES SATURDAY, SEPT 10th 10am – 12(noon) King Street Station Blg1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 600Alexandria, VA 22314 (Directly across from the King St. Subway Station)ALSO Live Streamed: <http://onsync.digitalsamba.com/go/DigitalDynamo/CLOUD>Speaker: Dennis Courtney, President, CPCUG,  & IT Architect, Inter-American Development Bank, will speak in “Plain-English” about CLOUD Technology: Using It To Save Money and Increase Productivity!Confused about the cloud?  Want to know what all the fuss is about? What about Security risks?  What it offers for small businesses and individuals?  Why is the US Government committing over  $20 billion to cloud computer <http://ctovision.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Federal-Cloud-Computing-Strategy1.pdf> ?Computer guru , Dennis Courtney will explain what you need to know to comprehend and to use the cloud. He will also compare some of the major cloud offerings so you can understand just what each vendor is providing and can learn how to use the cloud to save money and increase productivity.Bring your colleagues, friends, and questions about the cloud.Speaker: Dennis Courtney is the president of the Capital PC User Group. Over the years he has held many other positions within the organization including that of chair of the Delphi (now the Programmers) SIG.In his day job Dennis is an IT architect at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). During his 18+ years at IDB, he has also run the the data center, been a programmer for DOS- and Windows-based systems using client-server and Web-based technologies, and run a help desk supporting hundreds of end users.“Excerpt from Washington Technology  (Feb 2011)article:Cloud computing headed for $20B market <http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/02/18/kundra-plan-25-percent-of-it-spending-on-cloud.aspx>The market for cloud services is about to explode in the government space if Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has his way. His recently released Federal Cloud Computing Strategy <http://ctovision.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Federal-Cloud-Computing-Strategy1.pdf> calls for about a quarter of federal IT spending, or $20 billion, to be committed to cloud systems.Additionally, under the Cloud First program, agencies will be required to move three services to the cloud within 18 months, adopt a cloud model wherever feasible and evaluate cloud options before making investments. An estimated $20 billion of the federal government’s $80 billion in IT spending could be used for cloud computing, Kundra said in the report. The agencies expected to spend the most on cloud technology are the Homeland Security and Treasury departments, at approximately $2.4 billion apiece, followed by the Defense, Veterans Affairs and Transportation departments. The top contractors at those agencies include companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Computer Sciences Corp., IBM, and Lockheed Martin.”

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