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 While distributed decision making has been the pillar for the democratic society at large, it also exposed the significant weakness in a large enterprise when security is paramount. Cloud has changed some of the traditional thinking of system design, but do require the practitioner to have a good comprehension how it can be seamlessly inter-operating with the existing on premise infrastructure, since cloud will be an extension until we are at age to really enter into the nebulous matrix that takes over reality. In many large enterprises, there are inconsistencies in regards of policies and responsibilities, and hence the individual decision maker will interpret the policies, responsibilities based on his/her own best interest but it doesn't necessarily ensure an overall sound approach to ensure security and operations. Our practice has been focusing on the adaptability of organizational environment, promote practical solutions, and holding customer's hands to find the least re...

 After several years grass roots cloud adoption effort, agencies are moving towards enterprise cloud platforms with consistent implementation and adoptions. As an active practitioner and promoter of enterprise cloud initiatives, I am happy to see the trend. Here is a link to DoD Cloud One:  https://software.af.mil/team/cloud-one/ , and hopefully that my support at NOAA will publish its effort soon.

 We started T-Bridge site on WebhostingPad a few years back and really suffered from the service. While we hadn't been actively publishing content, email service was a constant battle. In multiple occasions, our emails to customers and partners had been blocked due to the suspicious origin due to the IP pool was being contaminated. Finally, we decided to pull the plug. With the new site, we will set it as a blog to frequently update with new content, new thoughts, new observations from our customer engagement, of course, no proprietary information.