Navstar’s New Home

January 4, 2010

We are pleased to announce that as of today, January 4, 2010 we have moved to our new Headquarters in Reston, VA. Please update your files as necessary.
1897 Preston White Drive Suite 202 Reston, VA 20191
703-880-1500 – Main Phone
703-880-1507 – Main Fax

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Cloud Computing (aka Internet based Services)

January 3, 2010

…and that Cloud looks like a highly redundant, geographically dispersed computer cluster…
Technology marches forward and the paradigm changes. The latest new paradigm – Cloud Computing! Cloud Computing is going to completely change the way we design our computing infrastructures, again.
Cloud Computing is the concept of using Internet services to support users. In general the term is [...]

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Happy Holidays from Navstar

December 23, 2009

We would like to wish you and yours a happy and safe holiday season. With the snow on the ground still from this past weekend’s blizzard, we may in fact have a White Christmas.
We also look forward to a very Happy New Year and prosperous health for everyone in 2010.

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Sustainable Strategic Planning

December 17, 2009

**co-written with Geoff Stack of STACK Consulting**
As you may have read in a recent post all federal agencies are facing a sustainability push. President Obama has tasked every Federal Agency for a target in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reductions. This target is self-reported and is for the year 2020.
Both of these moves are unique in government [...]

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Green Goes SxSw Interactive

December 1, 2009

Congratulations to our Director of Green IT, Steven Mandzik for getting accepted to speak as a Core Conversation for South By Southwest in 2010. Green is very important to us at Navstar and we support Steve’s passion with A Clean Life.
Navstar is looking forward to continuing “greening” ourselves as we are completely reworking our internal [...]

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Network Management – The Art of Enterprise Monitoring

November 30, 2009

“That which is not monitored is not managed.” – A wise System Administrator
Failure is a part of life. This is especially true in the world of IT. It is not a question of if, but when. The key to successful enterprise management is to know when things fail. This can only be accomplished through monitoring. [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving From Navstar

November 25, 2009
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Gov 2.0 Takes Two Steps Forward and One Step Back

November 19, 2009

I started following the saga of the missing blog via Diplopundit, so I’ll link to her post Best Consular Blog. Dead, So Very Dead calling the case closed. I’m reposting a lot of it below.
The consular blog “The Consuls’ Files,” by Madam le Consul went missing from the blogosphere 30 days ago today. [...]

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What is Enterprise Architecture?

November 18, 2009

I typically try to avoid “buzz” terms like Enterprise Architecture, but sometimes you just need a term. This is one such case. It is either use a term, or paragraphs of explanations. This is intended to be the paragraphs to define the term, Enterprise Architecture.

The term Enterprise Architecture (EA) is not well [...]

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The Amorality of Web 2.0

November 17, 2009

Lewis Shepherd recently tweeted this post by Nick Carr, on the amorality of Web 2.0.    It’s even more applicable today than it was when it was written in 2005…which is the mark of good analysis and prediction, and of something we should pay attention to.
Like Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 is amoral.  Implementing Enterprise 2.0 won’t [...]

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