Decisive IT, Inc.

As of April 4th, 2011 all Decisive IT operations have been moved over to WJ Technologies, LLC, also known as “WiJiT”

I’m still doing the same kinds of IT consulting and providing the same levels of service, just with a new company. I’ve taken on the role of IT Solutions Director and will be building out a technical group with capabilities way beyond what I was able to do on my own with Decisive IT. WJ Technologies is also a great team, comprised of some of the best, most experienced consultants available.

A description of WJ Technologies from the web site:

WJ Technologies, a Deltek Premier Partner, sells Deltek Costpoint^®, Deltek GCS Premier^® and Deltek Time Collection™ software to government contractors and non-profit organizations.  We go “beyond the software” to deliver consulting, programs and services that are designed to address the unique needs of this special market.  Indeed, clients of WJ Technologies enjoy the robust functionality and market recognition of Deltek software, while enjoying the benefits of establishing a relationship with a responsive organization that is focused exclusively on their needs and the demands of their unique market…

This web site, decisiveit.com will be redesigned in the near future and become a place for me to write about enterprise technology, so keep it bookmarked and check back again later this summer.

If you’re looking to engage me on a project, please give me a call at my new office number, 703.885.8160.

I will be at Deltek Insight 2011 in Nashville, TN the week of May 16th wearing a WJ Technologies shirt every day except for Thursday, so I should be hard to miss. Don’t hesitate to say hi!

For my customers, thank you so much for the business you have given me over the last 3 years. It’s been a great pleasure to work with you and I look forward to working with you in the future through WJ Technologies.

Best Regards,

Drew

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The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), which I am a part of, has just launched a program that promises to be a unique and exciting opportunity for students in grades 5-12.

From the SSEP program web site:

The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP), launched June 2010, provides middle and high school classes across the U.S. the ability to propose experiments to fly in low Earth orbit, and to celebrate that accomplishment with their local community and with national and global audiences.

Phase 1 of the program is a unique and historic opportunity to propose an experiment to fly aboard STS-134, the final scheduled flight of the Space Shuttle. Selected student experiments would fly for 10 days aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. Launch is tentatively scheduled for November 2010, but a launch slip to mid-January is expected, enabling this student spaceflight experiments opportunity.

Decisive IT is proud to be part of this program and will be handling the web development and technology infrastructure to support this effort. Congratulations to NCESSE and it’s partners on making this program a reality.

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UPDATE 5/21/2010: The conference was pretty good overall. It was great to reconnect with so many people. Looking forward to the actual release of Costpoint 7, the first fully web-based release. I will be following up with all of you that I ran into over the next week. But now it’s time for Hot Rods and Muscle Cars in Ocean, City, MD!

Deltek’s annual conference is next week, May 17th through the 20th. I wasn’t sure if I was going to go this year, but I’ve made a decision to go.

It’s being held at the Gaylord National, right outside of Washington, D.C. at the National Harbor in Maryland. I’ll be on the lookout for those of you that I know and if you see me, don’t be a stranger!

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After quite a bit of work by my good friend/colleague Dr. Jeff Goldstein (and a decent amount by me on the back end), Dr. Jeff’s Blog on the Universe is up and running!

I have a feeling that it’s going to extremely popular with a lot of teachers and parents alike. Give it a go and let Dr. Jeff know what you think!

Also, don’t forget to check out NCESSE‘s other programs, like Voyage and Journey through the Universe.

-drew

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If you haven’t noticed or are a new visitor, I’ve refreshed the look of the site and have actually started the process of re-writing a large part of the content (finally!). Keep in mind that this is not a finished product, more clarity and information coming soon.

If you run across something that doesn’t quite work right or have other feedback, feel free to let me know.

Thanks,

-drew

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I attended the VMWare Virtualization Forum yesterday in Washington, D.C. and came home even more sure that VMWare is the top virtualization vendor out there. It was a lot of marketing, of course, but I still got a lot of good info out of it. Kind of hard to complain about a free full-day event like that.

The next version of VMWare ESX and associated technologies, dubbed ‘vSphere’ seems pretty impressive, especially when coupled with Intel’s new 5500 series Xeon processors. They are calling it a ‘Cloud Operating System’, which is really more marketing speak than anything. The fundamentals of the ESX products have not really changed greatly, just improved; if you ask me, you could have called the previous versions a Cloud OS too and gotten away with it.

I’m really hoping to make it out to VMWorld 2009 this year and am really looking forward to my first vSphere deployment.

- Drew

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I can’t believe that Deltek Insight 2009 is in two weeks, a third of the year has flown by already… I’ll be going this year, so keep your eye out and don’t forget to say hello!

If you give me one of your cards at the conference you’ll get 15% off your next consulting engagement with Decisive IT in 2009.

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I wrote up an article on my personal blog that I’d like to share with everyone.

Decisive IT provides free email/web hosting , web site maintenance and general IT advice/support to the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) and they’ve reached some major milestones that I would like to share with everyone.

You can read the write up at drewroman.com.

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My son was originally scheduled to be born around October 25th but has made the executive decision to be born today!

My availability schedule was based on the original due date and is now completely out the window for the most part. I will be reviewing my schedule tomorrow and over the weekend and should have it worked out by the 22nd.

If you are looking to work with me regarding technical consulting, please feel free to contact me regarding availability.

Thank you!

Drew

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For those of you wondering what virtualization really is and what it has to offer, Ars Technica has started putting together a great Guide to Virtualization (part 1).

For those of you that need a “little” more technical detail, they have part 2 up now.

It does a good job of covering the history, basic implementations and types of virtualization.

-Drew

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