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ITAC attends the December meeting of the Architecture Framework Advisory Committee
Posted December 19, 2012
Building on the discussion regarding cloud computing at the launch of the IT Infrastructure Roundtable on November 22, 2012, this meeting was the first of three interactive meetings regarding Shared Services Canada (SSC) and Cloud Computing. At the meeting the SSC identified what it needs responses on, mapped out where it wants to go in terms of cloud computing and asked industry for help. The next meeting is scheduled for January 18, 2013.
The experts in the Cloud Computing space that represented ITAC at the meeting were:
- Strahan McCarten, Director of Product Management, Hosting & Cloud Computing Services, Bell Canada
- Mark Godfrey, Business Solutions Architect, Network Appliance Inc.
- Mike Cardy, Global CTO, OnX Enterprise Solutions
- Chris Makkreel, Director, Sales Engineering Canada
- James Lambe, Director of Sales for Google Enterprise, Google Canada
- John Schouten, Enterprise Technologist, Dell Canada Inc.
Here are the reading materials that were provided for the meeting:
- SSC Cloud Computing Vision (See page 4 for the January 18, 2013 agenda)
- NIST Definition of Cloud Computing
- NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture
- NIST Working Together to Advance Cloud Computing
- Security Domains & Zones Architecture
- Security Domains & Zones Implementation Guidelines
- IaaS Implementation Guidelines
For further information please contact Linda Oliver (loliver@itac.ca)
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