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Clearing the Clouds
What are Some Possible Roles for Cloud Computing in K12 IT?
Curtis Lee, Director of Information Technology
Poudre School District, Fort Collins, CO
Panelists:
• Dan Brinkmann, Solutions Architect, Lewan & Associates
• Tim DiScipio, Founder, ePals
• Randy Jones, Senior Software Architect, IBM
• Sean MacKirdy, Cisco Systems
CASE/CALET Winter Pre‐Conference
February 2nd 2011
Westin Hotel, Westminster CO
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous,
convenient, on‐demand network access to a shared
pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,
networks, servers, storage, applications, and
services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or service
provider interaction.
(This definition is from the latest draft of the NIST Working
Definition of Cloud Computing published by the U.S.
Government's National Institute of Standards and Technology.1)
What are the Cloud’s origins?
• Moore’s Law
• Virtualization
• Web Services & SOA
• Backhaul Broadband
• Exponential Mobile Growth
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3 Cloud Service Models
Software as a Service Platform as a Service Infrastructure as a Service
SaaS PaaS IaaS
Use of an application over Deploy customer‐created Rent processing, storage
a network applications to a cloud and network capacity
Cloud Applications Cloud Platforms
4 Cloud Deployment Models
• Private cloud
– enterprise owned or provided by outsourcer
• Community cloud
– shared infrastructure for specific community
• Public cloud
– sold to the public, mega‐scale infrastructure
• Hybrid cloud “G‐Cloud”
“Green”
– composition of two or more clouds “High Security” Cloud
Cloud
“Demo” Cloud
“NHS” Cloud
“Retail” Cloud
Audience Question 1
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Randy Jones, IBM
Randy Jones is an experienced pre‐sales IT professional and
engineer with 25+ years in the IT field, leveraging strong ECM
and InfoSphere product knowledge with over 15 years
application architecture background. Randy's responsibilities
continue to focus on identifying key business opportunities,
building strategic relationships with the Great West Public and
Distribution sector clients, driving revenue, discovering
opportunities, and determining how IBM’s products fit into a
clients existing architecture. Randy has been working in
designing new education solutions for modernizing Colorado’s
school systems and providing though leadership to IBM’s
education team.
Audience Question 2
Tim DiScipio, ePals
Tim DiScipio is the founder of ePals (www.epals.com). Created
in 1996, ePals is the education industry pioneer and leader in
school‐safe email, blogs and collaborative workspace
technology designed specifically for K‐12 teachers, students and
administrators. The ePals Global Community is recognized as
one of the first social networks on the web. Described as the
largest and fastest‐growing "social learning network", it reaches
more than 25 million teachers and students in 200 countries for
national or international project sharing, literacy skill building
or cross‐cultural collaboration.
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Audience Question 3
Daniel Brinkman, Lewan Associates
Dan Brinkmann is a Solutions Architect at Lewan &
Associates. Since joining Lewan & Associates in 2008, Dan has
been helping Enterprise customers design large and small data
centers with challenging and complex requirements. Dan has
extensive design experience with Systems and Storage and
specific expertise in Server and Desktop Virtualization
technologies from Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware. Prior to
joining Lewan & Associates, Dan was an IT Manager responsible
for Server & Database Infrastructure and Desktop Architecture
at a Denver‐based Fortune 500 company.
email – dan.brinkmann@lewan.com
blog ‐ http://blog.lewan.com
twitter ‐ http://www.twitter.com/dbrinkmann
Audience Question 4
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Sean Mackirdy, Cisco Systems
In Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, Cisco’s Public Sector
Sales team is led by Sean MacKirdy, an eleven year veteran of
Cisco. Mr. MacKirdy has taken the lead for Cisco’s sales
organization on more than $500M in successful customer
deployments in that time, including: three of the first six pilot
sites of the Navy/Marine Corp Internet (N/MCI) global
LAN/WAN/Data Center outsourcing project (2001); Managed
the VA Wireless Fidelity Program, a deployment of over 100,000
Access Points managed from four data centers (2008.) Mr.
MacKirdy resides in Colorado Springs, CO, has two school‐age
children enrolled in D‐38, and completed his bachelorette
studies at Pepperdine University.
More Questions than Answers, Perhaps
Will the last one leaving the datacenter
please turn the lights out…
Thanks to our panelists and audience !
Stay Warm…cl
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