Aim
The Irish Internet Association Cloud Computing Working Group seeks to educate decision makers on the advantages of Cloud Computing while also cognisant of the disadvantages. It aims to support businesses to analyse the issues involved in transitioning their IT infrastructure from on premise to cloud applications and advise businesses on areas of concern such as availability, security and data protection. The group aims to clarify the objective opportunities beyond the hype.
How Will This Be Achieved
By bringing together Cloud Computing vendors and business leaders in a collaborative forum, developing white-papers that encourage best practice and give guidance on achieving sustainable and realistic goals. The group will highlight best practice case-studies in the Irish marketplace and beyond.
The group will also organise workshop events open to all IIA members and non-members to facilitate sharing and discussing insights and developments in the Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) fields.
Resources
View the white papers and resources produced by the group here.
Membership
Current participants:
- Chair: Gerry Power, Consultant, Sysco
- Neil Delaney, Enterprise Applications Manager, Google
- Wayne Leone, Cloud Lab Manager, IBM
- Cormac Keogh, Architect Advisor, Microsoft
- Joe McNally, Sales Engineer Manager, Salesforce
- Brian Grant, Architect Advisor, Oracle
- Declan Kearney, MD, Supplierforce
- Michael Higgins, CTO, Advanced Innovations, Inc.
- Paul Norton, IT Manager, Jones Engineering
- Suzie Walsh, IT Manager, McCormick MacNaughton
- Brona Kernan, CIO, Irish Times
- Trevor Dagg, elan
- Mark Greville, Merrill Lynch
- Don Ryan, Premier Recruitment
- Ruari Roddy, CTO, Thomas Crosbie Holdings
- Sean Hickey, IT Manager, Kepak
- Paul Tully, IT Infrastructure Manager, O2
- Lavinia Morris, IT Infrastructure Manager, Friends First Group
It is intended that membership of the working group be split evenly between expert practitioners and business leaders (e.g. CTOs) from a variety of business sectors, including the finance, public sector, SME, tourism, media, technology and not-for-profit sectors. This will allow input from all stakeholders on issues pertaining to this area.
The Group will meet 2 to 3 times a year and will primarily work using Basecamp - an online collaboration tool. The number of members will be kept to 10 and if required the working group will be split into subgroups to work on specific tasks.
The group will be chaired by Gerry Power, Consultant, Sysco.
If you would like to get involved please contact Roseanne Smith at members@iia.ie or 01 5424154. All enquiries welcome.