This document summarizes an event hosted by the Cloud Computing Council on June 03, 2010 at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The event included panels on cloud computing best practices and risk mitigation strategies. It discussed how cloud computing can help enterprises, schools, and governments improve resilience through disaster recovery. The document proposes creating a Midwest Academic and Resilience Cloud Computing Center to incubate cloud technologies through research, pilots, and workforce training. This center would partner schools and commercial enterprises to enhance regional and national preparedness.

1. Cloud Computing Council
Sponsors of the Future
Mitigating Risk While Creating Opportunity Through Change Measurement &
Management
Illinois Institute of Technology
June 03, 2010

2. Housekeeping
• 8:30 a.m. Welcome DR. Robert Carlson Dean
School of Applied Technology Illinois Institute
of Technology
• Richard Arns, The Security Board
– Facilities
– How we got here! Where we are going!
• 8:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Jack Ross (Business
Decisions Economics) Cloud Computing Best
Practices

3. Housekeeping (cont)
• 9:00 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. Richard Arns & Larry
Dribin Co-Moderators Panel (Bank of America,
SGI, AMD, IIT, SAP, ACS-- A Xerox Company)
– Panelist Introductions
• 11:25 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Wrap-up & Next
Steps

4. Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

5. McDonalds HQ
Satellite imagery of I88 facilities
and a critical refined product
pipeline exposure within 2 miles
that could have a direct impact
on operations.
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6. I88 Cluster has National
Economic Significance
• Multiple Fortune 100 HQ’s
• Suppliers/Supply Chains
• Many Schools
– Major Universities
– Community Colleges
– K-12 Schools
• 2 National Laboratories
• Major Critical Infrastructure
– Multiple Single Points of Failure
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7. Why does Enterprise, School,
Government need Resilience?
• 40 % of the companies without disaster
recovery capability were out of business
within 6 weeks of a disaster. (Forbes Magazine)
• If a business experiences any form of disaster
within the next five years there is 40 %
probability that they will go out of business.
(Gartner)
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8. Physical to Virtual
• Enterprise, Education, Government all need
resilient operations
– Future (21st Century) Workforce
• Operational Need (e.g. College/University)
– School Need BCP/DR and Can Learn by Doing
– Test Bed/Technology Sand Box/Learning Environment
• Academic Need//Vendor Need (e.g. Amazon)
– Certificate/Curriculum development/Articulation
– Establish national certification standards
• Create Jobs/Re-skill existing IT workforce
– Create Sustainable Mentorship Program
– New Paradigm (Need to manage Change)
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9. Need for
Sustainable
Job
Creation
Address
Enterprise,
School,
Government,
Vendor
Requirements
THE PERFECT Incubate Technology
to satisfy All Needs
AND
STORM THE FUTURE

10. Question????
Can the Cloud Run your
Day to Day Operations if it
is proven that The Cloud
Can Satisfactorily Recover
Them????
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11. Process to Incubate Technology &
Create Jobs
Quarterly Event Workshop Pilot Generation
•RAW IDEA (e.g. BCP/DR, Thin (Selected School & •Technology Solution Case
Client, Learning Environment) Study & White Papers
Vendor)
•NEED vs. SOLUTION •Certificate & Curriculum
Development
•Flush out Pilot Concept
•Enterprise, School, Vendor, •Articulation Development
•Resource Pool involvement
Government
•Certificate/Curriculum
definition •Jobs (Resource Pool)
•Articulation strategy
•Next Event (6/03/2010)
•Recycle process
• 90 Day Recurring Program (CTO Panel status on Workshops)
• Workshops/Roundtables continually scheduled with School (Host) &
Vendors (SMEs) selected!!
• Resource pool participants identified

12. Midwest Academic and Resilience
Cloud Computing Center (MARC^3 )
Schools Commercial Enterprise (Small thru Large)
University/Community College/K-12
Trusted Third Party R&D/Testing/Piloting
• Cloud Resilience Research
• Pilot Identification through continual R & D a) Education is Common Denominator for active
• Incubation/Commercialization opportunities Business--Vendor participation having
• Job Creation 1) Middle ground to most effectively manage
• Academic R&D, Testing, Pilot, Workshop, Roundtable, change (i.e. Social Challenges, etc…)
Curriculum-Certificate Development - Economic Stimulus thru Job
• Articulation Strategy •
Creation Discretion Where Necessary
• Data Recovery –Cyber Security ETC…
Student Resource Pool
Executive Mentors
Collaborative Cloud R&D
Government Technology Vendor
Mechanism to continuously enhance regional & Market Identification & Analysis, Reporting
national preparedness against All Hazards utilizing the Case Studies (curriculum development)
•
most current technological innovations (i.e. Cloud • Research /Whitepaper /Pilot/Workshop-/Roundtable
Technology). • Metric development
• Technology Value (Benefit/ROI etc..)
• Etc…

13. Model is Scalable to 1000’s of Locations
Each serving numerous (SMB to Fortune 100)
corporations
Colleges--1187 Community Colleges,
1000 Universities across nation
Represent 5000 locations