Leveraging Academia to Solve Cloud Challenges

Justin F. BrunelleThe MITRE Corporation

jbrunelle@mitre.org

Thank you!

Justin F. Brunellejbrunelle@mitre.org

Cloud Working Group: Tactical Cloud

• Government collaboration – Data replication– Ad hoc/distributed cloud analytics– Identity Access Management– Federated Query

Interoperability & Portability

• Cloud enables interoperability

• Mobile is key• Universal service

catalog• Need improved

models

End-to-end Service Delivery

• Need a la carte pricing

• Not all services suitable for cloud

• Need improved models

• Assured elasticity with fixed max cost

Federal Standards and SLAs

• SLAs for multiple providers• Improved governance• Agile methods for cloud provisioning• Federal collaboration needed

Cyber Security

• Need Security as a Service• A la Carte security procurement• Security as contractual obligation• Automatic detection

Academic Collaboration

• Interop: mobile as enabler• End-to-end: need real-time

to disconnected users• SLAs: improved modeling• Security: need automatic

detection• Need:– Industry days– Attention to government trends– Industry to Academia Signal for need

Academics to shape cloud landscape

Call for mentors!

• Leverage Academia• Use a talent agent– AMARC– MITRE

jbrunelle@mitre.org

Dan Mintz

• Executive Director of AMARC• Former CIO• Fed 100 Award Winner• Adjunct Professor, IT Education:– Syracuse University– University of Maryland University College