How higher ed IT is staying ahead of the cloud computing curve

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Bob Brown.

Signs that cloud computing is for real are piling up around Carnegie Mellon University’s Tom Dugas, but nothing else brings this home like the fact that the renowned Pittsburgh research school has posted a job opening for its first-ever cloud architect. “Most higher education IT leaders are starting to assign an individual person to be cloud architect or point person for cloud technology,” says CMU’s associate director for client operations.

Dugas (@TomDugas) anticipates that the topic of IT organization transformation will be among many cloud-related issues up for discussion at next week’s annual EDUCAUSE conference in Indianapolis, where he will be wearing multiple hats, including that of co-lead for the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) Cloud Working Group…

That working group of the big nonprofit for higher education IT leaders has begun crafting a series of papers that will be released more widely in coming months on topics such as “Developing Cloud-Aware Governance” and “Building a Migration Plan.” Dugas, who also serves as co-lead for Internet2’s Cloud Services Working Group, describes CMU itself as “an opportunistic cloud organization” in that it uses cloud computing on a case-by-case basis. Among those use cases: Human resources. CMU uses Workday’s cloud offerings…

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