We held our second ITS-ITANA meeting last week. In our first meeting, we went around the room and each person described an architectural decision or two which (s)he made within the last 6 months or will make in the next 6 months. Between meetings, Scott Smith and I categorized these issues and looked for ones where at least three units of ITS were facing similar decisions. We then created seven (7) focus groups to discuss each area of overlap. They are (with chair in parentheses):
- Data Centers/Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (Mark Saussure)
- Identity and Access Management (Renée Shuey)
- Storage (Phil Pishioneri)
- Service Oriented Architecture (Carl Seybold)
- Collaborative Technologies (Christian Vinten-Johansen)
- Virtualization (Matt Scott)
- Networking Futures (Jeff Reel)
If you are an ITS employee and are interested in any of these groups, please feel free to contact Scott Smith, the focus group chair, or me.
I've created a Wikispace so that all members of ITS can remain aware of what we're doing.
I'll post more soon...
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