FW: Public Cloud Requirement

["John Borras" <johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk>]

Please see the note from John Wailing below.  Does anyone have any views or
experience of the requirement that he has set out?  Is it something we could
include within the scope of the new TC?  I'm not suggesting that the TC
would come up with the technical answer to this problem but more that it's
yet another requirement to add to the list that we are looking to produce.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Wailing John (OCIO) [mailto:John.Wailing3@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk] 
Sent: 23 August 2012 13:35
To: Dee Schur
Cc: 'Jane Harnad'; 'Pim van der Eijk'; Ian Osborne; McDonagh Denise; John
Borras; Hartley Dominic
Subject: RE: Invitation to speak at International Cloud Symposium

Thanks for the thought. I also find that it will be impossible to attend.
However, having spoken to John B, I increasingly see a need for someone
(you) to get a grip on 'Cloud' standards/models.

We seek the convenience, agility and economy of commoditising the
development and hosting of our big (line of business, transactional,
inherently reliable) systems. The trick seems to be to create the
application to run in some abstracted hosting environment (a container of
some description?) so that it can be hosted anywhere (probably in at least
two places running active-active with load sharing). At the moment testing
typically requires the developer to have at least one environment and the
hosting service to have a least 2, pre-prod and prod. Some functional
testing will always be needed but much of our testing is centred on how the
application will perform in the production environment. Need to get away
from this in times to come! I have glossed over rather a lot but you will
get the drift!


Regards
John
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Osborne [mailto:Ian.Osborne@Intellectuk.org]
Sent: 17 August 2012 18:40
To: Dee Schur; McDonagh Denise; Wailing John (OCIO)
Cc: 'Jane Harnad'; 'Pim van der Eijk'
Subject: RE: Invitation to speak at International Cloud Symposium

Dee, Apologies, I am unable to participate in this event owing to a prior
commitment. Ian

Ian Osborne
ian.osborne@intellectuk.org
M:+44 7793 258219
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From: Dee Schur [dee.schur@oasis-open.org]
Sent: 17 August 2012 18:08
To: 'McDonagh Denise'; Home Office, John Wailing; Ian Osborne
Cc: 'Jane Harnad'; 'Pim van der Eijk'; 'Dee Schur'
Subject: RE: Invitation to speak at International Cloud Symposium

Hi Denise, John and Ian,
Do you have an update on your availability to speak at the International
Cloud Symposium? Please scroll down and have a peek at all the policy makers
that have already registered to attend,
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4009281870?ref=ebtnebregn

Please let me know if I can answer any questions -- I look forward to your
reply.
Regards,
dee

Dee Schur
Senior Manager - Standards Advocate
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
http://www.oasis-open.org
+1.781.425.5073 x211

-----Original Message-----
From: Dee Schur [mailto:dee.schur@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 5:23 PM
To: 'McDonagh Denise'; 'john.wailing3@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk'
Cc: 'Jane Harnad'; 'Pim van der Eijk'; 'Ian.Osborne@intellectuk.org'
Subject: Invitation to speak at International Cloud Symposium

Hi Denise and John,
We are featuring a session at the International Cloud Symposium (ICS),
https://www.oasis-open.org/events/cloud/2012, focused on Digital Government
to include discussions on G-Cloud and Cloud First activities.
We would be grateful if either of you would consider presenting on the
G-Cloud topic during the first session, 10 October 2012, but we do have
flexibility if 11 October would suit you better. If this does not work for
either of you, please feel free to recommend a colleague. To get an idea of
the type of program we coordinate, please have a peek at last year's ICS
website held in the London area,
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/cloud/2011
If you have any questions or would like more information, feel free to
contact me or Jane Harnad. I am looking forward to your reply.
Best regards,
dee


Dee Schur
Senior Manager - Standards Advocate
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
http://www.oasis-open.org
+1.781.425.5073 x211



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