John has been employed in the technology industry for over 15 years.He currently holds the title of Enterprise Architect at Oracle Corp. Most recently he served as Principal Field Technologist as well as Principal Architect for the Open Dynamic Infrastructure initiative at Sun Microsystems.Previous roles at Sun have included Sr Technical Manager, and Delivery Architect for Sun Professional Services.
John has a broad, hands-on background in systems, network, storage, and database management, and a career-long focus on operational automation. He has a proven track record in complex customer engagements as the owner of a small consulting business, and as a consultant with Sun Microsystems. He is visionary and goal-oriented with experience in architecting, designing and implementing cutting edge technology solutions that address real customer needs and increase business opportunities and productivity.
For the last several years, John has been focused on strategies to improve operational maturity through cross-functional technology automation. This includes research in the areas of service structure, dependency, policy, workflow, and deployment description. John currently co-leads Sun's Cloud Community of Experts, and engages with customers to help them achieve their cloud building goals.
Paper: Prioritized Concerns for Building Cloud Solutions  |
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October 01 2009
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Jason Carolan & John Stanford |
The following paper details some of the areas necessary for successful building and adoption of cloud infrastructure today. In many cases, they are imperatives that seem yet to be solved. Central and obvious to cloud environments are the APIs that control the environments, the tools built to support them, and the virtualization, billing, and utility infrastructure. There are many clouds. Clouds should and can talk to other clouds either via orchestration above the cloud or (eventually) by native capability within the cloud. But there are several aspects that are not so obvious. Security, resource management, protocols, and integration between traditional IT environments and a new “cloud-like” model must integrate together.
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