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Dave Gimpl:  Computing as a Service
Infrastructure for vaporware.  They are working on the infrastructure that enables cloud-computing.
Challenges in the data center:  rising costs of the operations, the explosion of data, the difficulty of deploying new application and services, the difficulty in managing complex virtual machine systems.  When you map the business processes, they map [...]

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R.L. Bob doing the introduction: 
Advanced CAMP could mean to some people the advanced topics beyond just the basics.  Bob likes to think of it as the Advance Camp out in the wilderness where you are more likely to get caught in a blizzard, get shot and generally face the wilderness.
The theme that came out [...]

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Indiana University
Completed a 10 year Strategic Plan which worked because they connected money to it.  You couldn’t get funding unless you showed how your project connected to one of the 71 strategic initiatives.  Completed a 10 year tactical Telecom Plan.  Instead of replacing 1/4 of the switches every year for four years, they [...]

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Data Management  Discussion:
Key Issues:

Data Architecture, Analysis and Design
Data Security Management  – data access and security
Reference and Master Data Management  – making data available rather than copying data
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Management – normalizing the data across the data warehouse
Document, Record and Content Management -
Meta Data Management -

The difference between Structured Data (data in authoritative [...]

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Duke University
http://oit.duke.edu/tag/
Tech Architecture group at Duke is charged:

to track emerging technology and raise issues for the CIO’s consideration
review major decisions
integrate into the project management lifecyle
pay attention and champion certain solutions

Developed small set of principles – few enough that they could remember them around four areas:

Data
Infrastructure
Services
Support

Each of these areas are highlighted in each principle’s page (http://oit.duke.edu/tag/principles/p-robust-systems.html)
The [...]