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TechAmerica Foundation – State & Local Government Cloud Commission (SLG-CC)
The Commission is being led by Tarkan Maner, President and CEO of Wyse Technology. Maner is joined by vice-chairs David L. Cohn, Ph.D. Program Director, Smarter Cloud, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Cisco’s Public Sector CTO, Daniel Kent.
Commission Leadership
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Leadership Quotes on SLG – CC
• Commission Chairman Tarkan Maner, President and CEO, Wyse Technology: “The pressures of a struggling economy, reduced budgets, and the need for greater efficiency have led state, local and federal governments globally to promote cloud computing as a solution whenever possible,” said Tarkan Maner,. “For government agencies at all levels, cloud computing is a concept whose time has come. As Wyse, we look forward to collaborating with Tech America and other industry-leading organizations to help states and local governments take advantage of cloud computing solutions to drive optimized services for all citizens.”
• Vice Chairman David L. Cohn, Ph.D., Program Director, Smarter Cloud, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center: “Cloud computing reduces IT complexity, improves flexibility and reduces costs while promoting collaboration within and across governments. IBM, a leader in this technology, is excited to help drive the transition to more efficient and effective constituent services.”
• Vice Chairman Daniel Kent, CTO Public Sector, Cisco Systems, Inc: “Cloud computing holds incredible promise for our state and local governments. Cloud in its’ various forms, SaaS, IaaS, public and private will provide the vehicle to cut IT costs, reduces complexity, and improves agency agility. As agencies transform their IT to this new paradigm, a portfolio of clouds will be leveraged and utilized to meet applications needs and agency policy. This is an exciting time in IT and Cisco is excited to help our government customers along this journey.”
Commission Members for SLG – CC
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James Acquaviva JP Balakrishnan William (Bill) Clark John Considine Tom Davies Robert Geiger Rick Herrmann Scott McIntyre PG Menon Mike Moore Jack O’Connor Kevin Paschuck Steven Peacock Steven Perkins W. Wyatt Starnes Jim Sweeney Aldona Valicenti Andrew Walker |
Dave Asprey Ashok Balasubramanian Paul Clemmons Winston Damarillo Kevin Hanes Richard W. Johnson Stuart McKee Ned Miller Kim Niederman Bob Otterberg Gareth Patterson Bethann Pepoli Sean Rhody John Stuhrenberg Bill Taylor Jacqueline Vanacek Sean Jennings
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Government Advisors for SLG – CC
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Kevin Acker Tom Charkut Adrian Farley Kyle Hilmer Gary Lambert Dan Lohrmann |
Sean McSpaden Hugh Miller Jim Peterson Dugan Petty Dr. Alan R. Shark Gina C. Tomlinson Greg Wass |
For more information about the SLG Cloud Commission or other related activities, please contact Carol Henton, Vice President, SLG at carol.henton@techamericafoundation.org or 650.357.7728 or Michael Kerr, Sr. Director, SLG at michael.kerr@techamericafoundation.org or 703.284.5324.
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This entry was posted on Monday, August 29th, 2011 by Jason Langsner.