QCloud
QCloud provides collaborative cloud data, compute and hosted services to the Queensland and Australian research communities. As part of the national RDSI and NeCTAR Research Cloud projects, QCloud interacts with other research cloud centres in Australia to unite research communities and deliver data and services broadly across Australia. For Queensland it provides a place to locate and deliver services of national and regional interest. By accumulating and making available data that has been inaccessible previously, QCloud is expected to provide unprecedented opportunities for integrating and aggregating data, and for stimulating new research based on these emerging resources. This could result in a wide range of new research applications in industry and government. The presentation will provide an overview of the facilities presented by QCloud and how they are being implemented, and will explore some of the innovative directions that QCloud will enable.
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Rob Cook's Biography Rob Cook is the Chief Executive Officer of the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation Ltd (QCIF), a company owned by six universities in Queensland. QCIF enables high performance infrastructure and services for research in Queensland and nationally.
Rob has over 25 years’ experience in the software industry, working in Australia, USA, Singapore and Malaysia. Immediately prior to QCIF he ran a consulting company, Pangalax Pty Ltd in Brisbane. Rob held the positions of President and CEO of Astracon - a Denver, CO based telecommunications software company that he helped to found and before that Rob led CiTR Pty Ltd, a successful software company in Brisbane specialising in telecommunications. He has been involved in a leadership role in a number of CRCs including DSTC, Smart Services and CIEAM, and built the business cases for several eResearch ventures including Intersect in NSW and VLSCI and MASSIVE in Victoria. |
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Warren Fraser's Biography
Warren Fraser is Chief Operating Officer and Infrastructure Coordinator at the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) where commenced duties in March 2012. Prior to this appointment, Warren was the Associate Director (Infrastructure Services) of the Information Technology Services department at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
Warren has held positions in ICT in the higher education sector covering a number of technology and management domains including corporate system programming, personal computing support, library ICT, ICT governance, project portfolio office management and most recently infrastructure management.
Warren holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Certificate in Legal Studies from QUT and is a Senior Member of the Australian Computer Society. |
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Graham Chen's Biography
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