Clouds: In our way or enabling change
Cloud Services has been promoted as the major driver of productivity for Government and smaller industry. The relatively slow take-up of Cloud Services however shows that the business case is still not sufficiently compelling. The challenge is to develop a practical understanding of the trade-offs between existing approaches and new cloud services alternatives as well as to provide guidelines for uptake of new services.
Dr Ian Oppermann | |
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 | Dr Ian Oppermann was appointed on 1 July 2012 to the role of Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, Director of the newest Flagship for Digital Productivity and Services. Prior to this appointment, Dr Oppermann was the Director of CSIRO’s ICT Centre. CSIRO’s Digital Productivity and Services Flagship addresses major scientific challenges in Wireless Communications, Government and Commercial Services, Robotics, Information Theory, environmental sensing and Health Services. Flagships are CSIRO’s response to National Challenges and the focus of the new Flagship is focussed upon frontier service creation in the Digital Economy. Prior to CSIRO, Ian headed Sales Partnering for Nokia Siemens Networks’ software business, and was Director of Radio Access Performance Business at Nokia. Prior to joining Nokia, Ian was director of the Centre for Wireless Communications, a research centre in Finland. Ian has contributed to 6 books as editor or chapter author, authored or co-authored approximately 30 journal and 90 conference papers. Ian has a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from Sydney University and an MBA from the University of London. Ian is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. |
