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[Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Andrew Weiss <weissa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I wanted to introduce myself to this group. My name is Andrew Weiss and
> I am a senior undergraduate student in the Computer & Information
> Technology Department at Purdue University.  Throughout the course of
> this semester, I will be conducting research in cloud computing with
> focus areas that include: security, scalability, and business process
> enhancement. I recently contacted Stefano about using OpenStack as the
> primary tool for our cloud computing research and he mentioned this
> academic group.
>
> My goal with this project is to explore the advantages and disadvantages
> of deploying an open source private cloud in an enterprise environment.
> The degree I am pursuing is geared towards IT engineering in regards to
> the maintenance, support, and implementation of enterprise technologies.
> If anyone has any areas in particular that relate to this project that
> they would like me to also look into, I would certainly be interested.

I think you should also try to take into account privacy, cloud
economics, and be more explicit about your comparison to public cloud.
Are you thinking about private vs. public? Or is it more of a old
school IT vs. cloud-style, more devops-minded IT?

I would like to see you go into more depth with your proposal to try
to draw out a possible mentor in the OpenStack community. The more
detail that you go into, the more advice we can give you.

Thanks,
Todd

> Please contact me with more information and whether or not you are
> interested in following along with our project's progress.
>

Maybe you could have a wiki page or have report(s) on the blog.

Thanks,
Todd

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Todd Deshane
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