Campus Cyberinfrastructure and Data Centers
Many campuses have data centers that are inadequate for the rapidly increasing demands placed on them.
Dallas Thornton
Biography
Dallas Thornton is the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Infrastructure Services and Operations and Research Assistant Professor at Clemson University. In his role as Deputy CIO, Dallas develops and executes enterprise strategy for University infrastructure, including high performance computing, networking, data center infrastructure, and cloud architectures and services. He collaborates with the organization’s software, security, and user support groups to ensure seamless technology vision and and IT integration. Prior to Clemson, Dallas led the Health Cyberinfrastructure division at the UC San Diego's San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). In 2011, Dallas led the effort to architect and deploy SDSC Cloud, the largest and highest-performance known academic cloud storage repository. His team subsequently deployed and leveraged Sherlock Cloud, offering FedRAMP-, FISMA-, and HIPAA- compliant cloud resources to researchers and federal sponsors. Dallas was the systems architect for the CMS Data Engine, combating fraud, waste, and abuse through health data mining. Dallas previously oversaw SDSC's IT Infrastructure including building a new data center and strengthening the systems, storage, security, and networks in support of research and system-wide data center consolidation efforts. Dallas received his masters in management of technology and his MBA from Vanderbilt University. He is currently working towards a PhD focusing on information management in healthcare fraud detection at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.EDUCAUSE Publications
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Considerations for Campus Cyberinfrastructure Data Management Policy and Procedure Development
Equally important as the physical cyberinfrastructure components designed to facilitate the transmission and storage of data are the policies and procedures for how that data is managed.
EDUCAUSE Presentations
Memberships
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EDUCAUSE Involvement
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Campus Cyberinfrastructure Information Management Focus Grou
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Campus Cyberinfrastructure - Working Group