SCOPE Alliance Welcomes 2011 Officers, Begins May Workshop Planning

By Timo Jokiaho, SCOPE Alliance

SCOPE Alliance kicked off the New Year at a recent officers meeting during which it elected new officers, advanced plans to host the third in a series of SCOPE member workshops, and discussed a recently posted HPC in the Cloud SCOPE contributed article and upcoming whitepaper.

2011 SCOPE Board Officers

Board Chair: Timo Jokiaho, Huawei Technologies
Vice Chair: Tero Mustala, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)
Co-Marketing Chair: Chris Wardale, NEC
Co-Marketing Chair: Staffan Skogby, Huawei Technologies
Treasurer: Magnus Buhrgard, Ericsson
Membership Officer: Leslie Guth, Alcatel-Lucent
Technical Chair: Brian Moore, Motorola Networks

Congratulations to our new officers!

SCOPE Member Workshop

SCOPE officers agreed to host the next member workshop on May 4-5. It will focus on hardware technology advances in Carrier Grade Base Platforms (CGBPs) and will feature SCOPE member and guest speakers. SCOPE will soon issue a call for presentations. Information about registration and presentations, as well as additional workshop details will be available on the SCOPE website at www.scope-alliance.org.

SCOPE HPC in the Cloud Contributed Article and Upcoming White Paper

SCOPE recently published an article that stemmed from discussions at its 2010 “Cloud Computing in Telecom” workshop. The article, appearing in HPC in the Cloud, is available at: “Security in Cloud Computing Not So Different From Security in Telco” and in the articles section on the SCOPE website (www.scope-alliance.org). SCOPE plans to publish a whitepaper discussing this topic further during the coming year.

For more information about the SCOPE Alliance, or to become a SCOPE member, please visit www.scope-alliance.org.

Timo Jokiaho, Director of Planning for Software Technologies at Huawei Technologies, is the 2011 Chair of the SCOPE Alliance. You can reach him via the Alliance’s press representative, Karen Riley Sawyer of Nereus, at kriley@nereus-worldwide.com.