MELBOURNE, Fla. and
WASHINGTON, April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyatt Starnes, vice president of Advanced
Concepts for Harris Corporation's (NYSE: HRS) Cyber Integrated
Solutions business unit, has been named to a national commission of
thought leaders that will provide recommendations on how government
should deploy cloud – or virtual computing – technologies, and
identify public policies to help drive U.S. innovation in the
cloud.
The TechAmerica Foundation's Commission on the Leadership
Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (CLOUD2) brings
together leaders in industry and academia. The commission's
three-month mandate is to provide the Obama Administration with
recommendations for both government and commercial advancement of
the cloud. Recommendations for government deployment will be
presented to Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. Commercial-facing
recommendations will be shared with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Commerce Under Secretary
Pat Gallagher.
"We are thrilled to welcome Wyatt
Starnes as a Commissioner on the TechAmerica Foundation
CLOUD2 Commission and are confident he will make a significant
contribution," said David Sanders,
Dallas Advisory Partners Founder and TechAmerica Foundation
Chairman. "Wyatt is a leading technology innovator and
entrepreneur, creating new levels of trust and control in the cloud
and promoting enterprise cloud adoption."
Wyatt Starnes has more than 37
years of experience in information technology with eight different
startups. He founded and was CEO of SignaCert, Inc., which
was acquired by Harris Corporation in 2010. Prior to
SignaCert, Mr. Starnes founded Tripwire, Inc., and served as its
president and CEO for seven years. Mr. Starnes is a former
member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), the Visiting Committee on Advance Technologies (VCAT), and
the Oregon Executive Council of the American Electronics
Association (AeA). He has been awarded four patents on IT
trust enablement methods.
"Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a matter of national
competitiveness and security, and the TechAmerica Foundation CLOUD2
Commission can play a pivotal role in advancing the
state-of-the-art of this important new IT service delivery model,"
said Starnes. "I am honored to serve as a commissioner on
CLOUD2 and look forward to contributing to the ideas and
recommendations the commission will produce."
As an established cyber integrator, Harris works closely with
commercial and government organizations to move their operations to
the cloud in the most efficient and effective manner. Its
Trusted Enterprise Cloud service and Cyber Integration Center are
engineered from the ground up to deliver the highest levels of
performance, availability and security. Recently Harris
announced a strategic alliance with EMC Corporation and the Virtual
Computing Environment Company (VCE) to jointly develop and market
new trusted multi-tenant cloud solutions to further accelerate the
adoption of cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
Additional information about Harris Cyber Integrated
Solutions is available at www.harris.com/trustinthecloud.
"Cloud Computing is all about gaining agility and efficiency,
two things that IT organizations crave so they can focus more on
innovation than keeping the lights on," said Pat Gelsinger, EMC President & COO,
Information Infrastructure Products. "Wyatt brings an
informed, experienced, and passionate voice to CLOUD2 to help drive
the appropriate recommendations that guide IT organization along
their journey toward achieving these clear and strategic
benefits."
About Harris Corporation
Harris is an international communications and information
technology company serving government and commercial markets in
more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has
approximately $6 billion of annual
revenue and more than 16,000 employees — including nearly 7,000
engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing
best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and
services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is
available at www.harris.com.
SOURCE Harris Corporation