Ibrahim Gedeon, MEng/90

When Carleton opened the Huawei-TELUS Innovation Centre for Enterprise Cloud Services on January 12, 2012, it was something of a homecoming for Ibrahim Gedeon. Having studied electrical engineering at Carleton, TELUS’ chief technology officer was able to return to campus to celebrate the $1.4 million investment he helped to secure for his alma mater.

“Carleton was the logical choice for this centre: engineering is in its DNA. Carleton has the right attitude and adaptability,” he says.  Gedeon is responsible for TELUS’ technology strategy, network and services architecture, and network support systems.  “Canada is a huge country; the way to enable people is to give them a remote infrastructure, to develop services and applications; this is what cloud is all about.”

The centre will be a venue for performing cutting-edge research in cloud computing. Students, faculty and industry will research real-world problems associated with enterprise clouds, including management of computing, on-demand storage and network resources, data-centre networking, scalability, business continuity and security.