Jerry Horgan
Jerry received his BSc (Applied Computing) and MSc (Communications Software) degrees from Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland and his MSc (IT & Management) degree from the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Jerry worked at the Walton Institute (formerly TSSG) in SETU from 2003 to 2024 where he led the Research Infrastructure and Testbeds Division, where he built out large-scale cloud research platforms. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Mathematics in South East Technological University, focussing on Networking, Cloud Services, and Cybersecurity and a Research Affiliate with the Walton Institute.
His current research interests include Quantum Communications, Security, and Software Defined Infrastructure.
South East Technological University
Job title –Lecturer
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In 2024, inspired by the Mass Open Cloud (MOC), and in collaboration with the MOC Alliance (MOC-A), Red Hat Waterford and the Walton Institute at SETU collaborated and partnered in establishing an experimental cloud for researchers, staff and students in both organisations. These are the first steps in extending the MOC-A into Europe. Already, this private/public sector collaboration has created a community of new OpenShift and RHEL users with bare metal access. It has been made possible by recycling a super computer, installed in the liquid cooled Walton data centre, with operations provided by SETU, tech support for the ops team provided by Red Hat, and initial testing by the RH-OCTO team in Waterford. Positive interest around the project has attracted additional infrastructure in the form of storage funded by SETU, and an IBM Z LinuxONE mainframe.
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