Cloud
Research opportunities and challenges
With the proliferation of the Internet has come the opportunity to provide real-time access to consumer and business products, software and solutions, without the requirement that a user personally own the underlying resource. Cloud services are accessed over the Internet via user-friendly web interfaces, they are location agnostic, they can be hosted through third party service providers and they can be quick to improve based on real-time customer feedback.
Several elements are required for cloud technologies to enable an “Everything-as-a-Service” economy:
- A shared cloud infrastructure that provides enterprise-grade security, scalability and quality of service.
- A development environment that makes it easy for enterprise application developers who are used to creating small standalone applications to in turn deliver secure- multi-tenant applications horizontally scalable to millions of users.
- An operating environment that seamlessly delivers and updates Cloud services without impacting user experience.
- An easy way to combine multiple Cloud services in order to achieve business or personal tasks.
» Automated Infrastructure Lab
Develop technologies for highly automated, secure, dynamic instantiation and management of cloud computing infrastructures and services.
» Service Automation and Integration Lab
Enabling corporations to implement new business models utilizing a global ecosystem of services delivered over the cloud.
» Social Computing Lab
Harvest the collective intelligence of communities to realize greater value from the interaction between people and information.
» Systems Security Lab
Create a trustworthy information-system environment.
» Web Services and Systems Lab
Create high-value software and services that transform business document processes and business document publishing services.
» HPL Japan: Community and Interactive Media Lab
Research new community and interactive media services.