Cloud

Clouds

Research opportunities and challenges

Cloud research is focused on delivering an application and computing end-state of Everything-as-a-Service: billions of users, accessing millions of services, through thousands of service providers, over millions of servers, processing exabytes of data, delivered through terabytes of network traffic.

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.

 

 

» HP, Intel and Yahoo! Cloud Computing Test Bed