Current Innovations: Monsoon

Monsoon, developed by HP Labs Singapore, aims to provide comprehensive cloud infrastructure management in a hybrid cloud environment. The focus is on providing the capability to manage various cloud resources across multiple providers empowered by a multi-tenanted infrastructure management portal with featured tools to meet the requirements of enterprise operations.

This starts with basic functionalities such as user management, access control, resource management, monitoring and reporting. Advanced features are also available to complement current offerings from cloud providers such as corporate account, policy enforcement and tools enabling service marketplace. Also included in this is a set of intuitive tools and wizards that allow users to easily create system infrastructure for their projects. A major motivation for Monsoon is the empowerment of the end-users of both infrastructure and software services.

Monsoon will debut in Singapore Government Cloud (G-Cloud) following the award of a tender by the Infocomm Development Authority to HP and Singtel in 2012. When completed, G-Cloud will be one of the first government-wide cloud systems in the world, used by all government agencies in Singapore. HP Lab Singapore, which undertook research work on Monsoon, will translate the innovation into a multi-tenanted user-facing system that takes orders from the user and provides a complete interface for agencies to provision, manage and monitor their cloud resources and services.