Cloud Computing Workshop Day: Monday, February 22, 2010

8:00 Registration & Coffee

8:30 - 9:15 KEYNOTE: Cloud Computing Initiatives At DISA

Session Leader:

Alfred Rivera
Director, Computing Services
DISA

9:30 - 11:30 Coordinating Cloud Computing Standards

As cloud computing is becoming a reality for enterprise data centers, standards are increasingly important to provide interoperability between enterprise clouds and cloud service providers. This workshop will focus on current and emerging standards that will be utilized to enable enhanced portability and flexibility of virtualized applications in this emerging cloud computing paradigm.

What will be covered:

  • Mapping cloud use cases to standards
  • Leveraging the enumerable and quantifiable benefits of the cloud
  • Maintaining total control over private and sensitive data

How you will benefit:

  • Investigate the true opportunity that cloud computing offers
  • Learn best practices to effectively use these applications

Session Leader:

Doina Bein
Research Associate, Information, Science and Technology Division of the Applied Research Laboratory
Pennsylvania State University

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch For Workshop Attendees And Speakers

12:30 - 1:30 Cloud Computing On Volatile Resources

Increasingly services are being deployed over large-scale computational and storage infrastructures. To meet ever-increasing computational demands and to reduce both hardware and system administration costs, these infrastructures have begun to include Internet resources distributed over enterprise and residential broadband networks. As these infrastructures increase in scale to hundreds of thousands to millions of resources, issues of resource availability and service reliability inevitably emerge. This workshop will drive a change in software development methodology.

What will be covered:

  • Explore the endless opportunities of cloud computing
  • Learn best practices to effectively use these applications

How you will benefit:

  • Learn key strategies for empowering agency-wide participation
  • Understand how to develop applications that are cost-effectively in scale

Session Leaders:

Wu-chun Feng
Associate Professor, Director, SyNeRGy Laboratory
Virginia Tech

Heshan Lin
Senior Research Associate
Virginia Tech

1:30 - 2:30 Secure Cloud Computing: A Researcher’s Viewpoint

Due to several hard-to-resist benefits, Cloud Computing, in such forms as Storage as a Service, Software as a Service, and Platform as a Service, has been increasingly embraced by the industry as well as governments. However, security (e.g., data protection, availability, data loss, sense of control) tops the list of concerns with cloud computing (InformationWeek Survey). This session will discuss the truths and misunderstandings about secure cloud computing.

What will be covered:

  • Does cloud computing really make enterprise IT solutions more vulnerable?
  • Securing an enterprise's clouds is more a management issue or a technical issue?
  • What are the new technical hurdles beyond properly deploying current security protection tools? How could these hurdles be overcome?

How you will benefit:

  • Gain a deeper understanding of the security issues associated with cloud computing, particularly from a technical point of view
  • Distinguish the truths from the misunderstandings about secure cloud computing
  • Learn the emerging R&D challenges in making cloud computing secure and trustworthy

Session Leader:

Dr. Peng Liu
Associate Professor, Director, Cyber Security Lab
Penn State University

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