Fall 2010 Colloquium

Virtual cloud computing is emerging as a promising solution to Information Technology (IT) management to both ease the provisioning and administration of complex hardware and software systems and reduce the operational costs. Several industry and university leaders have presented recently possible implementations, including IBM Research Compute Cloud (RC2), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Azure, and NC State Virtual Computing Lab (VCL). With the industry's continuous investment, virtual cloud computing is likely to be a major component of the future IT solution, which will have significant impact on almost all sectors of society. The trustworthiness of virtual cloud computing is thus critical to the well-being of all organizations or individuals that will rely on virtual cloud computing for their IT solutions. In this talk, I will discuss new threats to virtual cloud computing, present a new security architecture for virtual cloud computing, and describe a few research results aimed at securing the infrastructure of future virtual compute clouds. . . Bio: