TY - GEN
T1 - Dependability in the cloud
T2 - 2009 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2009
AU - Joshi, Kaustubh R.
AU - Bunker, Guy
AU - Jahanian, Farnam
AU - Van Moorsel, Aad
AU - Weinman, Joseph
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Cloud based infrastructures are rapidly becoming a destination of choice to host a variety of applications ranging from high availability enterprise services and online TV stations, to batch oriented scientific computations. With investments of billions of dollars, the fortunes of dozens of companies, and major research initiatives staked on its success, it is clear that cloud computing is here to stay. However, it is not yet clear whether cloud services can be a dependable alternative to dedicated infrastructure. On one hand, availability and privacy are serious challenges for applications hosted on cloud infrastructure. On the other hand, a cloud provider's economies of scale allow levels of investment in redundancy and dependability that are difficult to match for smaller operators. Furthermore, the ability to monitor large numbers of applications can enable "wisdom of crowds" approaches to provide enhanced security much in the same way that network providers have been able to do with worms and DDoS attacks. The panel will discuss new dependability related challenges and opportunities that arise in the context of cloud computing, some examples of which are as follows.
AB - Cloud based infrastructures are rapidly becoming a destination of choice to host a variety of applications ranging from high availability enterprise services and online TV stations, to batch oriented scientific computations. With investments of billions of dollars, the fortunes of dozens of companies, and major research initiatives staked on its success, it is clear that cloud computing is here to stay. However, it is not yet clear whether cloud services can be a dependable alternative to dedicated infrastructure. On one hand, availability and privacy are serious challenges for applications hosted on cloud infrastructure. On the other hand, a cloud provider's economies of scale allow levels of investment in redundancy and dependability that are difficult to match for smaller operators. Furthermore, the ability to monitor large numbers of applications can enable "wisdom of crowds" approaches to provide enhanced security much in the same way that network providers have been able to do with worms and DDoS attacks. The panel will discuss new dependability related challenges and opportunities that arise in the context of cloud computing, some examples of which are as follows.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/70449976322
U2 - 10.1109/DSN.2009.5270350
DO - 10.1109/DSN.2009.5270350
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70449976322
SN - 9781424444212
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
SP - 103
EP - 104
BT - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2009
Y2 - 29 June 2009 through 2 July 2009
ER -