National Grid Seminar Series

Cloud Computing Research in HP Labs

Chris Whitney
Director, Service Automation & Integration Lab
HP Labs, USA

17 February 2009 (Tuesday)
1200 hours @ Training Room
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
8 Temasek Boulevard #14-00
Suntec Tower 3
Singapore 038988

Abstract

HP Labs is the exploratory and advanced research group for Hewlett-Packard, tackling complex challenges facing by customers and society over the next decade, while pushing the frontiers of fundamental science.

“Cloud services” is one of the research themes that is crucial to defining the future of information technology. Cloud services research is focused on delivering an application and computing endstate 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.

In this session, Chris Whitney will share on how corporations can be enabled to implement new business models utilizing a global ecosystem of services delivered over the cloud.

Biodata

Chris Whitney is director of the Service Automation & Integration Lab at HP Labs, the company’s central research and development arm, where he leads the effort to develop a business operating environment for the global
services ecosystem. Prior to assuming his current position, Whitney managed HP Services' research and innovation group, focused on developing new services and solutions for HP Consulting, Integration, Outsourcing and Support organizations.

From 2000 to 2005 he held vice president roles at Exodus Communications and at Cable & Wireless, where he developed lights-out, virtualized, automated data center solutions. He also founded ActiveReasoning, a California-based startup company developing data center compliance and management software. Whitney first joined HP Labs in 1994, developing automated servicemanagement capabilities for HP’s OpenView and other products. He received his bachelor of science in computer science from Teesside University and a master of science from South Bank University, London.

Access Grid Setup (time quoted as GMT+8)

We will conduct a round of tests on 17 February 2009, at 1000 hours. AG details are as follows:
Access Grid Venue Server:
https://vv3.ap-accessgrid.org:8000/Venues/default (Must use AG3.1) Lobby: APEC TEL

Please contact Napat Chalakornkosol
(temp_napatchalakornkosol@ngp.org.sg) for further details and coordination for the tests.

Admission is Free. All are Welcome.