| National Grid Seminar Series
Co-organized with SMU
Model-driven
Automation (1530 - 1630 hrs)
Dr. Kumar
Goswami
(HP
Labs, USA)
Grid
& Enterprise Computing Security Problems and Solutions
from Trusted Computing (1630 - 1730 hrs)
Dr. Mao
Wenbo
(HP
Labs, UK)
7
December 2005 (Wednesday)
Networked Seminar Room, Level 2, Room 2.1
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
80, Stamford Road
Singapore 178902
Abstract
for "Model-driven Automation"
The increasing complexity
of IT environments has made them difficult to manage in
a cost effective manner.
The talk will focus on HP Lab’s approach to automating
the lifecycle management of these complex environments. In
particular the speaker will present a structured, model-driven
approach to automating the management of such complex environments,
present some of the technologies developed to design, schedule
and deploy applications as well as tools for capacity management
and automated diagnosis needed for on-going management of
these environments. The speaker will also present one or
two pilots that they have conducted to highlight how they
are applying these technologies to solve real-world problems,
discuss approaches for adopting these technologies and some
of the cultural road-blocks that they face.
Biodata
Dr. Kumar
Goswami is the manager of the Utility Infrastructure Management
(UIM) Department at HP Labs. The primary focus
of UIM is to provide technologies to simplify and automate
the management of IT systems and to provide IT functionality
as a service. Prior to HP, Kumar was the founder, President
and CTO of Kovair, a VC-backed CRM company that provides
a collaborative, sales application as a service to Fortune
1000 companies. Kovair was one of a handful of companies,
along with Salesforce.com, that pioneered the concept of
delivering software as a service. Kumar’s career
spans several companies where he has architected and lead
teams in the development of VOIP systems, fault-tolerant
distributed operating systems and real-time computer generated
image systems. Kumar has published extensively in international
conferences and journals. He has served as an advisor to
several startups and is on the Executive Advisory Committee
at his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
where he received his Ph.D.
Abstract
for "Grid & Enterprise Computing Security Problems and
Solutions from Trusted Computing"
The Trusted Computing (TC) initiative developed
by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) takes a distributed-system-wide
approach to secure computation. TC is a concrete concept
as desired and conformed system behaviour which not only
is established and maintained in a platform environment but
can also be attested to a remote challenger. We consider
that the notion of TC naturally suits security requirements
for the grid. In this paper we propose an innovative approach
to grid security from Trusted Computing.
Biodata
Dr.
Wenbo Mao is a Principal Engineer in Trusted Systems Laboratory,
HP Labs., Bristol. He received BSc in Mathematics, MSc
and PhD in Computer Science, from Fudan University, Shanghai
(1982), Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Beijing (1987) and Strathclyde University, Glasgow (1993),
respectively. His research interests include information
security, cryptography and the grid. He has served as adjunct
professor in Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Australia, and Fudan University, Shanghai China. He is
the author of a textbook "Modern Cryptography, Theory
and Practice" (Prentice-Hall 2003).
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This seminar series is organized by the National Grid Office
and
co-organized with SMU.
Admission
is Free. All are Welcome.
Please
register a place by 1000 hours on 6 December 2005
with Ms Vasugi (email: vasu@ngp.org.sg)
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