A Personal Perspective on Cloud Computing

Speaker:        Professor Zhen Xiao
                Peking University

Title:          "A Personal Perspective on Cloud Computing"

Date:           Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Time:           3:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theatre H (near lifts 27/28), HKUST

Abstract:

Cloud computing has been touted as a solution for "pay as you go" service.
But how well does this model really work in practice? What kinds of
applications are suitable for this model? What are some of the underlying
challenges? In this talk, I'll offer some of my personal perspectives on
those issues. I'll first review the basic concepts in cloud computing, and
then give an overview on cloud computing in China and elsewhere. After
that, I'll argue why cloud computing model has not become more popular and
present some technical work from our group to address those challenges. In
particular, I'll focus on two of the relatively unexplored areas in
clouding computing: fast instantiation of application replica and hot
mirroring in the virtualized environment.


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Biography:

Zhen Xiao is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Peking
University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in January 2001.
After that he worked as a senior technical staff member at AT&T Labs - New
Jersey and then a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center. His research interests include cloud computing, virtualization,
and general distributed systems issues. He is a senior member of ACM and
IEEE.