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SUMMARY:Plug into the Supercloud - Hakim Weatherspoon\, Cornell University
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:Cloud computing is often compared to the power utility model a
 s part of a trend towards the commoditization of computing resources. Howe
 ver\, today’s cloud providers do not simply supply raw computing resourc
 es as a commodity\, but also act as distributors\, creating cloud services
  that are not compatible across providers. In this talk\, I will discuss a
  new cloud service distribution layer\, called a Supercloud\, that is comp
 letely decoupled from the cloud provider. A Supercloud gives its users the
  illusion of their own homogenized private cloud (albeit\, layered on top 
 of one or more third-party providers). Under the hood\, the Supercloud can
  include different hypervisors\, hardware architectures\, storage subsyste
 ms\, and connectivity fabrics.  Leveraging a nested paravirtualization lay
 er called the Xen-Blanket\, the Supercloud maintains the control necessary
  to implement hypervisor-level services and management.  Currently\, the S
 upercloud has been deployed using resources from several major cloud provi
 ders\, including Amazon EC2\, Rackspace\, HP Cloud\, and some private clou
 ds. VMs run in a virtual network and can be migrated seamlessly across di
 fferent clouds\, with different hypervisors and device models. Using cas
 e studies we demonstrate that\, being able to deploy applications to more 
 regions and granting more control to end-users\, the Supercloud can reduce
  latency and cost compared to the underlying cloud providers.
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 21 Station Road\, Cambridge
 \, CB1 2FB
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