Dagstuhl Seminar 12281
Security and Dependability for Federated Cloud Platforms
( Jul 08 – Jul 13, 2012 )
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Organizers
- Paulo Jorge Esteves-Veríssimo (University of Lisboa, PT)
- Matthias Schunter (INTEL ICRI - Darmstadt, DE)
- Marc Shapiro (UPMC - Paris, FR)
- Michael Waidner (TU Darmstadt, DE)
Coordinator
- Rüdiger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig, DE)
Contact
- Andreas Dolzmann (for scientific matters)
- Annette Beyer (for administrative matters)
Computing services are increasingly pooled within global utility computing infrastructures offered by providers such as Amazon, Google and IBM. Infrastructure clouds provide virtual machines and resources. These infrastructure clouds are used to enable "platforms as a service" that simplify implementation of arbitrary scalable services.
The seminar targeted the management and protection of individual clouds and addressed the trend towards cloud federation by bringing together researchers from systems management, security, and dependability. The idea was that only such an integrated approach is able to guarantee security and dependability while preserving the essential cost and efficiency benefits of today's emerging solutions.
The challenge to address was how to provide secure and dependable services on such federated cloud platforms. Selected research questions were: How can clouds securely interoperate, how can service availability be guaranteed despite failures or attacks by individual clouds, how can existing algorithms be adjusted to provide scalable eventual consistency, and finally whether cloud-of-cloud infrastructures can provide such benefits at costs that are competitive with single cloud solutions.
While these questions where addressed during the seminar it got also clear that dependability and security of single clouds is by far not solved and therefore was also discussed in depth.
- Artur Andrzejak (Universität Heidelberg, DE) [dblp]
- Alysson Neves Bessani (University of Lisboa, PT) [dblp]
- Herbert Bos (VU University Amsterdam, NL) [dblp]
- Sara Bouchenak (INRIA - Grenoble, FR) [dblp]
- Gregory Chockler (IBM - Haifa, IL) [dblp]
- Miguel Pupo Correia (IST - Lisbon, PT)
- Maria Couceiro (INESC-ID - Lisboa, PT)
- Alexandra Dmitrienko (Fraunhofer Institut - Darmstadt, DE) [dblp]
- Dan Dobre (NEC Laboratories Europe - Heidelberg, DE)
- Paulo Jorge Esteves-Veríssimo (University of Lisboa, PT) [dblp]
- Kurt Geihs (Universität Kassel, DE) [dblp]
- Nicolas Geoffray (Google - Aarhus, DK)
- Gabriela Gheorghe (University of Luxembourg, LU) [dblp]
- Stephan Groß (TU Dresden, DE)
- Flavio Paiva Junqueira (Yahoo Research - Barcelona, ES) [dblp]
- Rüdiger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig, DE) [dblp]
- Nikola Knezevic (IBM Research GmbH - Zürich, CH)
- Guillaume Pierre (VU University Amsterdam, NL)
- Peter R. Pietzuch (Imperial College London, GB) [dblp]
- Hans Peter Reiser (Universität Passau, DE) [dblp]
- Luis Rodrigues (Technical University of Lisboa, PT) [dblp]
- Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt, DE) [dblp]
- Nuno Santos (MPI-SWS - Saarbrücken, DE)
- Matthias Schunter (INTEL ICRI - Darmstadt, DE) [dblp]
- Marc Shapiro (UPMC - Paris, FR) [dblp]
- Alexander Shraer (Yahoo! Research - Santa Clara, US)
- Radu Sion (Stony Brook University, US) [dblp]
- Jan Stoess (KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, DE)
- Marko Vukolic (EURECOM - Biot, FR) [dblp]
- Michael Waidner (TU Darmstadt, DE) [dblp]
- Alexander Wiesmaier (AGT International - Darmstadt, DE)
Classification
- operating systems
- security
- cryptology
- world wide web
- internet
Keywords
- Security
- Cloud computing
- Virtual systems
- Dependability
- Grid computing
- Systems management
