Cloud Computing

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Research Areas

Blog Topics
  • The organization of business operations in the cloud makes things easier to map and track.  This can be a good or bad aspect of the cloud.  Rather than server infrastructure all over the place you have need clouds where you can track things.  Tenancy maps.
  • Failure of adopting the cloud without a plan and proper regulation and growth can be a mistake our enemies might make on the global front.  Can we leverage
  • How to define tenancy in clouds that span multiple countries.
  • Skytap evaluation areas
  • LongJump evaluation areas
  • Mosso evaluation areas
  • OpenID, Microsoft, Goverment ID.
Projects
  • The projects are funded through NSF's Cluster Exploratory program, which will access a cloud datacenter established for educational use in 2007 through a partnership between Google, IBM and six academic institutions, of which the UW was the first member. NSF joined the group last year.
  • Defense information system agency (disa) seeking proposals to establish cloud like Google.  DOD will run on Global Info Grid (GIGA)
  • Health and Human services center for disease control released technology infrastructure procurement that listing cloud computing on it.
  • Navy next generation enterprise industry day.  Navy intends on releasing RFP, they are interested in Cloud Computing.
  • California Secretary of State Debra Bowen spoke to the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet's Politics Online conference on Monday about how she has embraced new technologies to make government more accessible and accountable to the public. She and Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner emphasized the promise of cloud computing, the storage of large amounts of data by external hosting providers with the goal of saving money and increasing efficiency.
  • Eric Kansa and Erik Wilde are both adjunct professors at the School of Information and are part of the school's Information & Service Design (ISD) program.  Raymond Yee is a lecturer who teaches the I School course "Mixing and Remixing Information."
Other Areas
  • HSPD-12 Policy for a common ID Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors
  • Section 508 - 
  • Gather data from all federal agencies projects where cloud computing could apply. (Recovery Money)
  • Gather data from all state agencies projects where cloud computing could apply.(Recovery Money)