Alexandros has his head in the clouds
Thursday 22 October 2009
PhD student Alexandros Marinos has been commended for his work on cloud computing. In an article on the Hewlett-Packard community forum, Alexandros' paper with Gerard Briscoe from the London School of Economics was cited as describing a new way of using data-centre capacity to support community clouds. Alexandros works with Professor Paul Krause in the Digital Ecosystems research group.
Briscoe, Gerard and Marinos, Alexandros (2009). Digital ecosystems in the clouds: towards community cloud computing. In: IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 1-3 June 2009, Instanbul.
Abstract
"Cloud Computing is rising fast, with its data centres growing at an unprecedented rate. However, this has come with concerns of privacy, efficiency at the expense of resilience, and environmental sustainability, because of the dependence on Cloud vendors such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Community Cloud Computing makes use of the principles of Digital Ecosystems to provide a paradigm for Clouds in the community, offering an alternative architecture for the use cases of Cloud Computing. It is more technically challenging to deal with issues of distributed computing, such as latency, differential resource management, and additional security requirements. However, these are not insurmountable challenges, and with the need to retain control over our digital lives and the potential environmental consequences, it is a challenge we must pursue."