Cloud Computing Research
Overview
Cloud Computing represents the convergence of a number of technologies into a set of service-based offerings. These services may be securely offered across geographically-dispersed systems to ensure availability and reliability. The notions of self-service provision, scalability and elasticity, service levels, and business models represent are particularly interesting.
The Cloud Computing research theme at Surrey provides a focal point for explorations with and using Cloud Computing systems.
Funded Research
- KTP with CDO2
- KTP with Surrey Wildlife Trust
- JISC Project: Cloud Computing Research Use Cases - with Curtis+Cartwright
- Amazon Grant for Cloud Computing Research Use Cases
- Amazon Grant for Service Level Agreements Research
Resources
Teaching activities
- Masters Module on Cloud Computing
- Amazon Grant for Cloud Computing teaching
- Rightscale
Conferences and Workshops
- Research Clouds: Hype or Reality? Workshop at 2010 e-Science All Hands Meeting, Cardiff, 15 September 2010
- CBSA: Cloud-based Services and Applications, Florida, 5-10 July 2010
- IEEE DEST: Digital Ecosystems, Daegeon city, Korea, 31 May - 3 June 2011
Recent Publications
- Find out more about the proposed Cloud Computing Journal
- Nick Antonopoulos and Lee Gillam (2010) "Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications. Springer-Verlag. See Springer website for more information
- Bin Li and Lee Gillam (2010) "Towards Application-Specific Service Level Agreements: Experiments in Clouds and Grids". In Antonopoulos and Gillam (Eds.), Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications. Springer-Verlag In press
- Kate Craig-Wood, Paul Krause and Nick Craig-Wood (2010) Analysis of CPU & disk I/O utilisation in a real-world deployment of 950 virtual machines. In International Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization (CCV 2010).
- Lee Gillam, Neil Cooke and Jonathan Skinner (2009) "Towards Executable Acceptable Use Policies (execAUPs) for Email Clouds". IEEE e-Science 2009 workshop on Cloud-based Services and Applications.
- Bin Li and Lee Gillam (2009) "Towards Job-Specific Service Service Level Agreements in the Cloud". IEEE e-Science 2009 workshop on Cloud-based Services and Applications.
Presentations
- Lee Gillam, "If the sky is blue, are Clouds Green?". Presented at The Security Forum, sponsored by Sophos, at the premises of Field Fisher Waterhouse, Vine Stree, London, 9 September 2010.
- Lee Gillam, "Cloud Computing: Green Technology or Greenwash?". Presented at the BCS Green SG AGM, at BCS Offices in London, 8 September 2010.
- Lee Gillam, "Want Sustainable and Green? Seed Computing Clouds". Presented at the HEA-ICS workshop on SustainablIT: Green and Sustainable Computing - education and practice, BCS London, 13 May 2010.