Synopsis

(3:30 pm) Model-driven Automation
The increasing complexity of IT environments has made them difficult to manage in a cost effective manner. The talk will focus on HP Lab's approach to automating the lifecycle management of these complex environments. In particular the speaker will present a structured, model-driven approach to automating the management of such complex environments, present some of the technologies developed to design, schedule and deploy applications as well as tools for capacity management and automated diagnosis needed for on-going management of these environments. The speaker will also present one or two pilots that they have conducted to highlight how they are applying these technologies to solve real-world problems, discuss approaches for adopting these technologies and some of the cultural road-blocks that they face.

(4:30 pm) Grid & Enterprise Computing Security Problems & Solutions from Trusted Computing
The Trusted Computing (TC) initiative developed by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) takes a distributed-system-wide approach to secure computation. TC is a concrete concept as desired and conformed system behaviour which not only is established and maintained in a platform environment but can also be attested to a remote challenger. We consider that the notion of TC naturally suits security requirements for the grid. In this paper we propose an innovative approach to grid security from Trusted Computing.

About the speakers

Dr. Kumar Goswami is the manager of the Utility Infrastructure Management (UIM) Department at HP Labs. The primary focus of UIM is to provide technologies to simplify and automate the management of IT systems and to provide IT functionality as a service. Prior to HP, Kumar was the founder, President and CTO of Kovair, a VC-backed CRM company that provides a collaborative, sales application as a service to Fortune 1000 companies. Kovair was one of a handful of companies, along with Salesforce.com, that pioneered the concept of delivering software as a service. Kumar's career spans several companies where he has architected and lead teams in the development of VOIP systems, fault-tolerant distributed operating systems and real-time computer generated image systems. Kumar has published extensively in international conferences and journals. He has served as an advisor to several startups and is on the Executive Advisory Committee at his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received his Ph.D.

Dr. Wenbo Mao is a Principal Engineer in Trusted Systems Laboratory, HP Labs., Bristol. He received BSc in Mathematics, MSc and PhD in Computer Science, from Fudan University, Shanghai (1982), Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing (1987) and Strathclyde University, Glasgow (1993), respectively. His research interests include information security, cryptography and the grid. He has served as adjunct professor in Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia, and Fudan University, Shanghai China. He is the author of a textbook "Modern Cryptography, Theory and Practice" (Prentice-Hall 2003).