In the context of the CERN openlab collaboration, Patrick Goldsack (HP Labs) gave an IT computing seminar at CERN on Wednesday 25 March. His talk focused on 'Cells-as-a-Service', the Enterprise-Grade Cloud Infrastructure Research at HP Laboratories

The biography of Patrick Goldsack and the abstract of his lecture are available to you below. The pdf of the presentation should be available shortly.

Mélissa Le Jeune, CERN openlab

Abstract of the lecture:

The presentation describes research work in HP Laboratories on providing secure cloud infrastructure services. The talk covers some of the issues, both legal and technical, that enterprises and government face when considering the use of cloud computing within their core IT systems. It also describes a prototype system, known as Cells-as-a-Service, that has been developed in HP Laboratories to provide some of the guarantees that are required for widespread adoption by this customer group.

Biography of the speaker:

Patrick Goldsack is a Distinguished Technologist with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol where he has been working since 1987. He has worked in a variety of areas ranging from formal specification, distributed network monitoring and measurement technologies and most recently distributed management systems. He is best known for his work on the open source distributed configuration and management system "SmartFrog". Most recently he has been researching ways of providing secure cloud infrastructure services for large enterprises and governments. Patrick has an MA(oxon) in Mathematics from Oxford and an MSC in Electronic and Electrical Engineering.