Building a "Multi-Landlord" Public Cloud
LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
The Massachusetts Open Cloud is a collaboration between five universities, over a dozen industry partners, and the state of Massachusetts to establish a new model of cloud computing. In this model, independent providers offer unbundled services such as compute and storage within a single framework, providing much wider customer choice than existing single-provider clouds while lowering barriers to new and innovative cloud technologies.
What is the Mass. Open Cloud? What are our goals, who are our partners, and what are our plans? This and more will be discussed in our talk, as we describe a vision for the future of cloud computing in which economies of scale coexist peacefully with opportunities for individual innovation.
Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
Peter Desnoyers is a member of the Mass Open Cloud leadership team and an associate professor at Northeastern University, where his work has focused on operating systems, flash storage, and most recently cloud computing. He holds a PhD from UMass (2008) and a BS and MS from MIT (1988); in the intervening years he worked at companies ranging from Apple to VMware.
Orran Krieger, Boston University
Orran Krieger is the founder of the Mass Open Cloud and a research professor at BU, where he is founding directory for the Center for Cloud Innovation. He spent five years at VMware architecting the vCloud project, before which he was a researcher and manager at IBM T.J. Watson, leading the Advanced Operating System Research Department. He holds a PhD and MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
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author = {Peter Desnoyers and Orran Krieger},
title = {Building a "{{Multi-Landlord}}" Public Cloud},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
