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Displaying articles for: 04-22-2012 - 04-28-2012

Enabling End-to-End Data Tracing in the Cloud with HP TrustCloud

HP_Labs_Singapore_TrustCloud_framework.pngIn my last blog post in the series “Tracing Data for Provenance, Transparency and Accountability in Cloud Computing”, I discussed how data is taking centre stage in cloud computing, and how current system tools are unable to effectively log file accesses and transfers within a Cloud environment.

 

These two factors call for a data-centric, detective approach which enables data events in the cloud to be captured, recorded and analyzed. We need a solution that enables all cloud stakeholders to monitor data files in the cloud and ensure that they remain where should be.

 

In this post, I want to introduce our proposed TrustCloud framework for managing the information in the cloud, as well as the granularities of data logs collected.

HP Labs gets smart about energy use – starting with its own main building

Contributed by Simon Firth, freelance technology journalist

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Next to every pair of overhead lights in HP Labs’ headquarters office – in a facility known as Building 3 – you’ll find a small white disk, the size of a smoke alarm. 

 

Each disk connects to a dimmer that controls the room’s lighting nearby and inside each disk is a tiny wireless transmitter that connects to a central server. Thanks to these commercially available third-party devices, it’s possible to remotely adjust the lighting at a building-wide scale down to the illumination of a single desk.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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  • Steve Simske is an HP Fellow and Director in the Printing and Content Delivery Lab in Hewlett-Packard Labs, and is the Director and Chief Technologist for the HP Labs Security Printing and Imaging program.