Delivering Industry-Led Research in Cloud Computing

Tony McEnroe

Centre Director

Cloud Computing

Delivery of virtualised IT infrastructure over the internet, with the following characteristics:

Cloud Architectures

Cloud Migration Steps

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Cloud – more than a passing trend

Cloud ComputingOn the Slope of Enlightenment

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EU-28 Avg. = 19%

Enterprise Cloud Usage in EU

2.5% 13.5% 34%

2015

Irish Enterprise Cloud Adoption

28% of Irish Companies use the Cloud Increase to 80% by 2020 Large number of Late Adopters

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Information and Communication

Scientific and Technical Services

Real Estate Activities

Administrative and Support Services

Utilities (Electricity, Gas etc)

Accomodation

Wholesale and Retail

Manufacturing

Transport and Storage

Construction

Percentage Usage

EU-28 Avg. = 19%

Cloud Usage by Industry Sector

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Security & Privacy

Legal & Regulations

Data Location

Data & Software Access

Vendor Lockin

Cost

Lack of Knowledge SME

Large

Percentage of Companies

Barriers to Cloud Usage in EU

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E-mail

Storage

Database Hosting

Office Software

Financial Applications

CRM Applications

Business Process Apps.Poland (6%)

Germany (11%)

Ireland (28%)

Most Common Cloud Apps.

Percentage of Companies

Irish government-funded national centre for industry-led cloud computing research, established in 2012

Accelerate the development and adoption of Cloud Technology

Industry-led centre of excellence for innovation and applied research in cloud computing technologies

Irish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce

IndustryGovernment

AcademiaCommunity

Users

brings government, industry, academia and users together

Quadruple Helix Partnership

1. Industry or market demand

2. Addressable actionable technical / business problem

3. Interesting research

4. Theoretical contribution

Agile approach to industry-led research

6 months

Research driven by a diverse industry membership base

Applied

Research

Targeted

Research

Member

Events

IC4 Activities

• Interoperability SOA

• Disaster Recovery across platforms

• Storage abstraction layer for the cloud

Architecture

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

• Catalogue of Migration Patterns

• Migrating Document Management

Software to a Document Management

as a Service.

• Predictive Resource Scaling for Cloud

Platforms

Migration

Architecture

Catalogue of Migration Patterns

• Quality of Service Metrics and Monitoring

• Pervasive Monitoring Anomaly Detection

• SLA Enforcement

• IoT Monitoring and Analytics Platform

Service Lifecycle Management

A Trust Label for the Cloud

• A real-time, digital, trust mark for cloud services• Analogous to nutritional label on food products

Business

• Sales Diagnostic Tools

• Effects of cloud technology on management accounting and business

decision-making

• SaaSPay Cloud Monetisation Stack

• Real time data mining to inform cloud decision making

• Integrated Framework For Assurance and Accountability In The Cloud

• CloudPass: Nutritional Label for Cloud Services

• Potential and Impacts of Cloud Computing Services and Social Network Sites

• US an EU Cloud Regulations Review

• Bluemetrix: Big Data & Cloud Computing• Business Process as a Service• Adopting the Cloud at Honda (UK)• Cloud Computing Initiatives at BP• Open Infrastructure as a a Service Review• SourceDogg: Cloud-based Procurement• Cloud Brokerage• Connected Car

Case Studies and Briefing Papers

• Searchable Encryption

• Property Based Attestation

• HTML5 Threat Assessment

• Intelligence Driven Security

• Risk Catalogue for Authentication in the Cloud and Mobile Deployment

• Attack Penetration Test Software Prototype

Mobile and Cloud Security

Encrypt and Send Search and Decrypt

Searchable Encryption

IC4 developed a proprietary, spelling error tolerant, algorithm for searching encrypted documents using encrypted search words.

Outreach Events

Workshops Drop-In Clinics

Seminars Forums

NC4

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Why collaborate with the Irish Centre for Cloud

Computing and Commerce?

• Industry-led and market-facing

• Multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional

• Sprint projects (3-6 months)

• Agile output-driven lean research model

• Favourable industry-friendly IP arrangements

Research the way industry wants it

THANK YOU

Tony.McEnroe@DCU.ie