TC: Large: Collaborative Research: Trustworthy Virtual Cloud Computing

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This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Proposal#: 0910767Collaborative Proposal #s: 0909980, 0910483, 0910653Title: TC: Large: Collaborative Research: Trustworthy VirtualCloud ComputingPIs: Peng Ning, Xuxian Jiang, and Mladen VoukAbstract:Virtual cloud computing is emerging as a promising solution to ITmanagement to both ease the provisioning and administration of complexhardware and software systems and reduce the operational costs. With the industry?s continuous investment (e.g., Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing, IBM Blue Cloud), virtual cloud computing is likely to be a major component of the future IT solution, which will have significant impact on almost all sectors of society. The trustworthiness of virtual cloud computing is thus critical to the well-being of all organizations or individuals that will rely on virtual cloud computing for their IT solutions. This project envisions trustworthy virtual cloudcomputing and investigates fundamental research issues leading to this vision. Central tothis vision is a new security architecture, which harnesses newopportunities and capabilities such as built-in out-of-band systemaccess, processor and hardware support for trusted computing, andout-of-box examination by hypervisors. This project focuseson key research issues following this security architecture, including newsecurity services that enhance the trustworthiness of virtual cloudcomputing, protection of management infrastructure against maliciousworkloads, and protection of hosted workloads from potentiallymalicious management infrastructure. The research will enable the adoption of virtual cloud computing for critical IT management in industry and government organizations. This project will involve both graduate and undergraduate students, and will produce open source software and tools, which will be made available to the public.