Friday, November 19, 2004
11:00 AM
CSB 209
Jason Nieh
Columbia U.
Secure Remote Computing Services
Advances in network speed and ubiquity have created the conditions for building a secure remote computing service (SRCS) to address the security and management problems with today's IT infrastructure. SRCS moves all application logic and data from insecure end-user devices, which attackers can easily corrupt, steal and destroy, to autonomic server farms in physically secure, remote data centers that can rapidly adapt to computing demands especially in times of crisis. Users can then access their computing state from anywhere, anytime, using simple, stateless Internet-enabled devices. In this talk, I will describe technologies and results in three key areas essential for building SRCS: wide-area remote display mechanisms for delivering display content to users, server resource management mechanisms for ensuring desired quality of service levels for users, and transparent migration mechanisms for enabling fault-resilience, load balancing, and high availability for SRCS application services.