The 42nd IPP Symposium

Cloud Computing

Orran Krieger, VMware

Cloud computing and Virtualization are fundamentally transforming the computer industry. These trends will profoundly change everything from how we develop applications, to the management stacks we use, the way we design datacenters, the way we design computers, and how we deliver end-user computing. In this talk I will give a quick overview of VMware's overall vision for cloud computing, and then focus on VMware's approach to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). I will discuss first the fundamental abstractions necessary in an IaaS offering to make it of broad utility, then describe some of the technical challenges we see in implementing such an offering, and then discuss some of the long term challenges that will require fundamental research to solve.

Orran Krieger is a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware working on cloud computing and an adjunct associate professor in computer science at CMU. From 1996 to 2007, he was the manager of the advanced operating system research team at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He received a BASc from the University of Ottawa in 1985, a MASc from the University of Toronto in 1989, and a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1994, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was one of the main architects and developers of the Hurricane, Tornado and K42 operating systems, and has made significant contributions to several production and research hypervisors and computer systems/architectures. He has a numerous publications and patents.