EMC Joins Elite Technical Universities in China in Online Research Collaboration HOPKINTON, Mass., June 10
HOPKINTON, Mass., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced its
participation in the Daoli Trusted Infrastructure Project, a global research
collaboration on trust and assurance in cloud computing environments. EMC
joins a growing global research team that today includes four of China's
leading technical universities including Fudan University, Huazhong University
of Science and Technology (HUST), Tsinghua University, and Wuhan University.
The project explores trust and assurance issues that are becoming
increasingly important to enterprises as they entrust their applications and
data-and their customers' data-to computing environments outside of their
local control. As companies begin to leverage virtualization within and beyond
their data-centers, the virtualized computers, networks, and storage platforms
become components in a multi-tenant environment. This multi-tenancy and
portability make providing security challenging. This research work is an
exploration of techniques that could be applied to secure both the underlying
physical plant as well as broadly shared resources.
Project participants will share their discussions of research-in-progress
with researchers worldwide by way of a wiki, which is hosted by Tsinghua
University in Beijing, China. Their goal is to generate a knowledge-base of
best practices and answers to questions about trusted information
infrastructures. It is the first public research collaboration environment to
be connected to the EMC Innovation Network, EMC's global research program
launched one year ago.
"The team is exploring the convergence of several key technologies
including cloud computing, trusted computing, and virtualization, and looking
at how they might be applied to provide high assurance software environments
inside and outside the enterprise," said Burt Kaliski, Director, EMC
Innovation Network. "The Daoli Project will help us understand what our
customers are likely to encounter in the future. We look forward to sharing
the knowledge this research will generate."
Later this year, the project's research area will be explored in detail as
part of the 3rd Annual Asia-Pacific Trusted Infrastructure Technologies
Conference (APTC 2008), an academic research workshop being held October 14-18,
2008 (http://grid.hust.edu.cn/aptc08/) in China.
The Daoli Project was showcased at EMC World 2008 in Las Vegas in May as
part of the EMC World Innovation Showcase Pavilion, an interactive exhibit
highlighting the latest in EMC research and development.
About EMC Innovation Network
Advanced technology groups across EMC, their university research partners,
and research groups at RSA Laboratories are discovering and exploring
technologies that will shape the information infrastructure of the future. The
EMC Innovation Network is a worldwide collaboration of these advanced
technology researchers exploring these and many other areas. Some, such as the
technologists at RSA Laboratories and EMC Research China, are academically
oriented. Others deliver commercial concepts as prototypes, product proposals,
and patents.
About EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider
of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable
organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value
from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be
found at http://www.EMC.com.
Daoli Project University Research Team Quotes
Fudan University
The EMC and Fudan University relationship began in October 2007 with the
launch of the Fudan-EMC Innovation Network Joint Labs for coordinating
comprehensive collaboration activities including joint research projects,
student awards, EMC courses, and hardware and software labs. As the powers of
virtualization and security continue to unfold, we look forward to long term
collaboration with EMC, particularly with the Daoli Project and Fudan-EMC
Innovation Network Joint Labs.
Professor Zang Binyu, Fudan University in Shanghai
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
The HUST research team in Wuhan, China focuses its efforts on novel ways
for users to benefit from a trusted cloud computing solution. Our goal is that
HUST's technical strengths in, and our approach to, cloud computing research
will render it possible for a seamless and secure manner for factoring,
deployment, and migration of cloud computing environments. We believe our
research will help to uncover many useful software as a service applications
for users.
Professor Jin Hai of HUST
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University and EMC have many areas of collaboration. Tsinghua
University has a lot of experience with regard to high performance computing
clusters and data centers. We are very glad to be part of the Daoli Project
research team. We also appreciate the dedication to openness of the Daoli
research findings and believe the benefits will span the entire research
community from industry leaders to academia.
Professor Zheng Weimin of Tsinghua University
Wuhan University
We aspire to alter the association of 'made in China' to 'created in
China'. Wuhan University's participation in the Daoli Project is evidence of
this. We are thrilled that our work in trusted computing technologies, an area
of strength for our University, has not only played a very useful role in the
Daoli Project, but also as valuable input to the rest of the collaboration. We
look forward to long term collaboration with the EMC Innovation Network.
Zhang Huanguo of Wuhan University
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