Fact sheet to accompany HP, Intel & Yahoo! cloud computing press release

HP Labs Drives Innovation in Intelligent Infrastructure and Dynamic Cloud Services
Open innovation initiative with Intel and Yahoo! aims to deliver on promise of cloud computing Researchers at HP Labs, the central research arm of HP, will use the newly announced Cloud Research Test Bed – a collaboration among HP, Intel and Yahoo! – to work with industry leaders, academia and governments worldwide to advance innovation in the area of cloud computing.
Cloud computing plays a key role in realizing HP’s vision of Everything as a Service,
where devices and services will interact seamlessly through the cloud, and businesses
and individuals will use services that anticipate their needs based on location,
preferences, calendar and communities.
HP Labs, which recently sharpened its focus to help HP and its customers capitalize on
this industry shift, will use the test bed to conduct advanced research in the areas of
intelligent infrastructure and dynamic cloud services. Initially, HP Labs will focus its
research in the test bed on five projects:
• Cells as a Service is a prototype management system for cloud infrastructures that
centers on the creation of Service Cells – secure “containers” for virtual infrastructure
elements. Each Cell can contain an arbitrary assembly of virtual machines, virtual
storage volumes and virtual networks, connected into whatever design of IT
infrastructure a customer desires. Cells are securely isolated from one another,
although connectivity between Cells can be established in controlled ways. This
enables the management of a cloud infrastructure to be automated and allows for the
dynamic deployment and management of services offered through the cloud. The
project will be conducted by researchers in the Automated Infrastructure Lab at HP Labs
Bristol.
• The Exascale Data Center Project aims to radically redesign the future data center and
its computing components, delivering significantly improved customer experience at
dramatically lower costs. The proposed new data center will be built from simple, cost-
efficient “building blocks” of hardware and software designed by the HP Labs research
team. This project will be conducted by researchers in the Exascale Computing Lab at
HP Labs Palo Alto.
• The goal of the Scalable Storage Project is to develop an enterprise storage service
that can automatically scale to store petabytes of data across geographically dispersed
locations, and offers a non-stop, fault tolerant, self-managing platform that can be
simultaneously used by multiple parties for different purposes. This project will be
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conducted by researchers in the Storage and Information Management Platforms Lab at
HP Labs Palo Alto.
• Service Lifecycle Management (SLiM) is a management system for converting any type
of application into a service – not just traditional services – and managing the lifecycle
from design, to deployment, to adaptation, to termination. SLiM will leverage the
automated infrastructure made possible by the Cells as a Service system to
automatically manage the lifecycle of cloud services. This project will be conducted by
researchers in the Automated Infrastructure Lab at HP Labs Bristol.
• The Sustainable Data Center Project focuses on developing sustainable IT approaches
that are more energy efficient and will reduce the environmental impact of the massive
data centers required to house cloud computing systems. This project will be conducted
by researchers in the Sustainable IT Lab at HP Labs Palo Alto and Bristol.
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and partners; the achievement of expected results; and other risks that are described in HP’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
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Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-
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