Cloud computing is an exciting new tool which will allow corporation with multiple corporate data centers to operate in a manner resembling the Internet. It enables users to compute across distributed, global accessible fabric of resources. The success of will be judged on the ease with which additional technologies reduce the complexity and amount of resources needed for daily usage.
More locally, this work will be handled through CSE's CERCS for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (CETI) headed by Drs. Rajiv Ramnath and Jay Ramanathan.
"The CECCS program will not only be a new research facility, but it also will enable exciting, synergistic joint curriculum and research across these two institutions," said Rajiv Ramnath, CETI Director. "With this joint IT infrastructure across our two institutions, we will have available to our practice, research and education a prototype of the distributed infrastructures now used in business settings. We will use SOA methods to link different software silos running at both sites, dynamically monitor and manage a highly distributed virtualized infrastructure, and study and develop autonomic technology and integrated tools to develop and manage reference implementations of flexible, business-aligned enterprise architectures that will be used to research and educate on the issues of dynamics, diversity and complexity associated with this increasingly common computing structure."
OSU-CSE is looking forward to this work and being part of this exciting new venture.