Cloudy future for trusted virtualisation

Posted by Ken Y-N on October 22nd, 2008 at 04:54pm

Intel and Oracle have joined together to work on implementing standards for security and efficiency in cloud computing. In a nutshell, cloud computing allows you to run an application anywhere on a set of computers out there on the internet. When you add trusted computing, in particular trusted computing with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), things get more than a little hairy as when your application floats from one part of the cloud to another, the TPM needs to follow.

So, these two companies have teamed up to work on these standards, using technolgy as detailed here:

The collaboration will be centered on marrying the Intel’s Virtualization Technology (VT) with Oracle grid computing solutions like the Oracle database, Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management, Application Grid, Enterprise Manager, and VM.

A key feature which will be thus enabled is what the companies are calling Trusted Computing; the technology, based on Intel’s VT, enables “hardware-rooted security” based on “new security features and capabilities into the processor, chipset, and other platform components,” according to Intel.

Oracle will not be just using Intel; they are also expected to use similar features available from AMD.

Read the full story at eFluxMedia here.

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