EMC and Chinese universities collaborate on Trusted Computing

Posted by Ken Y-N on June 11th, 2008 at 01:41pm

Quite frankly, I do raise a sceptical eyebrow whenever I hear China and Trusted Computing in the same sentence, but this is university work that will be peer reviewed, so perhaps I should not be so concerned.

EMC has joined a global research project on trust and assurance in cloud computing that includes four top technical universities in China, namely Fudan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Tsinghua University and Wuhan University. The outline of the project is:

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.

There is a Wiki-based home page for the Daoli Project, as it is known, and which seems to mean “reason”. There will be detailed exploration of this project at the upcoming 3rd Annual Asia-Pacific Trusted Infrastructure Technologies Conference (APTC 2008) in China this October.

Read the full press release at the Earth Times site here

Tags: china, cloud computing, emc