Postdoctoral Fellow, Cloud Computing Initiative, Boston University
Jason Hennessey is a member at the Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI) at Boston University. Prior to joining the CCI, Jason worked in industry, including several years at Digital/Compaq/HP as a Unix kernel engineer and at VMware working on cloud computing. As part of his PhD work, he studied the preservation and longevity of digital resources used in scholarly literature.
At the CCI, and as part of the Mass Open Cloud efforts, he is focused on researching several aspects of implementing a large, multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud including scheduling, security, privacy, cost assessment models and the overall architecture.