{"id":3105,"date":"2014-06-02T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2014-06-30T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:39:07","slug":"bostonia-moc-cloud-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2014\/06\/02\/bostonia-moc-cloud-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Bostonia: MOC Pioneering a Cloud Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With Massachusetts pledging $3 million in state support, BU leaders in April announced plans for development of a path-breaking computing cloud that could spur economic growth and technology innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The plan calls for hosting the MOC at the MGHPCC data center, where it would tap the computational power of BU and its MOC partners, who have jointly contributed $16 million to MGHPCC, leveraging the $3 million matching grant from the state. Besides the participating universities, MOC partners are tech firms Red Hat, Cisco, EMC, Juniper Networks, SGI, Mellanox, Plexxi, Riverbed, Enterprise DB, Cambridge Computer Services, and DataDirect Networks.<\/p>\n<p>The MOC concept of a cloud marketplace grew out of\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=0952145\">BU research<\/a>\u00a0in 2009. In a recent\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/best\/res\/papers\/ic14.pdf\">paper<\/a>, Bestavros and Krieger argue that closed clouds usually have a single provider, who \u201calone has access to the operational data.\u201d For this and other reasons, they write, \u201cin the long run, if only a handful of major providers continue to dominate the public cloud marketplace, then any innovation can only be realized through one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a cloud designed like the MOC, their paper says, \u201cmany stakeholders, rather than just a single provider, participate in implementing and operating the cloud. This creates a multisided marketplace in which participants freely cooperate and compete with each other, and customers can choose among numerous competing services and solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another advantage: an open cloud would be more secure than a closed one, Bestavros and Krieger say. It is \u201cthe best way to make sure that software is clean,\u201d according to Bestavros, especially as American tech companies\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/aug\/08\/nsa-revelations-fears-cloud-computing\">complain<\/a>\u00a0that federal computer snooping might scare off billions of dollars\u2019 worth of cloud computing customers. With a public, open cloud like the MOC, \u201cthe National Security Agency cannot put backdoors in an open-source code, because you can see what the software is doing,\u201d he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/2014\/pioneering-a-cloud-computing-mall\">Read the Article<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Massachusetts pledging $3 million in state support, BU leaders in April announced plans for development of a path-breaking computing cloud that could spur economic growth and technology innovation. The plan calls for hosting the MOC at the MGHPCC data center, where it would tap the computational power of BU and its MOC partners, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11723],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}