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Research at Cisco

Virtualization and Clouds

Overview

Virtualization of resources and services enables on-demand provisioning and geographic mobility of complete applications, networks, data centers, and systems. Prominent features of virtualization include fault tolerance, scalability, and reduced cost of acquisition and ownership.

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Description:

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Security

  • Information protection.
  • Control function integrity.
  • Penetration defenses.
  • Rights policies and their secure implementation

RFP: Predicting Security Vulnerabilities in Software Components

Management

  • Accounting, different types of billing mechanisms, statistical, micro, etc.
  • Provisioning and configuration
  • Metrics
  • Monitoring

RFP: Service Infrastructure (open call)

Virtualization

  • Moving virtual devices such as routers, firewalls
  • Virtual service platforms
  • Hot mobility – moving devices while they are online