1. Research in Cloud Computing
February 2013
Contacts: Daniel A. Rodríguez Silva <darguez@gradiant.org>
Luis Rodero-Merino <lrodero@gradiant.org>
GALICIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS

2. Cloud Computing in
Gradiant: an Overview
Expertise (key technologies)
• Federation
• Elasticity
• Security/Privacy
HW and SW resources
Current projects
Intellectual property
Dissemination
CENTRO TECNOLÓXICO DE TELECOMUNICACIÓNS DE GALICIA

3. Expertise in Federation,
Elasticity and Security
Federation
• Federation solutions combine the capacity of several clouds for better
scalability and availability.
• Gradiant has a running prototype of a solution for transparent PaaS
federation (Cloud Me Up project).
Elasticity
• Automatic scaling of resources under demand.
• Gradiant members have experience on the design and development of
elasticity solutions.
Security/Privacy
• Encryption solutions for safe storage, management and processing of
sensitive information in the cloud.
• Gradiant has developed SW for transparent encryption of documents in
Google Docs (SafeGDocs). Also, Gradiant develops SW and HW solutions
to ensure data privacy in the cloud, for example to manage health records.
CENTRO TECNOLÓXICO DE TELECOMUNICACIÓNS DE GALICIA

4. HW and SW Resources
Hardware
• Storage (in cabinet), total 62 TBs
- HP M6612 2TB 6G SAS 7.2K 3.5in MDL HDD x 24
- HP M6625 600GB 6G SAS 10K 2.5in HDD x 24
• Servers, total 304 cores and 1.22 TBs RAM
- 1 x HP DL980 G7 Intel E7 2860 (80 cores, 512 GBs RAM)
- 2 x HP SL390 G Intel X5675 (24 cores, 192 GBs)
- 4 x HP DL380G7 Intel Performance (48 cores, 192 GBs)
- 2 x HP DL380G7 Intel Efficiency (24 cores, 96 GBs)
- 2 x HP DL385G7 AMD Performance (64 cores, 128 GBs)
- 2 x HP DL385G7 AMD Efficiency (64 cores, 128GBs)
• Cryptoprocessors
- 2 x Utimaco SE10 PCIe boards
Software
• Experience with several Cloud, Big Data and Green Computing
solutions.
• Internally developed software for cloud security, storage,
provisioning and monitoring.
CENTRO TECNOLÓXICO DE TELECOMUNICACIÓNS DE GALICIA

5. Current Projects
Cloud Me Up http://innovation-labs.com/cloudmu/
• Federated and hybrid PaaS cloud.
• SOA-oriented, component-based development of PaaS apps.
• Cloud MU is a Spanish Fondo Tecnológico project.
• Consortium: Indra Labs, Imaxdi, Ednon, SaecData.
CENTRO TECNOLÓXICO DE TELECOMUNICACIÓNS DE GALICIA

6. Current Projects (II)
SCAPE
• A Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza project.
• 3 subprojects related with security/privacy and cloud computing.
Cloud Seep (long-term)
• Cloud data processing in the encrypted domain using SPED
techniques.
Criptonube (medium-term)
• Building secure clouds using cryptoprocessors.
SafeGDocs (short-term)
• Transparent encryption of documents in SaaS (Google Docs).
CENTRO TECNOLÓXICO DE TELECOMUNICACIÓNS DE GALICIA

7. Current Projects (III)
HIGEA
• Securing e-health data in the cloud, combining SQL and NoSQL solutions.
Spanish Innpacto project, with Coremain.
ICLOPYME
• Automated control of resources in IaaS clouds.
Spanish Avanza project, with Zentyal (SME).
VIMAIN
• „Applications as a Service‟ through virtualization (VNC + streaming).
Spanish Innpacto project, with TRC (SME).
SAFECLOUD
• Platform to build secure cloud applications using SPED mechanisms.
Spanish Incite project, with University of Vigo.
CENTRO TECNOLÓXICO DE TELECOMUNICACIÓNS DE GALICIA

8. Intellectual Property
Patents
• “CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SECURE
COMPUTATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING DIRECTLY ON
ENCRYPTED DATA IN UNTRUSTED ENVIRONMENTS”
US pat. 61240177, 2009
• “SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SECURE ITERATIVE
COMPUTATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING DIRECTLY ON
ENCRYPTED DATA IN UNTRUSTED ENVIRONMENTS”
US pat. 61240179, 2009
• “CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SECURE
ITERATIVE MATRIX INVERSIONS AND SOLVING SYSTEMS
OF LINEAR EQUATIONS”
US pat. 61240181, 2009
CENTRO TECNOLÓXICO DE TELECOMUNICACIÓNS DE GALICIA

9. Dissemination
Conferences
• “Videosurveillance based on Cloud Storage”
D. A. Rodríguez-Silva, D. González-Martínez, L. Adkinson-Orellana, F. J. González Castaño, I. Armiño-
Franco. 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2012), Honolulu, USA, June 24-
29, 2012
• “Secure Crypto-Biometric System for Cloud Computing”
David González Martínez, Enrique Argones Rúa, José Luis Alba Castro, Francisco Javier González Castaño,
Daniel A, Rodríguez Silva. First International Workshop on Securing Services on the Cloud (IWSSC 2011),
Milan, Italy, September 7, 2011
• “Encrypted Domain Processing for Cloud Privacy. Concept and Practical
Experience”
D. A. Rodríguez-Silva, F. J. González-Castaño, L. Adkinson-Orellana, A. Fernández-Cordeiro,
J. R. Troncoso-Pastoriza, D. González-Martínez. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Cloud
Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2011), Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands) May 5-10, 2011
• “Sharing Secure Documents in the Cloud. A Secure Layer For Google Docs”
Lilian Adkinson-Orellana, Daniel A. Rodríguez-Silva, F. Javier González-Castaño, David González-
Martínez. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
(CLOSER 2011), Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, May 5-10, 2011
• “Privacy for Google Docs: Implementing a Transparent Encryption Layer”
Lilian Adkinson-Orellana, Daniel A. Rodríguez-Silva, Felipe Gil-Castiñeira, Juan C. Burguillo-Rial.
2nd Cloud Computing International Conference (CloudViews 2010) , O Porto, Portugal, May 20-
21, 2010
CENTRO TECNOLÓXICO DE TELECOMUNICACIÓNS DE GALICIA