myTrustedCloud

Investigating the interaction between Cloud and Trusted computing with a practical demonstration for the energy industry.

There are currently a profusion of projects working with the ‘cloud’, a flexible computational platform allowing significant scalability and service based provision model. Unfortunately there are currently significant limitations in assuring data provenance when using these systems, in terms of guaranteeing both the origin and operations performed on data. This is limiting uptake by a number of communities whose emerging information models appear otherwise well suited. The situation is complicated by the only available software on which a user community or institution would build a cloud being limited with a number based on a single open source solution. As an alternative the commercial providers have each developed their own software solutions, the internals of which are not visible, including the models of trust and security that are applied to these infrastructures.