Title:  Data Management in the Cloud

Speaker: Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich)

Abstract:

There has been a great deal of hype about cloud computing. Cloud computing
involves a new business model in which hardware resources (network bandwidth,
storage, and CPU cycles) are provisioned in a fine-grained way. Cloud
computing is successfully applied for several computing tasks such as
scientific data analysis or sharing of multi-media objects. The purpose of
this talk is to investigate the use of cloud computing to deploy and run
general-purpose Web-based applications. To this end, this talk presents a
novel database and application server architecture presented and gives the
results of experiments conducted running the TPC-W benchmark on top of
Amazon Web Services (i.e., EC2 and S3).