Badrinath Ramamurthy Cloud Infrastructure

R. Badrinath's presentation discusses infrastructure in the cloud and related challenges and technologies. Some key points: - Cloud computing provides IT capabilities and services over the internet, allowing resources to be shared across multiple customers. This allows services to scale massively while maintaining flexibility. - Key challenges include achieving massive scale for millions of users, unprecedented flexibility, and breakthrough cost levels through automation and economies of scale. - Core technologies enabling the cloud infrastructure include virtualization of computing, storage, networking and provisioning/scheduling automation. - An example project called "Cells as a Service" aims to deliver secure, isolated virtual infrastructures to customers running on large physical infrastructures. - Service level agreements