The Cloud on Your Computer, or Bringing the Power of Virtualization to Your Laptop/Desktop

Richard Beer
Visiting Professor, Computer Science Department Sonoma State University

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

These days Cloud Services go way beyond online storage services. Major players like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google offer a smorgasbord of online Cloud Services ranging from simple cloud storage solutions to software as a service, hardware as a service, and even whole computing infrastructures as a service. In this talk, I will demonstrate how all of the above can be achieved even on any half-way modern laptop. It will be limited in performance but not in the scope of services provisioned. This can be achieved entirely with free software. The talk will provide a step-by-step life demonstration of creating a complete computing infrastructure consisting of different operating systems and servers.