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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

HP Labs SAaaS: Situational Awareness-as-a-Service

At HP Labs Bristol we are making good progress towards the development of a futuristic demonstrator in the space of Situational Awareness, named “Situational Awareness-as-a-Service (SAaaS).




This demonstrator focuses on the disaggregated IT of current/future organisations which increasingly rely on third parties (IaaS, SaaS providers in the Cloud, etc.) to carry out their IT and business activities.



We demonstrate the issues and opportunities related to safely handling information sharing between the organisation and its various providers, in a context of a future Next Generation IT Operation Centre and Security Operation Centre (SOC).



This includes illustrating the trade-offs in defining information sharing policies and handling queries to gather data from the involved parties, the clever analytics processing that can be performed on top of shared data (e.g. by leveraging HP Software solutions, HP/HPL SILAS, etc.) and the role of external, trusted information aggregators.



HP Labs will use the SAaaS vision to develop further innovative technologies in the area of controlled analytics and information sharing for large data sets.



The demonstrator currently consists of various storyboards focusing on IT and security information sharing stories. I am looking for public, real stories within organisations highlighting the pain points and issues in current disaggregated IT and security operations. The goal is to showcase them and illustrate how they could improve by leveraging SAaaS and future HPL/HP technologies.



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