Written by Simone Ziggiotto, the 19/12/14
The multinational IBM has been awarded a Shared University Grant of 20 thousand dollars the University of Pisa and the Foundation Promostudi for research conducted in the field of security computer science from the team led by Professor Fabrizio Baiardi and Engineer Marcello Montecucco.
The award-winning research from IBM aims to “the development of tools to automatically evaluate the safety of complex ICT systems” is the statement published on the website of the University of Pisa. “The basic strategy is to simulate how the system reacts to attacks intelligent ICT capable of identifying the best routes to penetrate the system, check and steal any information of value.”
The team led by Professor Baiardi Montecucco and the engineer of the foundation Promostudi La Spezia is currently made up of six researchers and some students working for their master thesis. The 20 thousand dollars of the IBM Shared University Grant will be used to fund scholarships for graduates and graduate students to assist with research in progress.
“Our relationship with IBM started in 2012 when we presented them our activities research and, at the end of a worldwide competition, we won a computer system with 100 compute nodes, “says the professor of Pisa. “This system allows for high performance computing, fundamental for our research because we need to reproduce in detail the various steps needed to attack a computer system. This additional prize of 20 thousand dollars that we have obtained is therefore a new confirmation of the validity. “.
Meanwhile, IBM has announced that it intends to expand the number of data centers that provides customers around the world by 25 percent to meet the rapidly growing demand for Internet-based services. IBM has quadrupled the number of data structures cloud offering worldwide to 49 over the last 18 months, partly responding to the laws of governments that require local storage of data following the revelations of the monitoring programs implemented by the US government .
The company said on Wednesday that has now partnered with the provider of data center Equinix Inc for more cloud nine centers in Australia, France, Japan, Singapore, the Netherlands and the United States. In addition, the company is opening three new own computer facilities in Germany, Mexico and Japan.
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