NEW DEVELOPMENT IN TECHNOLOGY OF CLOUD  technique has been dubbed "space travel" because it sends computer data to a world outside its home, and bridges the gap between computer hardware and software systems. "Space travel might change the daily practice for many services offered virtually for cloud providers and data centers today, and as this technology becomes more popular in a few years, for the user at home on their desktops," said Dr. Zhiqiang Lin, the research team's leader and an assistant professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. As cloud computing is becoming more popular, new techniques to protect the systems must be developed. Since this type of computing is Internet-based, skilled computer specialists can control the main part of the system virtually – using software to emulate hardware. Lin and his team programmed space travel to use existing code to gather information in a computer's memory and automatically transfer it to a secure virtual machine – one that is isolated and protected from outside interference.