What Does it Mean to be a Strategic NESSI Project?Dr. Yaron WolfsthalSr Mgr, System Technologies and ServicesIBM Haifa Research Laboratory

Strategic Project Summit 2010, Valencia

Introduction to ReservoirReservoir = Resource and Service Virtualization w/out Barriers

Advanced technologies for cloud computingAn infrastructure projectAutomation of processes in a cloud environmentScalability of infrastructure thru federation

European-funded collaborative research project 3 Years EU FP7 project started in February 2008Budget: 17 million13 partners from across industry, academia and standards bodiesIBM is the technical leader and project coordinator

NESSI Strategic Project, focusing on ICT infrastructure

Federation of Cooperating Computing CloudsMy Partner CloudMy Private CloudA Public CloudThick walls in between clouds, i.e., each is an autonomous management entityClouds differentiate from each in terms of cost and trust level, for while a public cloud maybe very cheap, companies will be reluctant to put in there sensitive data/computeComponents of same virtual appliances (composite image) need to communicate over isolated virtual networks regardless of location

Reservoir Research ChallengesRemoteCloudLive migration across subnet boundaries, live migration without shared storage, live migration with large latencies (large distances), on-the-fly creation of virtual networks, efficient image distribution

Being an Nessi Strategic ProjectImplications/guidelines with respect to two phases of the project life cycle- Preparation- Execution

NSP Life Cycle - PreparationIdentify where you want to be on the NESSI StackEngineeringToolsSystem PlatformService consumersInfrastructureConsumerAdaptationAbstracted InfrastructureServiceCompositionBPM viewService PlatformNativeServicesExternalServicesInteractionServicesEnd userInterfaceContextHandlingMapping users perspectives to business/IntegrationInfrastructure and Data AbstractionDataManagementResources ManagementKnowledge ModellingMonitoringServiceModellingSVN ModelingInfrastructureModellingSBS/SBA ModellingContext ModellingBusinessProcess ExecutionInformationServicesService CommunicationServiceDiscoveryMediationSLANegotiationSVN Lifecycle ManagementServiceCoordinationIntegrationServicesReasoningService ExecutionLifecycle ManagementServiceRegistrationBusinessProcess Modeling

NSP Life Cycle - Preparation cont.Leverage the NESSI organization and network

NSP Life Cycle - Preparation cont.

NSP Life Cycle- ExecutionBe prepared to invest money and effortA sizable research team

Your sponsors expects return on investment- Your company- The commission

NSP Life Cycle- Execution cont.As a reference project, you are expected to do more and push the envelope on multiple dimensions- Technology - Exploitation- Community support and visibilityConsultation, reviewsWorking with other NESSI projects

NSP Life Cycle- Execution cont.The net result is positiveOverall, the gain is well worth the effort

For industrial project partnersEarlier production and exploitation of technologyFor academic partnersFlow of strong research resultsFor all partnersVisibility and access to policy makers, momentum for new projects For the usersBetter, earlier access to technology and exploitation

2009 IBM Corporation

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*-Partner list / competencies still needed: focus on members (and SMEs)inclusion