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What Does it Mean to be a Strategic NESSI Project?

Dr. Yaron Wolfsthal

Sr Mgr, System Technologies and Services

IBM Haifa Research Laboratory

Strategic Project Summit 2010, Valencia

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Introduction to Reservoir

Reservoir = 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 bodies

IBM is the technical leader and project coordinator

NESSI Strategic Project, focusing on ICT infrastructure

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Federation of Cooperating Computing Clouds

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A Public Cloud

Thick walls in between clouds, i.e., each is an autonomous management entity

Clouds 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/compute

Components of same virtual appliances (composite image) need to communicate over isolated virtual networks regardless of location

Reservoir Research Challenges

RemoteCloud

Live 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

Physical host

VM VMVM

Physical host

VM VMVM

Physical host

VM VMVM

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Being an Nessi Strategic Project…

Implications/guidelines with respect to two phases of the project life cycle

- Preparation

- Execution

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NSP Life Cycle - Preparation

Identify where you want to be on the NESSI Stack

EngineeringTools

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Service consumers

Infrastructure

ConsumerAdaptation

AbstractedInfrastructure

Service

Composition

BPM view

Ser

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NativeServices

ExternalServices

InteractionServices

End userInterface

ContextHandling

Mapping users perspectives to business/Integration

Infrastructure and DataAbstraction

DataManagement

ResourcesManagement

KnowledgeModelling

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ServiceModelling

SVNModeling

InfrastructureModelling

SBS/SBAModelling

ContextModelling

BusinessProcess Execution

InformationServices

ServiceCommunication

ServiceDiscovery

Mediation SLANegotiation

SVN Lifecycle

Management

ServiceCoordination

IntegrationServices

Reasoning

ServiceExecution

LifecycleManagement

ServiceRegistration

BusinessProcessModeling

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NSP Life Cycle - Preparation cont.

Leverage the NESSI organization and network

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NSP Life Cycle - Preparation cont.

Partner Role Comment

IBM HRL Technology Project Lead, Virtualization/SOA Infrastructure

Telefonica I+D Technology Service Technology, Billing Infrastructure

UCM Technology Grid, Dynamic Allocation Technology

Thales Technology Security, Virtualization Infrastructure, Hosting

SAP Use-Cases Use-Cases, Contribution to Requirement an Standards

Sun Microsystems Use-Cases + Tech Contribution to Standards, Java Services, Monitoring

DATAMAT Technology Service Management Technologies

University Lugano Technology Partner, Monitoring and SLA Management

University UMEA Technology Monitoring, Measuring and Billing Technology

University Messina Technology Grid Experience, Testbed Development,

UC London Technology Virtualization Technology

CETIC Technology Security

OGF Standardization Grid and Virtualization Standards

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NSP Life Cycle- Execution

Be prepared to invest money and effortA sizable research team

Your sponsors expects return on investment- Your company

- The commission

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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 visibility

Consultation, reviews

Working with other NESSI projects

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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 technology

For academic partnersFlow of strong research results

For all partnersVisibility and access to policy makers, momentum for new projects

For the usersBetter, earlier access to technology and exploitation

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