Cloud Interoperability Workshop Introduction

Editor's Notes

• #3: Cloud is becoming a dominant model for deploying applications and services. A large set of tools are available for building and managing your private cloud. At the same time, many public cloud providers are increasing and improving their offering to host application and services in their infrastructure. Each tool and cloud providers are proposing their specific interface. If someone has to deploy an application in multiple clouds for any reasons (location, regulation, redundancy, risk mitigation…), he is usually forced to use different interfaces, VM formats, storage APIs, … We can easily conclude that we need some form of interoperability between clouds.
• #4: There are two approaches for interoperability that we consider. The first is from the user point of view. It allows a cloud user to interact with multiple cloud providers using the same set of interfaces. The user can place processing or data in one cloud or another without having to cvhange the application. The second approach is to consider the cloud providers as a federation of clouds. The fulfilment of user requirements will be done by combining resources from different cloud providers using a distributed control plane.
• #6: Yuri Demchenko Senior Researcher at System and Network Engineering Research group at the University of Amsterdam where his main research areas are Security of distributed systems, Cloud security and architecture. He has numerous publications on different aspects of security in network resource provisioning, Grid, Cloud and co-authored 3 RFCs. Active participation in standardisation activity: co-chair of the OGF Research Group on Infrastructure Services on-Demand provisioning (ISOD-RG); NIST Collaboration on Cloud Architecture development. He is currently involved into EU Projects GEYSERS, GEANT3 Azimeh Sefidcon Azimeh Sefidcon is a Senior Researcher at Research Area Packet Technologies at Ericsson. She has a PhD in IP Mobility, routing and QoS and practical contribution to radio network architecture. Her current area of research is Cloud, Mobility and network management. She is currently the leader of the Cloud Networking work package in SAIL. Patsy Phelan Patrick Phelan is a senior researcher at Waterford Institute of technology within the Telecommunication Software group. He is currently working on the ICT PASSIVE project which he will talk about today. Previously he was working on the Future Internet Project 4WARD. Morris Riedel Morris Riedel is with the Juelich Supercomputing Centre co-leading the distributed systems and data division after working in the field of computational HPC steering and online visualization. He worked in EC projects such as UniGrids, OMII-Europe, DEISA2, EMI, and EUDAT while being the only European member of the architecture team of the US supercomputing infrastructure XSEDE. He gained considerable profile through numerous publications in the field of e-Infrastructure interoperability between HTC and HPC contributing as editorial board member to the EC SIENA Roadmap on Cloud and Grid Standards.