EMI is partially funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement RI Commercial applications of open source middleware: the EMI and DCore experience Alberto DI MEGLIO, Florida ESTRELLA, CERN Robert HARAKALY, DCore Systems EGI Technical Forum Prague 20/09/2012

EMI INFSO-RI Applications Integrators, System Administrators EMI Roadmap 27/03/2012EGI/EMI Conference Standards, New technologies, Users and Infrastructure requirements EMI Reference Services 3 yearsBefore EMIAfter EMI Specialized services, professional support and customization Standard interfaces

EMI INFSO-RI What happens after the end of EMI? EMI Sustainability Plan – published in May 2012 – describes the ideas and actions that EMI is taking to support continuation of products and services Based on EMI partners plans and their continuing collaboration But sustainability is also (mostly?) about generating revenues Sustainability 27/03/2012EGI/EMI Conference 20123

EMI INFSO-RI The function-value pyramid 27/03/2012EGI/EMI Conference Technology Channel Infrastructure End-users Market CMarket A Market B Size of market impact

EMI INFSO-RI A Multi-tiered Effort 27/03/2012EGI/EMI Conference Technology Channel Infrastructure End-users Commercial distributed services Research grids, HPC Open Science Companies Federated Identities, more scalable info sys, virtual app. Open Source Commercial infrastructures ScienceSoft Commercialisable Products Medical, financial, legal professionals, Public administrations New communities (ESFRI, Humanities, etc.) EMI Core Public and private grid/cloud sites, HPC Grid sites, WLCG, LSGC, HPC Centers, App. Dev. HEP, biomed, environment, etc. Size of market impact EGI, NGIs, NeIC, PRACE, OSG, Op. Sys.

EMI INFSO-RI Open source ScienceSoft Open Science 27/03/2012EGI/EMI Conference 20126

EMI INFSO-RI Several tries made, some good, some less: – Google, RedHat, Technicolor, Buerhoop, SysFera, etc. Lessons learned: – Cannot sell “the grid”, it’s not just about software – Clear problem, clear solutions (tailored subsets of services) – Technology/Business “cultural” exchanges Commercial exploitation 27/03/2012EGI/EMI Conference 20127

Robert Harakaly Chief Technology Officer DCore Systems Switzerland SA

EMI INFSO-RI DCore Systems R&D and Support programs Collaborations Our products Other achievements Summary Overview

EMI INFSO-RI European technology group – Privately funded – Focus on novel (IT) technologies coming from European science MID public-private collaboration program InCube technology incubator program DCore Systems Switzerland SA DCore Systems Academic partner MID Lab InCube

EMI INFSO-RI Research & development branch of DCore Systems Sets up collaboration labs with academic partners – MID Switzerland with HEIG-VD – MID Bulgaria with STRI/Sofia University – MID Slovakia with Safarik University – MID Germany & Italy (in discussion) Result of our EMI sustainability model Each MID lab uses and enhances one or more EMI components MID Lab

EMI INFSO-RI DCore’s technology incubator program Private or joint technology incubators – Y-Start, Yverdon, Switzerland – Sofia, Bulgaria (in planning) – Kosice, Slovakia (in planning) Support program for newly created technology start-ups – Business, administrative and legal support – Investment network – Marketing and distribution network InCube

EMI INFSO-RI DCore uses components (storage & security components) from EMI MW stack Commercial products and services MID laboratories Investment support DCore Systems & EMI sustainability

EMI INFSO-RI MID Switzerland: joint lab focused on big- data mining and analysis MID Bulgaria: joint lab focused on storage middleware, data archiving and data mining MID Slovakia: joint lab on cloud technologies, cloud provisioning middleware and Internet-scale services DCore Collabs/joint labs

EMI INFSO-RI DCore is also interested in the ScienceSoft concept as – Incubator of ideas, marketplace for services We believe that a similar business model as the MID/EMI sustainability program could be applied to collaborations within ScienceSoft DCore & ScienceSoft

EMI INFSO-RI High security enterprise storage, collaboration and archiving systems Highly secure solutions Scalable cloud based content delivery Cloud and scalability managers BigData analysis platform DCore products

EMI INFSO-RI In June 2012, we presented our approach at EMI review, with positive feedback Sinefo * : received €2’000’000+ investment funding – MID R&D centre with HEIG-VD, Switzerland Cubepad * : launches in October – HFile secure enterprise file storage: pilot deployment (10’000 users) – Large scale service deployment (1M+ users) – MID R&D centre with PF UPJS, Slovakia * A company part of DCore System technology group DCore achievements

EMI INFSO-RI Making research products “commercial” is difficult Need companies with resources and a suitable business model Software cannot be given away for free, think how to generate revenues/benefits Combine research innovation with marketing expertise It can work! Conclusions 27/03/2012EGI/EMI Conference

EMI INFSO-RI /03/2012EGI/EMI Conference EMI is partially funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement INFSO-RI