1. 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

2. Introduction to Reservoir
Reservoir = Resource and Service Virtualization w/out Barriers
Advanced technologies for cloud computing
An infrastructure project
Automation of processes in a cloud environment
Scalability of infrastructure thru federation
European-funded collaborative research project
3 Years EU FP7 project started in February 2008
Budget: € 17 million
13 partners from across industry, academia and standards bodies
IBM is the technical leader and project coordinator
NESSI Strategic Project, focusing on ICT infrastructure

3. Federation of Cooperating Computing Clouds
Thick walls in between clouds, i.e., each is an autonomous management entity
My Private Cloud
My Partner Cloud
A Public Cloud
Components of same virtual appliances (composite image) need to communicate over isolated virtual networks regardless of location
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

4. ? Reservoir Research Challenges Remote Cloud
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
Remote
Cloud ? 4

5. Being an Nessi Strategic Project…
Implications/guidelines with respect to two phases of the project life cycle
- Preparation
- Execution

6. NSP Life Cycle - Preparation
Identify where you want to be on the NESSI Stack
Engineering
Tools
Service consumers
Interaction
Services
End user
Interface
Context Modelling
Consumer
Adaptation
Mapping users perspectives to business/Integration
Context
Handling
Knowledge Modelling
BPM view
Business
Process Execution
Information
Services
SVN Lifecycle Management
SVN Modeling
“System” Platform
Business
Process Modeling
Composition
Service
Coordination
Mediation
SLA
Negotiation
Service
Discovery
Service Platform
Service Communication
SBS/SBA Modelling
Lifecycle Management
Service
Registration
Service
Service Execution
External
Services
Native
Services
Integration
Services
Reasoning
Service
Modelling
Abstracted Infrastructure
Infrastructure and Data Abstraction
Monitoring
Infrastructure
Resources Management
Data
Management
Infrastructure
Modelling

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

8. NSP Life Cycle - Preparation cont.
Partner
Role
Comment
IBM HRL
Technology
Project Lead, Virtualization/SOA Infrastructure
Telefonica I+D
Service Technology, Billing Infrastructure
UCM
Grid, Dynamic Allocation Technology
Thales
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
Service Management Technologies
University Lugano
Partner, Monitoring and SLA Management
University UMEA
Monitoring, Measuring and Billing Technology
University Messina
Grid Experience, Testbed Development,
UC London
Virtualization Technology
CETIC
Security
OGF
Standardization
Grid and Virtualization Standards
-Partner list / competencies still needed: focus on members (and SMEs)
inclusion

9. NSP Life Cycle- Execution
Be prepared to invest money and effort
A sizable research team
Your sponsors expects return on investment
- Your company
- The commission

10. 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

11. NSP Life Cycle- Execution cont.
The net result is positive
Overall, the gain is well worth the effort
For industrial project partners
Earlier production and exploitation of technology
For academic partners
Flow of strong research results
For all partners
Visibility and access to policy makers, momentum for new projects
For the users
Better, earlier access to technology and exploitation

12. Thank You !