OPTIMIS was at the IEEE CloudCom 2011 Workshop: Market Implementation of Cloud Interoperability and Portability Research in IaaS and PaaS

OPTIMIS presented the OPTIMIS' scenarios in a round table at the IEEE CloudCom 2011 Workshop: “Market Implementation of Cloud Interoperability and Portability Research in IaaS and PaaS” During the past Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 in Athens, Greece.

 A representative from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center presented in the session: Use Cases and Solutions emerging from European Research in Clouds, and presented  the "OPTIMIS: Hybrid Cloud and bursting scenarios".

The workshop examined a sample of today’s interoperability and portability research efforts in infrastructure and platform layers of the Cloud stack, and analyzed the feasibility of their implementation into market offerings. This balance between research and practicality brings together market perspectives from the IaaS and PaaS arena with participation of European FP7 projects such as Mosaic, Optimis, Contrail, gSLM, e-Fiscal and Cloud4SOA.

Interoperability and portability are increasingly relevant needs in Cloud computing as it continues its rapid adoption through infrastructure and platform offerings. For the user, these capabilities are key to counteract the risk of vendor lock-in, a primary barrier for user uptake. On the provider side, complex scenarios in the IaaS layer such as Cloud brokerage, Cloud bursting, hybrid Clouds and multi-Cloud federation require provider-to-provider collaboration largely based on the interoperability of various infrastructures. In addition, in the “year of the PaaS” (Gartner, March 2011), portability is of great importance, as applications developed in one platform’s ecosystem quickly become over-dependent on that particular platform’s future.

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Optimis Scenarios Presentation in the CloudCom