A couple of weeks ago I was invited to present my position on Research Challenges in Cloud Infarstructures in the panel “Beyond Amazon: Using and Offering Services in a Cloud” at Future Internet Assembly, Madrid 2008. The aim of the talk was to present key differentiators between the RESERVOIR project and Amazon EC2, its research challenges in cloud infrastructures and a list of topics for further research. This post elaborates on this presentation in order to describe some of the research challenges that, in my opinion, will be addressed in the new year.
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A previous post introduced the concept of “Green IT”, trying to identify the reasons because this topic is raising a huge interest: economic savings and environmental benefits due to the lower power consumption and potential greater use of clean energy sources. This post gives a brief overview of how this Green Computing concept can/should be implemented.
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“The way in which companies’ IT infrastructure has grown is proving unsustainable. Most corporate data centers are built upon tons of underused hardware that require more and more people, space and power to keep them going. The current economic malaise will increase the pressure on companies to become more efficient. More has to be done with less, which is cloud computing’s main promise.”
The Economist Special Issue on Cloud Computing.
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Organised by OGF-Europe Project and its Industry Expert Group (IEG), The CloudScape workshop examines how Cloud Computing is shaping the overall distributed computing landscape at a time when service oriented architectures are becoming increasingly more common and the benefits of cloud computing are coming into sharper focus.
An expert group of enterprise members, researchers, policy makers, EC representatives and analyst will offer focused discussion on the board set of technologies and solutions that fall under the umbrella term of Cloud and Distributed Computing. Peruse the current agenda. |
Registration is free of charge. Places are limited.
Venue: Marriot Hotel, near Grand Place, Brussels Belgium
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“Green IT” is a term that is getting more and more used in the ITC field all around the world. It is supposed to be a “multifaceted, global effort to reduce energy consumption and promote sustainability”. Of course the renewed global interest on ecology has pushed the term, but the point is that there are several, very real, facts that further justifies this interest. So, what is the buzz about?
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