Juan José Hierro, CTO on Software Technologies, presented Telefónica’s vision on Cloud Technologies at the Grids, Clouds and Service Infrastructures” workshop organized by ETSI and OGF-Europe at Sophia Antipolis on last 2-3 December 2009.

In his speech, Juan  José Hierro presented the vision on the evolution of cloud technologies focused in three axis:

•  ICT infrastructure provisioning for hosted applications. First available Cloud Services  such as Amazon or Google already allow easy auto-provisioning of ICT resources for application developers in a pay-per-use model. But It still remains a long way until application providers will not have to have specialized knowledge on execution environments administration or until convergent computing and networking that will help to commit desired SLAs.
• Transformation of Cloud into an ecosystem for developing business opportunities. Clouds tend to add a “marketplace” that will allow customers to search, select and consume applications, supporting a number of business models: pay-per-use, revenue share or advertisement based. Clouds will also support th econcept of  “Mashup as a Service” that will allow end users selecting “parts” of each application, and then, combining them with other applications parts and/or telecommunications services.
• Clouds becoming a more complex programming environments, adding standard API (Application Programming Interfaces) specialized, for example, in the user context-aware access or the use of telecommunications (SMS/MMS submission, device localization, etc.).

Telefónica I+D is actively participating in leading Cloud R&D projects: RESERVOIR (FP7) and NUBA (Spanish Plan Avanz@) for evolution of hosting, 4WARD (FP7) and IRMOS (FP7) for network virtualization and QoS, and EzWeb (Plan Avanz@) for “Mashup as a Service” concepts.

The presentation slides are available here.

Organised by OGF-Europe Project and its Industry Expert Group (IEG), the workshop will focus on the need of standards to ensure that solutions and applications which are deployed today can be used tomorrow while avoiding vendor lock-in to ensure freedom of choice based on cost versus performance. Cloudscape delivers important insights into the current and future cloud computing landscape in Europe with interoperability for innovation in commercial and research settings firmly mind. 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: Hilton Brussels Hotel, Brussels Belgium

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2-3 December 2009. ETSI, Sophia Antipolis, FranceThe ETSI Technical Committee Grid is bringing together key stakeholders of the grid, cloud and telecommunication domains in a Workshop. This event intents to provide the telecommunication community with a better picture regarding the adoption and interoperability of agreed specifications and standards.

The workshop will include keynote speeches, invited presentations and panel discussions from the representatives of leading standardization bodies, industry and academia.

OGF-Europe has collaborated with the organization of the workshop and supports the event. Moreover, on behalf of OGF-Europe, Ian Osborne and me are collaborating in the Programme Committee.

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November 12th, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

CloudCamp is a worldwide series of “unconferences” where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate. Next event is going to be hold on Madrid.

The DSA-Research group of  UCM, which also hosts the event, and Telefónica I+D, both members of the Cloud Technologies Chapter of Morfeo, are going to be presenting the chapter and our experiences in projects such as Nuba, OpenNebula and Reservoir.

We look forward to seeing you there!

More information and registration at http://www.cloudcamp.com/madrid

Ignacio M. Llorente and I presented the Cloud Technologies Chapter status and objectives at the II Morfeo General Assembly on 26 March 2009. At this session, Cloud Technologies were presented as key for Future Internet of Services.

There is the opportunity on creating an European Interest Group on Cloud starting with an high-qualified Spanish seed: the chapter founders (DSA-Research Group from UCM and Telefónica I+D), and other organizations that have shown interest in becoming members (BSC, CESGA, Atos Origin, Catón, EyeOS and Xeridia). Everyone with expertise in service and infrastructure management, and sharing our common view of creating an Open Source Cloud Platform, is invited to collaborate within the chapter.

Therefore, Cloud Technologies Chapter objectives are:

• To create an Open Source Cloud Platform integrating existing and new components following a common cloud architecture view
• To promote the creation of R&D&i project proposals aligned with the Chapter’s Architecture view
• To lead the creation of an European Cloud Open Alliance to integrate an Open Source Reference Implementation of a cloud platform for Future Internet of Services
  • Aligned with NEXOF-RA (NESSI Service Open Framework-Reference Architecture)
  • Integrating FP7 and other R&D programs’ results

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