Several hundred visitors from the technical press, analyst organisations, industry, academia and government were introduced to the SLA@SOI project, the consortium, the SLA model it developed, the OCCI standard it helped drive, and were walked through the application of SLA@SOI in our Enterprise IT use case.

The Dependable Cloud at Research@Intel Day 2011, featuring SLA@SOI

Partnerships with other open cloud-related projects were also explained, and it proved a very useful event for identifying further opportunities for collaboration.

A busy but stimulating two days. For more information on the event including videos and press material please see http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/06/researchintel_2011.php. The latest videos of the SLA@SOI Enterprise IT use case demo are also now available online.

Hosted by Custon, a Dutch company dedicated to performance on demand, and co-organised by SLA@SOI, it featured insightful presentations from and engaging discussions with large-scale industry (HP, SAP, Intel), consultants (Gartner), research (SLA@SOI, Contrail), SMEs (GPI, Sensible Cloud, 2E2, ING) and academia (Fontys).

At a key phase in the adoption of cloud, the conference explored the strategic relevance of cloud computing, customer needs, solutions and best practice. Future trends and priorities were also addressed.

For details of the agenda please see our dedicated conference page. All presentations are now available online here.

For more information, and to register, please see Events > The Dependable Cloud.

As well as OCCI, DCI-Fed (Distributed Computing Infrastructure – Federation) is a new, complementary initiative underway at OGF that also looks very interesting to SLA@SOI. We look forward to engaging with this effort and making any appropriate contributions in the coming months.

SLA@SOI Info Day Brussels, Sept 28th 2010

The information day featured interesting and complementary keynotes from Dr. Rainer Zimmermann, Head of the Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures Unit, Dr. Joachim Schaper, Vice President SAP Research EMEA, and Peter Matthews, Research Staff Member at CA Labs.

These keynotes were followed by a session dedicated to key innovations within the project, and included deep dives into the overall SLA management framework, the SLA model, SLA negotiation and SLA monitoring.

The afternoon session was dedicated to Industrial impact and adoption, and included a review of all four industrial use cases, demonstrating  successful application of the scientific project results. The flexibility of the general purpose SLA management framework in accommodating a variety of different scenarios was illustrated, and demos were presented.

Sincere thanks to all who took time out of their busy schedules to attend the event, and to those that tried to come but were thwarted by transport strikes. From conversations during the day, and from the questionnaire feedback, we were delighted to see that attendees found it a worthwhile event which met their information needs. We are taking the comments on board in our planning for the future, and look forward to follow-up conversations and activities.

For all those interested, the presentations are now available on our publications page.

The proceedings will be kicked-off at 9:30 by Dr. Wolfgang Theilmann, project coordinator, SAP, and the morning session will feature presentations by Dr. Joachim Schaper, Vice President EMEA Research, SAP; Dr. Rainer Zimmermann, Head of the Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures Unit, European Commission; and a key note from Peter Matthews, Research Staff Member at CA Labs. The SLA@SOI project and its framework architecture will then be introduced.

This first session will be followed by a deep dive into the generic SLA@SOI Management Framework, a session on Industrial Impact and Adoption, and finally a selection of demonstrations from our Industrial Use Cases.

Please see our dedicated Information Day page for more details including instructions on how to register your attendance… We hope to see you there!

Peter will specifically discuss “Defining service characteristics for the Cloud”. He will focus on a process for defining services characteristics enabling valid comparisons between cloud service “goodness”. This presentation will also share some of the current research results into measurement of characteristics and their use in the Service Measurement Index (SMI). More information regarding SMI can be found on http://cloudcommons.com.

The adhoc demonstrator is the first public demonstrator of the SLA@SOI framework integrated with a reference service-oriented application supporting the sales process in a retail chain.

For more information, click here.