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Hot off the press…

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Check out the latest issue of the Projects Journal for an article dedicated to the challenges that SLA@SOI is tackling, providing new service opportunities for consumers and providers alike. The article has been featured stand-alone and is also available online as part of the entire magazine issue.

SLA@SOI Information Day

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

SLA@SOI is excited to announce details of our first dedicated Information Day. To be held in Brussels EXPO, Place de Belgique 1, Brussels on September 28th, 2010 it is co-located with and complementary to ICT 2010. Further Information Day details are now available, and registration is open. Please let us know if you have any [...]

Using Cloud Standards for Interoperability of Cloud Frameworks

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

SLA@SOI and RESERVOIR have been actively collaborating together with the aim of investigating and pursuing the integration of their respective technologies as part of the NEXOF Reference Architecture initiative. One of the outputs of this work has been a technical report that details how cloud standards, such as OCCI, can be [...]

SLA@SOI comes to Valencia

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

SLA@SOI is delighted to announce its participation in the upcoming NESSI Projects Summit being held in Valencia, Spain, on April 12th and 13th. The project will also be represented in the Future Internet Assembly on April 14th, 15th and 16th. If you are attending any of these events in Valencia be sure to look us [...]

SLA@SOI participates in Ljubljana’s RealTime Webcamp

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

SLA@SOI was delighted to participate in the RealTime Webcamp held in Ljubljana on the 20th February 2010. Primož Hadalin from XLAB presented (in Slovene) how XMPP technologies have been used in our initial infrastructure monitoring implementations.  For this and other presentations please see our publications page.

Dynamic set-up of Monitoring Infrastructures for SLA Management

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Over the last few years, several approaches have been developed to support the monitoring of SLAs. Typically, these approaches collect events during service executions and use them to check whether the properties of service provision as specified in an SLA are satisfied. Such approaches provide state of the art mechanisms for performing the basic checks [...]

SLA@SOI Demo Video

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

In parallel with the industrial use-case planning and requirements gathering activities in the first phase of the project, technical partners explored some of the broad architectural and integration challenges with an adhoc demonstrator. The following video demonstrates some of the capabilities of the software they developed.

The software illustrated in this video is currently being modified [...]

Challenges in SLA Translation

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) represents an architectural shift for building business applications based on loosely coupled services. In a multi-layered SOA environment the exact conditions under which services are to be delivered can be formally specified by Service Level Agreements (SLAs). However, typical SLAs are just specified at the top-level and do not allow service providers [...]

More SLA@SOI results released

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

We are happy to announce that more of the outputs of year one of SLA@SOI are now publicly available.

2 SLA@SOI Paper Acceptances

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Well, Hui Li from SAP has been busy and successful on his work within SLA@SOI! Along with his co-authors they have had the following papers successfully accepted:

Hui Li, Giuliano Casale, Tariq Ellahi. SLA-Driven Planning and Optimization of Enterprise Applications. 1st joint ACM WOSP/SIPEW Intl. Conference on Performance Engineering, San Jose, CA USA, Jan 2010. With [...]