SLA@SOI is happy to announce the public availability of the book “Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing“, published by Springer. Based on the results of the project, the book provides a comprehensive insight into SLA management for clouds, both from a business and a technical perspective. In particular the book features chapters on general business motivation, [...]
A significant milestone towards a Dependable Service Economy has been reached with the final publication of results of the recently concluded SLA@SOI research project. Launched in June 2008, this European Commission funded project has been researching, developing and proving tools and techniques that can embed SLA-aware infrastructures into the service economy.
In recent days a suite of 11 new videos has been uploaded to the SLA@SOI YouTube channel. They cover key topics spanning the SLA@SOI Studio, SLA@SOI Monitoring, the Open Reference Demonstrator and the Enterprise IT Use-Case. If you haven’t seen them yet, check them out…
The 30th floor of the World Trade Centre in the new city of Almere, The Netherlands, was the venue for a highly informative conference focused on the Dependable Cloud. 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 [...]
A dedicated Cloud Computing Use Cases group has recently published a paper entitled “Moving to the Cloud”. Including SLA@SOI insights contributed by our Enterprise IT lead Mike Nolan, the document covers the risks and rewards of moving applications and data to the cloud…
Congratulations to the Open Cloud Computing Interface working group which has just had two of its standards published by the Open Grid Forum as Proposed Recommendations. The OCCI working group is co-chaired by Andy Edmonds, an SLA@SOI researcher focused on Infrastructure Management, and has benefited from the extensive open research carried out in SLA@SOI on existing infrastructure models and interfaces. SLA@SOI looks forward to seeing this standard develop from strength to strength.
The barriers to cloud adoption are heavily documented across the internet. In this blog post, we examine some of the main solutions put forward by the SLA@SOI consortium in addressing the issue of data security…
SLA@SOI is delighted to announce that following several months of preparation a conference dedicated to the Dependable Cloud will be held this April 28th in Almere, The Netherlands. For more information, and to register, please see Events > The Dependable Cloud.
Several of the SLA@SOI Use Cases now have videos available. They can be viewed from the dedicated Use Case pages under Research > Focus Areas, and they are also being published on our new SLA@SOI YouTube Channel.
The SLA@SOI reference architecture for an integrated SLA management framework has been published in the Journal of Internet Engineering. The full article “A Reference Architecture for Multi-Level SLA Management” can be downloaded here.
