SLA@SOI Information Day

- from Scientific Advances to Industrial Innovation

Being able to automatically negotiate your own personal service level agreement (SLA) across multiple providers, being able to automatically manage and optimise perhaps thousands of customers each with their own personalised SLA – welcome to the world that SLA@SOI is delivering on.

Service-orientation and cloud computing are two of the most compelling trends in IT today. We in SLA@SOI believe that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a key technology for transforming service and cloud offerings into tradeable goods. This EC-funded project has invested 2 years of in-depth research and analysis into the domain, developing a comprehensive architecture and reference implementation for SLA management, and evaluating the results in four complementary industrial use cases.

All interested parties are cordially invited to our information day where we will share and discuss our results to date. The event is designed to appeal to both scientific and industrial stakeholders, our morning session featuring scientific and technical aspects of SLA management and the afternoon session focusing on business and adoption interests. The event will be held in Brussels EXPO, Place de Belgique 1, Brussels on September 28th, 2010, and is co-located with and complementary to ICT 2010.

What can you expect to get out of this event?

  • understanding
    • the importance and value of SLAs and SLA management including a keynote from a leading industrial expert
    • the key research results and technologies that support SLA management including SLA modeling, SLA negotiation, SLA planning, SLA monitoring, and SLA-aware cloud management
  • practical experience
    • of the actual business value of SLAs in four industrial domains, namely business applications, enterprise IT, service aggregation, and eGovernment
    • demonstrations of effective SLA management in these four use-cases
  • opportunity to engage
    • get your questions answered, and meet-and-greet our individual researchers
    • learn how to benefit from and engage with us – adopting our results, collaborating bilaterally, and engaging through our open source initiative

Please check back here regularly for updates on the event.

Registration

Attendees are requested to register online by September 1, 2010, at http://sla-at-soi.research-events.com/registration.php. Registration is free-of-charge.

We look forward to seeing you there!