Speaker
Shimon Agassi
(IBM - Haifa)
Description
Cloud Computing, evolved from Grid Computing, is a hot buzzword in today's ICT world, and has various facets from different points of views. We will briefly look at current commercial efforts in the Cloud world, and understand the benefits that Cloud Computing can offer today. We will then try looking down the road to see what will really be required from Cloud as the ICT world moves to Web 2.0 and beyond. Finally, we will discuss the vision and objectives of the RESERVOIR research project, which is a three-year project being funded by the European Union FP7 initiative, aiming to create the infrastructure for the next generation cloud.
