Description
This session is all about the sea-change surrounding cloud computing, investigating the benefits and challenges related to this emerging technology. Talks look at how cloud fits into the big picture and what cloud and grids can teach each other. One of the talks centres on EGEEโs investigation into clouds and grids with a comparison between lowest common denominator components and higher-level services.
Following this theme, we will see how by being able to dynamically scale computation and storage power and paying only for what it used will change the marketplace as we know it. IGT, who will be holding the World Summit of Cloud Computing in Dec, offers an inside look at scientific and technical computing, into a business-innovating technology that is driving increased commercial adoption.
A new EGEE Business Associate and STFC spin-out, Constellation Technologies, provides a cloud computing service to businesses using EGEEโs gLite. The talk will show how its SuperCloud infrastructure allows users to access different re source providers to offer higher-level services, as well as a global marketplace for various service providers, such as media, finance, and engineering.
Training opportunities will also be presented for any company that wishes to get a hands-on experience using this technology.
Discussions do not stop here as the next session continues with the future direction of virtualization, including clouds.
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Marc-Elian Bรฉgin (Sixยฒ)22/09/2008, 16:00In this talk, Marc-Elian Bรฉgin, partner at Sixยฒ, will briefly present the state-of-the-art in grid and cloud computing, with concrete examples like EGEE for grid and Amazon for cloud. He will then compare the two, focusing on opportunities cloud computing brings both to academia, with projects like EGEE, and to industry. He will end with a concrete example to illustrate opportunities cloud...Go to contribution page
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Avner Algom (IGT)22/09/2008, 16:20Over the last few years we have seen grid computing evolve from a niche technology associated with scientific and technical computing, into a business-innovating technology that is driving increased commercial adoption. Grid deployments accelerate application performance, improve productivity and collaboration, and optimize the resiliency of the IT infrastructure. Today, the maturity of...Go to contribution page
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Nick Trigg (Constellation Technologies)22/09/2008, 16:40Constellation is providing a cloud computing service to commercial companies using gLite. Providing higher level added value services to companies allowing them to access the power of the cloud on the net (the SuperCloud). Constellation is bringing the power of the cloud to all commercial sectors. The talk will include a description of some of the commercial project Constellation on which it...Go to contribution page
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Stephen Adams (Linalis)22/09/2008, 17:00Linalis is an Open Source consulting, services and training company. The company focuses on open standards, web applications and network administration. Based in Switzerland and making IT happen since 2002. As a newly appointed EGEE Business Associate, Linalis is now able to provide training to companies and individuals looking to leverage the power of the grid using gLite in their...Go to contribution page