Speaker
Prof.
Antonio Puliafito
(University of Messina)
Description
Business Grid promises the wide adoption of economic valuable Grid
services. Lot of effort is being spent by the research community as well as by companies that are interested in its adoption. The business component involves more stringent requirements in terms of security,
confidentiality, trust, guarantees etc. Moreover, by its nature a business process requires most of the times interactions with other business processes and therefore the Business Grid has to provide service composition. Also, regulations of B2B and B2C interactions have to be performed through SLAs which need a management system that deals with those contracts. Researchers are now focusing on those business aspects, trying to address some of the new arising challenges namely business models, pricing models and market economies. Also, some of the current Grid middlewares (Globus, Gria, Unicore, gLite) are including some of the mentioned aspects within their solutions.
This talk presents the strategy of the COMETA consortium in setting up a Grid-based business infrastructure to provide business services with guaranteed QoS for SME companies through a starting Grid infrastructure, provided by the Pi2S2 project, where a business layer on top of this Grid infrastructure has been created in order to provide business services with guaranteed quality. Being service demand in most cases unpredictable, the ability to scale the system with it can be a winning factor for SME companies, which normally have limited budget to spend compared to large enterprises.
It will also cover how this fits into other current market offerings and outline out how other middlewares are dealing with the aspects such as business models, pricing models and market economies.
