Expires
2014-04-23

Title
iCE-ent
partner search for ICT 7 on
– federated cloud computing, and
– dynamic configuration, automated provisioning and orchestration of cloud resources

Theme/ Activity/ Topic
ICT
ICT 7- 2014: Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services

Organization
University of Innsbruck

Country
Austria

Contact
http://www.ideal-ist.eu/ps-89317
Thomas Fahringer
tf@dps.uibk.ac.at
Phone: +435125076440
Fax: +435125072758

Description

Proposal Outline:
The main objective of this project is to create a ubiquitous repository technology that provides a universal backbone for IaaS virtual machine management operations. We will deploy a set of repositories that can receive functionally complete virtual machine images from users and transparently optimize them both regarding their size (so they are delivered faster through networks and across cloud boundaries) and their distribution (e.g. repositories should decide at which other repositories one needs replicas of a heavily requested image and at which time such an image is replicated).

Keywords:
dynamic configuration, automated provisioning and orchestration of cloud resources

PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT

Required skills and Expertise:
We are looking for a larger SME or industry partners that develop applications (with large user community) for Cloud infrastructures with the following requirements:

– Applications should be highly dynamic (i.e. with frequently changing resource requirements). For example, the applications should demand new virtual machines from the clouds within a few seconds (and preferably the application should also terminate some of their VMs with the same frequency).
– Companies must demonstrate good expertise in using virtual machines and creating virtual machine images
– Applications should be able to reside in multiple hosting environments (e.g. independent of particular IaaS platforms or allowing the use of cloud federations)
– Applications should be flexible enough to be composed of several virtual machines (thus allowing their sub components to dynamically scale depending on application level requirements)
– Applications should have great potential for scaling up/down and migrate according to the variable load generated by users or other external factors, and available resources.

The application should already exist and a larger user community should use it. Ideally revenue and market share can already be shown based on a real business plan. The application either already runs on a Cloud or has good potential to be ported to the Cloud. The application can also involve mobile devices with some off-loading of
computational or data load to the cloud.

Description of work to be carried out by the partner(s) sought:
The company has to participate in
– WP1 requirements and overal project design
– WP6 dissemination and exploitation

The company should lead WP5 on integration, testing and use case development.
Port one existing application on top of the planned middleware developed by the project. Small parts of the application can be developed new but overall we assume that the application already exists. The main effort should involve to port the application to the cloud or a federation of cloud with the help of a new cloud middleware.
In this WP the horizontal layers of the overall research software has to be integrated and tested. Several applications will be ported to the cloud as part of this WP and used to test whether project objectives have been achieved.

Type of partner(s) sought:
We are looking for at least medium-sized but preferably large companies that develop cloud applications for end-users. Cloud applications should have already a large user-community.

We are NOT looking for cloud middleware developers or cloud infrastructure providers or software developers that enable applications.

Looking for a Coordinator for your proposal:
No