News and Events

Telecoms Cloud Services Summit, 22-23 April 2010, London

A group of experts is working on a report that outlines the future directions of Cloud Computing research. The findings of the final report of the group of experts and the orientations for future research in cloud computing will be presented and discussed on 26 January 2010, in Brussels. ...read more..

Cloudscape II, 22-23 February 2010, Brussels, Belgium

Cloudscape-II delivers important insights into the current and future cloud computing landscape in Europe with interoperability for innovation in commercial and research settings firmly mind ...read more..

EC: The Future of Cloud Computing, 26 January 2010, Brussels

A group of experts is working on a report that outlines the future directions of Cloud Computing research. The findings of the final report of the group of experts and the orientations for future research in cloud computing will be presented and discussed on 26 January 2010, in Brussels. ...read more..

European Grid Interoperability Goes Global

e-Researchers harnessing more compute and data resources can solve scientific problems more quickly. Interoperability could provide researchers with access to the combined resources of service providers from around the world.

In October this year, OMII-UK and the National Grid Service (NGS, UK) began work on a demonstrator to show that open standards adopted by different middleware platforms are the route to interoperability across service providers - potentially from around the world ...read more..

First ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC) 10-11 June 2010, Indianapolis

The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2010 (ACM SOCC 2010) is the first in a new series of symposia with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing. This series is co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD) and on Operating Systems (ACM SIGOPS). ACM SOCC will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD and ACM SOSP Conferences in alternate years, starting with ACM SIGMOD in 2010 ...read more..

Green-IT conferences website

A group of outstanding researchers has set up a new web page to make it easier for research community find updated information about the emerging conferences in Green Computing, the next wave in computing. The www.greenIT-conferences.org site, includes a list of research conferences focused on green computing and energy-aware computer and network technologies. The site has been designed to make it easier for researchers for find information (and follow with RSS feeds).

SecureCloud 2010, 16-17 March 2009, Barcelona, Spain

SecureCloud 2010 is a premier educational and networking event hosted by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA, three of the leading organizations shaping the future of Cloud Computing Security. It is the first event to focus specifically on state of the art practices to promote security, privacy and trust within cloud computing from technical, assurance and governance perspectives ...read more..

Closing Workshop of VL-eMedical Programme, 16 December 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Medical Diagnosis and Imaging (VL-eMedical) sub-programme of VL is holding a one-day workshop in conjunction with the Grid Forum Nederland as a closing activity. The Workshop features talks by project members, invited speakers, a panel discussion and a cocktail ...read more.

Distributed Management Task Force Announces Partnership with Cloud Security Alliance

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the organization bringing the IT industry together to co-operate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption, has announced that it will partner with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to promote standards for cloud security as part of the on-going work within the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator . The two groups will co-operate on best practices for managing security within the cloud. ..read more..

Future of Cloud Computing, 26 January 2010, Brussels, Belgium

The Workshop on the Future of Cloud Computing – Opportunities for European Cloud Computing beyond 2010 on 26 January 2010 presents the findings of a group of experts called upon to define the future directions of Cloud Computing research. ..read more..

New challenge to improve Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

A challenge to improve Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for structural biology In structural biology, the only technique available to predict the three dimensional structure of large complex molecules in solution, such as proteins and DNA, is Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The “eNMR” project has launched a new initiative aimed at catalyzing improvements in the techniques behind these predictions. In September’s Nature Methods the project issued an invitation to the entire biomolecular NMR community to participate in a large-scale test of modern computing algorithms. This community-wide “contest” will potentially improve efficiency, reproducibility and reliability of NMR structure determination. eNMR will be using the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) infrastructure to power their analysis. ..read more..

Grids, Clouds and Service Infrastructures, 1-3 December 2009, Sophia Antipolis, France

This two-day workshop will deliver valuable insights into the how grids, clouds and service infrastructures are being developed and deployed in Telecommunications through an impressive line-up of talks bringing together IT and Telco leaders, pioneers in grids and clouds, the European Commission and two leading standardisation bodies. ..read more..

Cloud Computing tops Gartner’s strategic technologies in 2010

Gartner forecasts that in 2010 strategic technologies will enable an agile, mobile, secure enterprise where early warning signs of failure are identified by advanced analytics and social media and emerging business trends forecast. Out of the 10 technologies spotlighted, cloud computing tops Gartner’s list, advising organizations to think about how to use cloud services, develop cloud-based applications and implement cloud computing environments ...read more..

Cloud Computing World, 9-11 November 2009, Millenium, Mayfair, London, UK

Cloud Computing World is a global conference spotlights the strategies and opportunities for cloud computing users and their technology partners. Industry leaders will deliver insight on how cloud computing has transformed their data centres and also guide attendees through each individual step involved in the planning and implementing stages so that this technology can be tailored to the needs of individual organisations ...read more

High performance at reasonable price - scaling out Oracle databases, 29 October 2009, Krakow, Poland

Processing bottlenecks caused by the exponential growth of data is well-known to most systems administrators, prompting the question as to whether this issue can be resolved without shelling out for more expensive and powerful hardware. The seminar, “high performance at reasonable price - scaling out Oracle databases ” on 29 October 2009 in Krakow, Poland, is aimed at IT leaders from large corporations and institutions with significant processing loads who want to enhance their infrastructure and gain economies of scale. ..read more

BEinGRID & IT-Tude sponsors of ICSOC – Service Wave 2009

7th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, 23-27 November 2009, Stockholm, Sweden

This year ICSOC and its European partner ServiceWave Conference series join forces for ICSOC/Service Wave 2009 , a world-leading forum and unique opportunity for academic researchers and industry practitioners to report on groundbreaking research work in service oriented computing ... read more ..

The Association for Computing Machinery Launches ACM Europe

On 8 October, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) highlighted its ACM Europe initiative aimed at recognizing and supporting European members and ACM activities in the region, during a special reception in Paris honouring achievements in European computer science ... read more ...

Vordelworld , 4-6 November 2009, Dublin, Ireland : SOA & Cloud Governance

Vordelworld is a three-day forum where attendees can learn about the key issues impacting their business when using Cloud and SOA infrastructure. This year the spotlight is on SOA and Cloud Governance with case studies from leading organizations, such as Amazon, Bank of America, BT, Burton Group, CA, Paypal, Pfizer, Reply, SOA Software, Three, the US Government and several leading European Telcos and Insurance companies. The forum is designed for business leaders and technology developers, including technologists from Global 2500 firms, leading System Integrators ..read more..

The 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudCom 2009), 1-4 December 2009, Beijing, China

Beijing provides the setting for the 1st International Conference on cloud computing, 1-4 December 2009. The conference aims to bring together researchers who work on cloud computing and related technologies. The conference main proceedings will be published in Springer as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EI and ISTP indexed) ... read more...

Grids and Health e-Science: Shaping the future of healthcare

EGEE09 Press release.

Grids for health and biomedical sectors of European research have featured strongly at EGEE09, 21-25 September in Barcelona, Spain. EGEE (Enabling Grids for EsciencE) has supported this research community, the second largest user group after physics research, since the project’s birth in 2004, helping many health projects access vital resources and expertise. EGEE09, the project’s final conference, spotlights the results of their work ...read more...

Biomedical Informatics without Borders: from Collaboration to Implementation, Wellcome Trust, London, UK , 10-11 September 2009.

This joint conference of the US National Cancer Institute & the UK National Cancer Research Institute Informatics Initiative, now in its 3rd year, showcases the close collaboration of the two programmes to develop interoperable tools and technologies and provide an update on their progress and current status. With both projects well into their implementation phase, the focus this year will be on sharing experiences, addressing obstacles and showing the way forward to facilitate biomedical research and deliver personalised cancer medicine. For more information visit: http://cancerinformatics.org.uk/nci-ncri2009conference/

OGF27/Summit 2009, 12-16 October, Banff, Canada

OGF 27 is co-locating with Summit 09: Partnerships in CI Development in Banff, Canada 12-16 October 2009. The week-long event brings together an international gathering of developers, suppliers, and users who push the capabilities of cloud computing, Web 2.0, advanced networks and other emerging cyber-infrastructure ...read more

5th International Workshop on Grid Computing for Complex Problems (GCCP2009), 26-28 October 2009, Bratislava, Slovakia

This international workshop targets researchers and practitioners from the arena of distributed computing, as well as participants of industrial IT projects. The Workshop revolves around complex problems in connection with distributed computing with a special emphasis on life sciences & bio-applications, earth sciences & environmental applications, research infrastructures, national and international grid projects, grid access and tutorials, as well as interoperability and resource utilization. For more information visit: http://conference.ui.sav.sk/gccp2009/

BEinGRID & EGEE-III Join Forces at EGEE'09 Business Workshop, 23 Sept 09

GEE’s Business Forum teams up with BEinGRID, Europe’s largest Integrated Project under FP6 for a one-day business track on Wednesday 23 September 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. The three sessions will showcase achievements from a business and technology transfer perspective and define the next steps as we move towards new frontiers in the arena of clouds and grids... read more

Survey: An SME perspective on cloud computing

ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency)is conducting a security risk assessment of cloud computing technologies aimed at giving advice to, among others, SMEs on the most important risks in adopting cloud computing technologies, as well as ways to address those risks. As part of this study, ENISA looks in detail at the perspective of SME end-users of cloud computing infrastructures and applications, either current users or those considering adoption. ..read more

GridwiseTech Database Speedup

GridwiseTech have released Effective Manager’s Guide: Database Speedup, a comprehensive analysis of the most efficient techniques and methods for speeding up data processing, described with reference to their potential business benefits. The Database Speedup white paper summarizes GridwiseTech’s six years of experience in dealing with application bottlenecks and scalability challenges for its clients. ..read more

IT-tude – User Experience Survey

The IT-tude survey is designed to ensure that the content and focus of the website serves the needs of the wider IT community with particular reference to clouds, grids, service-oriented architecture and virtualization, now and in the future. ..read more

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High Performance and Grid Computing in the Cloud

New Discussion Group on Enhancing Grid and HPC with Cloud Computing

The HPCcloud discussion group has been created in order to address the growing interest in High Performance Computing and Grid Computing in the Cloud. The purpose of this group is to present experiences and scenarios by individuals, organizations and projects to illustrate how Cloud computing can enhance the different types of distributed and high performance computing infrastructures in science and engineering. ..read more