News and Events

Cloudscape IV - Advances in Interoperability and Cloud Computing Standards

23-24 February, 2012,
European Commission premises - Avenue de Beaulieu BU, 25, Brussels, Belgium

Cloudscape IV focuses strongly on interoperability and portability issues with the involvement of key Standard Development Organizations as part of a call for action to strengthen international cooperation to address global challenges. Cloudscape IV also shines the spotlight on the reusable assets of European Distributed Computing Infrastructures and the need to foster synergies beyond the typical research infrastructure landscape. The event also sees the launch of the SIENA European Roadmap on Grid and Cloud Standards for e-Science and Beyond.

The two-day agenda also features a keynote from Mario Campolargo, Director DG INFSO Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, European Commission, insights from all major stakeholders, including eResearch, industry and eGovernment communities and interactive roundtable debates on the burning issues with valuable networking opportunities, making Cloudscape IV a key event on the cloud computing calendar.

Atos leads the OPTIMIS project for the optimisation of services in Cloud

Press Release:

The project, promoted by the European Commission, is committed to the 'hybrid cloud' with an investment of 10.5 million euros over three years.

The objective is to optimise the life cycle of the services offered by a Cloud, covering everything from the development of the services to their deployment and operation, and to create a full toolkit which will be available to companies and organisations.

ALERT Newsletter - September 2011

ALERT aims to improve the process of bug resolution on collaborative Open Source projects. Their autumn-issue newsletter has just been released!Download it here!

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Cloud4SOA’s interoperability workshop at CloudCom2011

UPDATE - Workshop agenda for Nov.30th now available, see Cloud4SOA’s site below for more details!

Cloud4SOA is organizing a workshop for this year's CloudCom (http://2011.cloudcom.org/), taking place in Athens this November 29th to December 1st!

Titled "Market Implementation of Cloud Interoperability and Portability Research in IaaS and PaaS", the workshop aims to examine today's interoperability and portability research efforts in the infrastructure and platform layers, and analyze the feasibility of their implementation into market viable solutions. The cloud industry is going at full speed, so let's see how these innovative ideas targeted at one of cloud computing's larger barriers matches up to the market's expectations.

We've set up a page on our website for the workshop that will be updated regularly as we approach the event's dates this fall. For the meantime, we've published our workshop Call for Papers in conjunction with CloudCom, and look forward to your participation!

http://www.cloud4soa.eu/workshop2011

What's Next on IT-tude.com

IT-tude is re-launching this fall/winter with an upgraded site to better link organizations, projects and content, presenting new opportunities for those participating in European ICT research and industry. Same name, same address, new web... we're looking forward to sharing it with you!

IEEE CloudCom 2011

29 November 2011 - 1 December 2011 - Athens, Greece

The “Cloud” is a natural evolution of distributed computing and of the widespread adaption of virtualization and SOA. In Cloud Computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. The IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, steered by the Cloud Computing Association, aim to bring together researchers who work on cloud computing and related technologies.

http://2011.cloudcom.org/

eChallenges 2011

26-28 October 2011 - Florence, Italy

The eChallenges e-2011 Conference takes place in the beautiful city of Florence, Italy. This is the twenty-first in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission and hosted by national governments, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt, good practice and innovation.

eChallenges provides a prestigious, international forum to share success stories and lessons learnt from applied Information and Communications Technology (ICT) related research at European level (FP6 & FP7) as well as Regional, National and Commercial initiatives. International cooperation and discussion of commercialisation, exploitation & interoperability issues are key aspects of the programme.

The goals of e-2011 are to promote ICT knowledge sharing and innovation between commercial organisations, government agencies and the research community, exhange experiences about the current state of eAdoption at a sectoral, national or regional level and stimulate rapid take-up of Research and Technology Development (RTD) results by industry and in particular SMEs

http://www.echallenges.org/e2011/

Internet of Services: FP7 Projects Collaboration meeting

(28-29 September 2011 - Brussels)

All representatives of FP7 Call 1 and Call 5 projects in the area of Software & Services are invited to participate. Also welcome are representatives from other research projects notably from NESSI or the Future Internet Assembly who wish to collaborate with the Software & Services projects.

The meeting has the following objectives: To consolidate the collaboration activities among the projects in order to build an even stronger community; to give the opportunity to understand key results of the projects/collaboration working groups in order to facilitate reuse of these results and to better exploit their results by finding synergies with the other projects; and to achieve a better understanding of the results of the FP7 projects in the “Internet of Services” area. As well, in view of the next "Horizon 2020" Framework Programme for research, which will start in 2014, this meeting has also the objective to collect ideas and understand the needs of the "Software and Services" research community, in order to advice the European Commission in the drafting of "Horizon 2020".

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ssai/ios2011/index_en.htm

ISC Cloud '11

26-27 September 011 - Mannheim, Germany

ISC Cloud'11 will focus on compute and data intensive applications, their resource needs in the cloud, and strategies on implementing and deploying cloud infrastructures.

It will address members of the HPC community, especially decision makers in small, medium, and large enterprises and in research (CEOs, CTOs, IT leaders, project managers, senior scientists etc.). Speakers will be world-renowned experts in the field of HPC and cloud computing. They will present solutions, guidelines, case studies, success stories, lessons learned and recommendations.

http://www.isc-events.com/cloud11/

ICS '11 - The HPC Event

19-23 June 2011 - Hamburg, Germany

The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is a key global conference and exhibition for high performance computing, networking and storage.

Now in its 26th year, ISC’11 will once again reunite over 2,000 like minded HPC researchers, technology leaders, scientists and IT-decision makers. A world-class exhibition on supercomputing, storage and networking vendors also awaits our visitors.

http://www.supercomp.de/isc11/

Cloud Computing World Forum 2011

21-22 June 2011 - Olympia, London

Taking place on the 21st - 22nd June 2011, the 3rd Annual Cloud Computing World Forum is a free-to-attend event featuring all of the key players within the Cloud Computing and SaaS markets, and providing an introduction, discussion and insight into the future of the ICT industry.

Building on the success of the 2010 show, this two day conference will provide the most complete and comprehensive platform for the global Cloud Computing and SaaS industry.

http://www.cloudwf.com/

SESERV Workshop: Building the Future Internet: The Social Nature of Technical Choices

28 June 2011 - Oxford, UK

A workshop and seminar entitled "Building the Future Internet: The Social Nature of Technical Choices". During this workshop and seminar, which will be held on June 28 from 10:00 to 16:00, experts in FI technology will be engaging with researchers such as social scientists and economists, with policy experts, and with other stakeholders to discuss how the latest technology developments are encountering socio-economic realities. Particular attention will be given to the methods and approaches that facilitate the creation of multidisciplinary networks of collaboration and knowledge exchange. The specific topics will be announced soon, and will be based on the results of the SESERV survey currently being circulated to FI projects about socio-economic issues relevant to the realities on-the-ground in the FI community.

Click here for further information

eChallenges e-2011 Conference

26-28 October 2011 - Florence, Italy

eChallenges provides a prestigious, international forum to share success stories and lessons learnt from applied Information and Communications Technology (ICT) related research at European level (FP6 & FP7) as well as Regional, National and Commercial initiatives. International cooperation and discussion of commercialisation, exploitation & interoperability issues are key aspects of the programme.

The goals of e-2011 are to promote ICT knowledge sharing and innovation between commercial organisations, government agencies and the research community, exhange experiences about the current state of eAdoption at a sectoral, national or regional level and stimulate rapid take-up of Research and Technology Development (RTD) results by industry and in particular SMEs

http://www.echallenges.org/e2011/

Future Internet Conference Week

18-19 December 2011 - Budapest, Hungary

In order to develop a comprehensive approach to the digital society and economy not only governments, but also industries and research communities need to join forces and interact to ensure maximum cross-fertilization.

The European Future Internet Assembly also known as FIA, is a collaboration between projects that have recognised the need to strengthen European activities on the Future Internet to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace.

FIA is open to all researchers engaged in Future Internet research (be they at EU or not) to contribute and participate towards FIA's goals.

Be sure to visit their site for more information and an up-to-date program!

http://www.fi-budapest.eu/

ALERT Newsletter - April 2011

ALERT is a new project that aims to improve the process of bug resolution on collaborative Open Source projects. Their first newsletter has just been released!

Download it here!

Publication of QualiPSo project final results: a promising path in the adoption of FLOSS, to continue!

The Qualipso project (FP6-ICT-Obj 1.2) is about to finalize and they would like to share with you the achieved results after the four years of work.You may visit at our web site (www.qualipso.org) for more details on the major assets:

BonFIRE Open-Call for Experiments on multi-site Cloud facility

The BonFIRE project is offering up to 200K funding contribution (total 1,34 M Euro) for innovative service and network experiments that use the BonFIRE facility. The aim is to stimulate demand and establish a methodology of experimentally driven research. The funding will be allocated through a series of open calls. The first open call is NOW OPEN and will close on 9 March 2011, targeting the Internet of Services and Future Networks research communities.

Why not start considering how BonFIRE can support your RTD plans today? Do you have good research results but need to consider wider performance, scalability and security characteristics to achieve exploitation potential? Do you have novel early prototype component implementations that needs exploration and observation before integration into larger Future Internet systems?

For more information, you can read more about BonFIRE’s Open-Call at their website...

BonFIRE Project Website

Cloud Slam ‘11

18-22 April 2011 - online virtual conference

The 3rd Annual Virtual Conference on Cloud Computing will be hosted online from April 18 - 22, 2011.
It is global event, covering latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing.
Conference panels, workshops, and tutorials are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud computing.

Datacentre Transformation Summit

12 April 2011 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

That's part of what the Tier1 Research Datacentre Transformation Summit addresses. Whether it's deciding between buying, building or leasing, or how to plan for your next upgrade, refresh or datacentre expansion or consolidation, the serious discussion commences here. Tier1 Research analysts will guide the dialogue and provide in-depth market analysis on these topics.

http://dtsummit.com/eu/amsterdam/2011

Cloudscape III

15-16 March 2011 - Brussels, Belgium

Cloud computing may become the backbone of our digital future both in Europe and beyond however, there are many challenges and barriers ahead to achieve this.An EU-wide strategy by 2011 on Cloud computing which identifies and overcomes legal, technical and institutional barriers for government and science has been targeted by the EC Digital Agenda.

Cloud Communications Summit, 2011

2-4 February 2011 - Miami, USA

The Cloud Communications Summit will address a growing need of businesses to integrate and leverage cloud based communications applications, process enhancement techniques, and network based communications interfaces and architectures.

http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/cloud-communications/2011/East/

Future Internet Conference Week

13-17 December 2010 - Ghent, Belgium

The “Future Internet Conference Week” will therefore offer a program of back-to-back conferences, meetings and workshops related to the different topics of interest to the organizations involved and their stakeholders. Included will be ServiceWave 2010, FIRE Conference, Living Labs and Smart Cities, iMind2010 and the Future Internet Assembly.

Be sure to visit their site for more information and an up-to-date program!

www.fi-week.eu

ServiceWave 2010

13-15 December - Ghent, Belgium

The ServiceWave conference series is a unique opportunity for academic researchers and industry practitioners to report on ground breaking research work and present industrial trends, strengthening the cross-community excellence in service oriented computing related domains. It is a place for place for sharing knowledge and networking between experts working on the Service Revolution in Europe today.

Workshop Annoucement:
Competing Globally in a Regional World: Information Business Growth and Competitiveness in the Asia Pacific Region

15-16 November 2010, Bangkok / Worldwide via VC

This workshop will review successful information services business models, and use these to structure discussions that:

- explore what determines business growth/competitiveness in a global economy for businesses in East Asia
- develop business scenarios suggested by participants
- test these scenarios by following-up with individual groups after the workshop

Free Training courses on FLOSS

Would you like to learn more about Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)? QualiSPo training courses may help you on that. Be sure to visit the FLOSS Training page at and enjoy with their free courses.

http://www.qualipso.org/node/172

Cloud4SOA Project Launch

18 October 2010, Barcelona

The Cloud4SOA project (an IT-tude.com Associate contributor) announces the launch of a 3-year collaborative effort to resolve the semantic interoperability issues that exist in current Clouds platforms and on introducing a user-centric approach for applications which are built upon and deployed using Cloud resources.

Download their press release here!

ERCIM Newsletter on Cloud projects in Europe

ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) has released a special issue of their newsletter focussed on Cloud Computing projects in Europe.

You can download the full newsletter here.

BonFIRE Newsletter - September 2010

BonFIRE, the new initiative on Future Internet Research and Experimentation, has released its first newsletter!

Download it here!

NEXOF Roadmap released for feedback

NEXOF-RA aims to build the Reference Architecture for the NESSI Open Service Framework (NEXOF) leveraging research in the area of service-based systems, and to consolidate and trigger innovation in service-oriented economies. In this context, the project has defined the NEXOF Roadmap in order to identify the major research topics in relation to NEXOF evolution. In order to achieve a broad consensus the project invites not only the Services Research Community, but also all interested individuals and organizations to participate in this public consultation.