[Isod-bof] TNC2011 BoF "Provisioning infrastructure services on-demand (ISOD): beyond Grids and Clouds"

[Yuri Demchenko]

Dear ISOD-RG members,

This is to announce the TNC2011 BoF
"Provisioning infrastructure services on-demand: beyond Grids and 
Clouds" (ISOD-BoF)
that will be held on Monday May 16th from 9:00-12:30.

The BoF's goal is to present to the TERENA community developments in the 
area of on-demand infrastructure services provisioning that are 
currently going on in a number of projects, standardisation bodies, in 
particular our ISOD-RG activity and other OGF groups, also other 
international initiatives.

Clouds are also positioned as on-demand services provisioning 
environment and discussion of the related activities on Cloud 
architecture and provisioning models development will also take place at 
the BoF.

BoF description is available at https://tnc2011.terena.org/core/event/6 
and appended below for your convenience.

Agenda drafting is in the final stage and will be posted soon.

Regards,

Yuri

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TNC2011 BoF - https://tnc2011.terena.org/core/event/6
9:00-12:30 Monday, May 16, 2011

Title:
"Provisioning infrastructure services on-demand: beyond Grids and Clouds"

Modern e-Science applications and high-technology industry regularly
deal with large volumes of data that must be stored, processed and
visualized. This requires dedicated high-speed network infrastructures,
which can be provisioned on-demand to support all potential application
scenarios.

Most Grid/Cloud usage scenarios for collaboration can benefit from
combined network and IT resources provisioning.  This notion of
provisioning an infrastructure on-demand not only improves performance,
but also can address such issues as application-centric manageability,
consistency of security services, and energy efficiency (which is
emerging as a forefront issue). The infrastructure on-demand
provisioning model requires that a number of services and resource
management systems interoperate at different stages within the whole
provisioning process. However, in current practice, different systems
and provisioning stages are not connected into a single unified
workflow what impedes the definition of a whole provisioning model.
This results in a set of inconsistent, disjoint services that then
require a significant amount of human intervention to manually
integrate them into a single cohesive service.

The problem of better supporting collaborative groups of people and
wider user communities at all layers of networking and applications
infrastructure remains unsolved. The BoF will try to look at future
developments and future technologies to solve this problem.

This BoF will provide a venue to discuss a wide spectrum of research
and technology problems in provisioning infrastructure services
on-demand, existing frameworks to support on-demand infrastructure
services provisioning, and new emerging business models for
infrastructure virtualisation, such as Cloud Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS). The BoF will host presentations from EU projects and
activities such as GEANT3, GEYSERS, NOVI, OGF ISOD Research Group and
facilitate information and experience dissemination and exchange  with
TERENA community.