PANEL 2
On the Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services:
A global view on the business priorities, opportunities, fundamental challenges, key enabling technologies and tools for cloud adoption and market uptake, especially in Europe.
- Wednesday, 25 June 2014, 14:45-16:15, Room Europa
Motivation and Background:
“The Cloud” business, cloud computing and cloud technologies are of very high interest in the public recognition of consumers being impacted as well as by corporations and institutions developing and providing cloud technologies and offerings. Also EU has identified this as one of the focus areas for research funding.
A lot of research and innovation efforts are currently placed in developing new computational, storage, data management and, especially, networking solutions to cope with the heterogeneity of interfaces and devices, energy efficiency, big data, federated clouds, and secure private and public multi-actor environments. On the other hand recent high profile security incidents and security breaches have shattered the public’s trust in service providers ensuring privacy and security of personal information and data.
This panel aims at discussing infrastructures, means and methods for high performance, adaptive cloud applications and services, beyond current capabilities, building upon telecoms and mobile infrastructures, as well as software applications and services.
Questions
- How to deploy and manage federated and decentralised cloud infrastructures?
- What does it require to enhance dynamic configuration, automated provisioning and orchestration of cloud services?
- Can clouds host new and critical services, beyond Web, emails, etc., such as mobile connectivity?
- How to increase trust, security and transparency of cloud infrastructures and services, including data integrity, localisation and confidentiality?
- Can cloud solve the compatibility and technology obsolescence problem for storing and retrieving data?
Participants
The panel is composed of (see CVs below):
- Chair: Dr. Johannes Prade (Principle Technologist, NSN, Germany)
- Dr. Linda Strick (eGovernement Cloud Computing Lab, Fraunhofer-Institut Fokus, Germany)
- Dr. Holger Macho (Director GTS Cloud Development, IBM, Germany)
- Diego Lopez (Head of Technology Exploration, Telefonica I+D, Spain)
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Johannes Prade has been active in the ICT field for more than 20 years. He is currently in the research division of Nokia Networks, where he researches on the various aspects of “network virtualization”, including its organizational and monetary impact. He represents Nokia Networks in an advisory group to the German government on topics related to machine-to-machine communication and on critical ICT infra structures. Since 2011 he has been active in the Asian Cloud Computing Association, helping to promote the adoption of cloud computing in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Linda Strick is more than 25 years with the Fraunhofer-Institute FOKUS in Berlin and works in the application domain of eGovernement.Her main areas of work are: telecommunications, Service Oriented Architectures and Cloud Computing with focus on security. She is in charge of the eGovernement Cloud Computing Lab at FOKUS, which pilots secure and interoperable cloud scenarios for the public sector usage. She has been working with national and international projects, in standardization organizations and published several papers, amongst other Cloud Computing for the public sector (2010). Since June 2013 she is coordinator for the Cloud for Europe project funded by the European Commission under its 7th Framework Programme.
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Holger Macho is Executive Director GTS Cloud Development in IBM. His worldwide development team focuses on implementing Standard Cloud Solutions, the Common Cloud Management Platform as base for IBMs Public Enterprise Cloud, the Shared Private Production Cloud (SCE+), the IBM Desktop Cloud solutions, as well as Cloud Industry Solutions and the Public Cloud HPC Center. He has a leading role in the world-wide roll-out of the IBM Cloud production centers, with development teams on 3 continents. Holger started as a developer and tester in the System 360 Operating System development, before holding positions in project management, SW pricing, infrastructure management and as STG and SWG development manager located in Germany, US and Canada. Holger was announced as IBM Executive in the Tivoli SWAT (SW Advanced Technology) Team that has the mission to introduce and integrate Tivoli products in large scale customer environments. Holger is customer advocate for a number of large IBM customers.
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Diego R. Lopez joined Telefonica I+D in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert on network middleware and services. He is currently in charge of the Technology Exploration activities within the GCTO Unit of Telefónica I+D. Before joining Telefónica he spent some years in the academic sector, dedicated to research on network service abstractions and the development of APIs based on them. During this period he was appointed as member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Infrastructures by the European Commission. Diego is currently focused on identifying and evaluating new opportunities in technologies applicable to network infrastructures, and the coordination of national and international collaboration activities. His current interests are related to network virtualization, infrastructural services, network mamagement, new network architectures, and network security. Diego is actively participating in the ETSI ISG on Network Function Virtualization (chairing its Technical Steering Committee), the ONF, and the IETF WGs connected to these activities. Apart from this, Diego is a more than acceptable iberian ham carver, and extremely fond of seeking and enjoying comics, wines, and cheeses.
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