Workshop on Market Implementation of Cloud Interoperability and Portability Research in IaaS and PaaS

IEEE CloudCom 2011 Workshop:

“Market Implementation of Cloud Interoperability and Portability Research in IaaS and PaaS”

Wednesday, November 30^th, 2011 at 14:30 - Athens

Organized by the Cloud4SOA Project

IEEE CloudCom 2011 website: http://2011.cloudcom.org/

Organized by the Cloud4SOA project, the “Market Implementation of Cloud Interoperability and Portability Research in IaaS and PaaS” workshop at the IEEE CloudCom 2011 conference highlighted these topics in a comparative discussion between researchers and commercial providers.

The workshop examined several of today’s interoperability and portability research efforts in the infrastructure and platform layers of the Cloud stack, and analyzed the feasibility of their implementation into market offerings. This balance between research and practicality brought together market perspectives from the IaaS and PaaS arena with commercial providers interacting with several European FP7 projects such as Mosaic, Optimis, Contrail, gSLM, e-Fiscal and Cloud4SOA.

Interoperability and portability are increasingly relevant needs in Cloud computing as it continues its rapid adoption through infrastructure and platform offerings.  For the user, these capabilities are key to counteract the risk of vendor lock-in, a primary barrier for user uptake.  On the provider side, complex scenarios in the IaaS layer such as Cloud brokerage, Cloud bursting, hybrid Clouds and multi-Cloud federation require provider-to-provider collaboration largely based on the interoperability of various infrastructures.  In addition, in the “year of the PaaS” (Gartner, March 2011), portability is of great importance, as applications developed in one platform’s ecosystem quickly become over-dependent on that particular platform’s future.

A workshop panel brought out several observations across interoperability-related priorities and outlook, download the summary for a look!