ACTIVITIES :: Future of the Internet :: European research
European research - FIA Projects
RESERVOIR
Abstract
Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers is a European Union
FP7 funded project that will enable massive scale deployment and management of
complex IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and
geographies. The project will provide a foundation for a service-based online
economy, where - using virtualization technologies - resources and services are
transparently provisioned and managed on an on-demand basis at competitive costs
with high quality of service.
Web 2.0 is rapidly taking hold, offering "the web as a platform". In parallel,
traditional client-server computing is starting to lose ground as a new paradigm
emerges - the Cloud Computing paradigm. Cloud Computing allows data centers to
operate more like the Internet by enabling computing across a distributed,
globally accessible fabric of resources, delivering service based on demand over
the web, reducing software complexity and costs, expediting time-to-market,
improving reliability and enhancing accessibility of consumers to government and
business services. Thus, Cloud Computing represents a true materialization of
Service-Oriented Computing's visionary promise. In RESERVOIR, we are developing
breakthrough system and service technologies that will serve as the
infrastructure for Cloud Computing. We aim to achieve this goal by creative
coupling of virtualization, grid computing, and business service management
techniques.
Duration:
February 2008 - January 2011
Total cost:
17.318 M
Programme:
FP7-ICT-2007-1 - Objective 1.2
Info Brochure / Fact Sheet
If you are interested in any of this information please inform
the coordinator Eliot Salant, IBM Haifa Research Lab
Email: salant @ il.ibm.com
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