Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers
Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers is an 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.
Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers is an 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.
Key Technologies
The prime deliverables of the project will be a definition of the architecture and reference implementation built on open standards along with new technologies to provide a scalable, flexible and dependable framework for delivering services as utilities while federating diverse infrastructures. It is envisioned that these deliverables will serve the European community, as well as RESERVOIR partners and their customers, in the development of next generation data centers demonstrating quantified and significant improvements in service delivery productivity, quality, availability and cost.
Other key technologies being developed in RESERVOIR include:
In addition, RESERVOIR researchers will be cooperating with other European Union FP7 projects, and NESSI projects to promote the exchange of ideas and interoperability.
The prime deliverables of the project will be a definition of the architecture and reference implementation built on open standards along with new technologies to provide a scalable, flexible and dependable framework for delivering services as utilities while federating diverse infrastructures. It is envisioned that these deliverables will serve the European community, as well as RESERVOIR partners and their customers, in the development of next generation data centers demonstrating quantified and significant improvements in service delivery productivity, quality, availability and cost.
Other key technologies being developed in RESERVOIR include:
- The development of the technologies to enable the migration of both virtual machines and Virtual Java Service Containers across network and storage boundaries.
- Algorithms for the allocation of resources to conform to SLA (Service Level Agreement) requirements.
- The creation of a formal Service Definition Language to support service deployment and life cycle management across RESERVOIR sites.
- Security mechanisms for the safe deployment and relocation of virtual machines across physical machines, and RESERVOIR sites.
- The development of a business information model as well as business oriented payment and billing mechanisms to charge for resources used across one or more RESERVOIR sites.
- Testbed development to benchmark performance of actual industrial use cases in a RESERVOIR environment.
In addition, RESERVOIR researchers will be cooperating with other European Union FP7 projects, and NESSI projects to promote the exchange of ideas and interoperability.