Future Internet Assembly 2014

Athens, March 19th, 2014

Open Research and

Technology Challenges in
Cloud Computing
Ignacio M. Llorente
OpenNebula Project Director

OpenNebula Project. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

What is OpenNebula?
Simple but feature-rich, production-ready, customizable solution to build clouds!

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What is OpenNebula?
An Open Community Driven by Users!

Use

Develop

Give us feedback
Contribute experiences
Help support new users

Open-source Apache code

Transparent process
Public roadmap

BBC
Communicate
User groups
Cloud technology days
OpenNebulaConf
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Integrate
Add-ons catalog
Ecosystem directory
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What is OpenNebula?
From Research Project to Open-source Project for Enterprise!

Large-scale production
deployment: 16,000 VMs

Develop & innovate

Support the community
Collaborate

2005

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

5,000 downloads/
month
Research
Project

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What is OpenNebula?
EU Success Story in Cloud Computing Research and Innovation!
Flagship EU Project on
Cloud Computing Research

Innovative
Technology Spin-o

Business Platform

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Innovation Platform

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What is OpenNebula?
EU Success Story in Exploitation of FP7 Results!

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What is OpenNebula?
The Intersection between Industry, Standards and Research Projects!

Standards

Contribute to
standards

Adopt as innovation
platform or
interoperability tool

Projects

Requirements for
innovative functionality

Adopt
standards

Distribution
channel

Linux Distributions
Requirements
Feedback
Contributions

Adopt
open-source

Industry and Goverment

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Open Research and Technology Challenges?

Two Perspective to Explore Research and Technology Challenges!

Demand Side

Supply Side

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Open Research and Technology Challenges?

Demand Side: Applications, Provisioning, and Portability !

Applications
Big data and HPC on cloud
Autonomic and adaptive applications

Provisioning
Software Defined Data Centers (SDDCs)
Elasticity

Portability
Workload migration
Security certification

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Open Research and Technology Challenges?

Supply Side: Architecture, Provisioning, and Portability !

Architecture
Software Defined Networks (SDNs)
IPv6
Virtualization overhead
Networking SLAs
Scheduling
Fault tolerance

Federation
Federated cloud networking
Datacenter federation
Identity federation

Development
Open-source
Joint development
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Open Research and Technology Challenges?

More Information!

References
A Roadmap for Advanced Cloud Technologies under
H2020, Expert Group Report (http://
cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/docs/cloud-expertgroup/roadmap-dec2012-vfinal.pdf)

Key Challenges in Cloud Computing: Enabling the

Future Internet of Services, R. Moreno, R. Santiago e I.
M. Llorente (http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/ic/
2013/04/mic2013040018-abs.html)

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