Roadmap for a Swiss Academic Open Cloud Infrastructure,  Sergio Maffioletti (Open Cloud Day 2013)
Channel: CH Open
Date: 2013-08-10

Roadmap for a Swiss Academic Open Cloud Infrastructure 
Sergio Maffioletti
Grid Computing Competence CenterUni ZH 


This talk presents the SwiNG roadmap for promoting the adoption of Open Cloud infrastructure for supporting scientific computing research on a Swiss-wide academic scale. The goal is to standardize the support for computational research based on Open Cloud technologies.
When we imagine a Swiss cloud infrastructure based on the contribution from different academic partners, one has to plan a coordinated operational infrastructure that guarantees the common usability of the various cloud services.
A federated identify system that would allow uniform authentication and authorization, standardized accounting report, real-time monitoring, global appliance catalog, are just few examples of what an operational infrastructure needs to provide.


Sergio Maffioletti (sergio.maffioletti@gc3.uzh.ch) is the project director of the Grid Computing Competence Center at the University of Zurich. He is also the Swiss Academic Compute Cloud (SwissACC) project leader. Since 2004 he has been involved in several grid and cloud related projects with both national (SwissBioGrid, ISS) and international (WLCG, EGEE, EGI) scope. Currently, he also serves on the Executive Board of the Swiss National Grid Association (SwiNG).




Open Cloud Day 2013

Cloud Computing gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung und Gewicht. Damit die 
gesamten Möglichkeiten ausgeschöpft werden können, sollten Clouds nach
den Prinzipen der Open Cloud Initiatve aufgebaut werden.
Das Ziel des Anlasses ist es offene Clouds und die Interoperabilität von Clouds
zu verbessern. Speziell werden die Anforderungen der öffentlichen Verwaltung sowie 
von KMUs berücksichtigt. In speziellen Vorträgen wird der Bereich GovCloud vertieft.
Der Anlass legt gewicht auf konkrete, praxisnahe Beispiele. 
Die Konferenz baut auf dem erfolgreichen Open Cloud Day von 2012 auf.