EIT ICT Labs

Innovation Areas

Computing in the Cloud

Provision of applications, massive data and infrastructures as services ubiquitously accessible from any device connected to the Internet

Cloud Computing will be at the heart of the future Internet; implementing the vision of computing and information processing as a utility. Clouds are currently hosted in data centres and provide an elastic set of resources that are used by software that is deployed and accessed as services. Clouds will also extend to exploit resources of devices at the edge of the network.

Eventually a service may be created, or content may be provided by a local device, by a network element or a hosting data centre. Cloud computing has advantages: economy of scale, frugality in energy consumption, elasticity - the ability to quickly and dynamically scale up and down in response to changes in load, the lack of any entry threshold, and the possibility to pay only for actual usage or “pay as you go”.

Lead: Prof. Seif Haridi, Sweden.

Trends in Cloud Computing

Continuing increase in information volumes in all societal sectors
Data intensive clouds to an increasing extent handle distributed real-time data collected via different sources
The emerging Internet of Things will dramatically change information systems as real-time analysis of real-time data becomes a common requirement
Decisions within companies and public authorities will become more and more dependent on awareness through these large amounts of data

Activities

Data-intensive Cloud Infrastructure

Distributed storage systems, querying and indexing
Mechanisms for elasticity and resource allocation of all types of resources including networking
Computational frameworks for data-intensive applications
Scalable analysis tools for big data
Data and platform security

Distributed Cloud Systems

Device and Peer-to-Peer assisted clouds
Integration of Information-Centric Networking and other cloud infrastructures
Integration of storage and compute resources in operator networks
Access network aspects of data centres

Benchmarking and Evaluation Tools

Common open repositories for benchmarking and evaluation

Cloud Applications and Services

Cloud application architectures
Cloud services and service composition
Marketplaces for data and software as a service
Software engineering for the Cloud

Expected Results

Computing in the Cloud gathers the best researchers in Europe in a community that is focused on system research with concrete demonstrators that are the basis of useable tools, open source, or cloud components to address the trends and challenges. These results will be exposed systematically to entrepreneurs and venture capital to create new business opportunities.

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