Task T5. 3: The ENVISAGE Work Flow (Lead: FRH)
Task T5. 7: Business Models and Exploitation Strategy (Lead: ATB) The task estimates the business potential of ENVISAGE technologies, and in particular for joint exploitation. It addresses work package objective O5.8 and contributes to the overall objective O6 of ENVISAGE. This task aims at assessing the potential for a transfer of results from the ENVISAGE project to the partners as well as to other academic and industrial organizations that could gain technical, commercial, or research benefit from the project outcomes. The task will create exploitation plans describing how the individual partners envisage the commercial and academic exploitation of project results, and how the consortium as a whole sees the additional potential for joint exploitation. First, all partners will contribute from their different perspectives to an overall analysis of the exploitation opportunities for the ENVISAGE technologies, especially with respect to existing cloud platforms and standards in the market. This will be the starting point for • individual exploitation plans of the partners, and • assessing the potential for joint exploitation. The exploitation plans of the individual partners will be developed, based on the experiences with ENVISAGE technology that the partners have gained during the execution of the case studies. Based on these individual exploitation plans and the market analysis (D6.1), the task identifies the potential for joint exploitation and documents this potential in an overall ENVISAGE exploitation plan. For the joint exploitation plan, we will also take into account the feedback from partners outside the consortium which we reach through the dissemination and evaluation activities of WP5. The joint exploitation plan will consider the potential for commercialization of the ENVISAGE technologies and framework, as well as for follow-up RTD activities, by planning the activities needed to develop the RTD outcomes of ENVISAGE from prototypes into marketable products. Organization. This task will be led by ATB, who have considerable experience in identifying commercializable technologies through involvement in several start-ups and in assessment of technology for venture capital. All partners will contribute to the identification of exploitable items, both at the level of the individual partner and jointly at the level of the consortium. Relation to other work tasks and deliverables.
Task T5. 8: Standardization Efforts (Lead: ENG) This task will promote active contributions to developing and advancing standards in the area of ENVISAGE and addresses the work package objective O6.3 and the overall objective O6. Current lack of standardization poses a threat to the rapid growth of cloud computation, according to industry observers, especially with respect to interoperability and security. A number of standardization initiatives and in-progress standardization efforts address similar aspects of cloud computation, whereas other aspects are not yet addressed [165]: in particular, standards for virtualization are needed to make cloud providers interoperable by introducing common APIs for the interaction between virtual machines and different storage and network architectures. The Open Virtualization Format [166] is an emerging standard which enables the migration of virtual machines between clouds and is now recognized by ANSI and ISO. The Open Cloud Computing Interface [160] is similarly an emerging standard for management tasks such as deployment, scaling, and network monitoring. With respect to SLA, on-going efforts include OASIS’ Symptoms Automation Framework and SNIA’s Cloud Data Management Interface. An updated overview of standardization efforts is available as a Cloud Standards Wiki [69]. In ENVISAGE, we will mainly focus on standardization efforts on interoperability. Given the rapidly evolving standardization efforts in cloud computing, we plan to take advantage of the emerging standards on virtualization, and seek to contribute to efforts on quality of service and SLA. Standards in the area of ENVISAGE need to be monitored in order to identify those likely to be adopted and those for which a contribution from the project is expected. This task is devoted to identify and monitor the relevant standardization bodies and standardization initiatives, European and International. Examples are different WGs in OCCI, ETSI, OMG and W3C. Standards relevant for the project will be identified and project outcomes, as appropriate, will be presented to the standardization bodies. This will be operated by participating to the public events organized by these organization (e.g., the Plugfests organized jointly by XXXX, ETSI, OCCI) or by proposing dedicated presentations during the periodical meetings. As it can be challenging for STREP projects like ENVISAGE to directly impact standards, we plan to actively involve other projects and research groups in our ...
