Latest Blogs from Ignacio M. Llorente
By Ignacio M. Llorente  It has been more than two years since the European Commission published in January 2010 its pioneering report about the Future of Cloud Computing. A group of experts was established with the aim to evaluate the state-of-the-art and develop future research directions in cloud computing.... May. 9, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,141 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente The last version of the Roadmap on Distributed Computing Infrastructure for e-Science and Beyond in Europe was released last week by the SIENA initiative. The main open-source cloud computing projects, like OpenNebula, and standards bodies, like DMTF, OASIS, OGF, ETSI, and SNIA, have c... Feb. 27, 2012 01:00 AM EST Reads: 586 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  "Key Challenges in Cloud Computing to Enable Future Internet of Things" is the title of the talk about future Internet of Things that I gave today January 19th at The 4th EU-Japan Symposium on New Generation Networks and Future Internet. The talk provides an architectural view of Inter... Jan. 19, 2012 01:55 AM EST Reads: 1,451 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente The European Commission opened a consultation process in May 2011 to collect the opinions of individuals, businesses and public bodies across the continent, prior to the release of a European Cloud Computing Strategy in 2012. The online consultation closed in September, and the Commiss... Dec. 21, 2011 10:24 AM EST Reads: 230 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente Recently the ‘Canadian Cloud Best Practices Council‘ has been established as an educational forum for Canada's cloud computing thought leaders and consumer advocates. The Council aims to define a strategy for how Canada can become a leader in the emerging field of Cloud Computing, and ... Oct. 25, 2011 04:02 AM EDT Reads: 245 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  The adoption of cloud computing goes beyond cutting costs or transforming fixed costs into variable costs. Cloud is a powerful innovation and business transformation platform to increase productivity and competitiveness by supporting improved services and new business and service model... Oct. 14, 2011 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,675 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente Last Wednesday I had the pleasure to give a keynote about Challenges in Hybrid and Federated Cloud Computing at the first annual Cloud Day in Kista. The annual Cloud Days in Kista featured leading international and Swedish experts from industry and academia, who presented the cutting e... Sep. 18, 2011 04:22 AM EDT Reads: 462 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente The European Commission has published the results of the Workshop Towards a Cloud Computing Strategy for Europe: Matching Supply and Demand organized at the 1st Digital Agenda Assembly. The aim of the workshop was to identify the main elements of a European cloud strategy and the possi... Jul. 14, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 348 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente "Challenges in Hybrid and Federated Cloud Computing" is the title of the keynote about the future of cloud computing that I am giving tomorrow July 7th at HPCS2011 and on the 31th of August at ParCo2011. The keynote describes the different cloud federation scenarios, ranging from a fed... Jul. 5, 2011 12:28 PM EDT Reads: 419 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente Unleashing the Potential for Innovation of Cloud Computing is the title of the presentation that I will give in the workshop Towards a Cloud Computing Strategy for Europe: Matching Supply and Demand at the 1st Digital Agenda Assembly next Friday, June 17th. The aim of the workshop is t... Jun. 13, 2011 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 462 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  I am often asked about the steps to be taken and the issues to be considered for a successful migration to cloud computing. There is no magic formula to it, the specific steps will depend on your internal structure, industry and differentiation in the market. As general framework, I u... Jun. 8, 2011 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,860 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente I am writing this post to summarize the research challenges that, in my view, need to be tackled to realize the full potential of Cloud Computing. These are the open research issues on cloud computing that should be addressed to create better clouds and so to bridge the existing techno... May. 30, 2011 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 366 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente This is the third, and last (for the moment), report that I would like to recommend. It nicely complements the other two reports (The Future of Cloud Computing and Priorities to Advance Cloud Computing). SIENA European Roadmap on Grid and Cloud Standards for e-Science and Beyond addres... May. 23, 2011 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 446 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  Since 2007, when the term cloud computing came into popularity, we have a vision about the future of Grid and Cloud Computing as fully complementary technologies that will coexist and cooperate at different levels of abstraction in e-infrastructures. Pioneering blog posts like Grid and... May. 20, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,905 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  Since 2007, when the term cloud computing came into popularity, we have a vision about the future of Grid and Cloud Computing as fully complementary technologies that will coexist and cooperate at different levels of abstraction in e-infrastructures. Pioneering blog posts like Grid and... May. 19, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,157 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente In my last post, I recommended the European Commission report on The Future of Cloud Computing to people defining strategies, developing research lines or exploring market opportunities in Cloud Computing. This time I would like to share a new reading recommendation, the World Economic... May. 15, 2011 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 483 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente Last year, I participated in a group of experts to work on a report that outlines the future directions of Cloud Computing. This expert group on Cloud Computing was convened by the Information Society and Media, Software and Services Directorate-General of the European Commission. The ... May. 11, 2011 03:14 PM EDT Reads: 239 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  C12G/OpenNebula will participate in the panel about Cloud Computing Fostering Innovation of the workshop Towards a Cloud Computing Strategy for Europe: Matching Supply and Demand organized by the European Commission to help identify the main elements of a European Cloud Strategy. This ... May. 9, 2011 11:16 AM EDT Reads: 3,010 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente We look forward to your contributions to the Cloud Computing track at ServiceWave 2011, which will be held in Poznan on October 26th-28th. The aim of the track will be to discuss the potential of emerging techniques and technologies to contribute to a European Cloud Computing Strategy.... May. 5, 2011 04:14 PM EDT Reads: 205 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente The 1st Digital Agenda Assembly, which will be held in Brussels on June 16-17 2011, will include the workshop Towards a Cloud Computing Strategy for Europe: Matching Supply and Demand to help identify the main elements of a European Cloud Strategy and the possible need for public-polic... May. 5, 2011 05:04 AM EDT Reads: 143 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente I am starting this new blog as a medium to share observations, thoughts and opinions about Cloud Computing innovation, research, and strategy. In the recent years I have collaborated with a variety of IT companies, telecoms and governments in the definition of Cloud Computing research ... May. 1, 2011 12:24 PM EDT Reads: 179 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  The Internet of Services is a vision of the Internet of the Future where not only the software applications are available as a service on the Internet, such as the software itself, but also the tools to develop the software and the platform (servers, storage and communication) to run t... Feb. 7, 2011 08:15 AM EST Reads: 7,280 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  The OpenNebula project has just announced that OpenNebula 2.0.1 is available in the openSUSE repositories. This news follows a recent announcement of its availability in Debian and in Ubuntu. Feb. 4, 2011 07:30 PM EST Reads: 3,870 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  Ulrich Schwickerath, from the CERN IT-PES/PS Group, presented at ISC Cloud 2010 the last benchmarking results of CERN's OpenNebula cloud for batch processing. The batch computing farm makes a critical part of the CERN data centre. By making use of the new IaaS cloud, both the virtual m... Jan. 12, 2011 08:15 AM EST Reads: 3,611 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  The OpenNebula Project has published the top ten reasons for using OpenNebula to build a cloud infrastructure. These reasons reflect the design principles of OpenNebula as technology designed to address the requirements of business use cases from leading companies. This is the summari... Oct. 13, 2010 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,672 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  The OpenNebula Project has just announced that OpenNebula has been selected as cloud management tool for the EU's BonFIRE project. OpenNebula will provide this new strategic European project with a powerful technology to build and operate a multi-site cloud facility to support applicat... Sep. 9, 2010 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,734 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  It is said that one image says more than a thousand words. This image illustrates how OpenNebula emphasizes interoperability and portability, recognizing that their users have data-centers composed of different hardware and software components for security, virtualization, storage, an... Aug. 27, 2010 02:51 PM EDT Reads: 4,205 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  As part of its exploitation strategy, Telefónica I+D has decided to release as Open Source a number of components developed during its research on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds.
These components will be integrated in the Claudia Platform that will offer a Service Manag... Apr. 8, 2010 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,293 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  The OpenNebula open source project has just released a new web site. This is not only a new look for opennebula.org but a whole new site for the community, a new place to share resources, contribute developments and discuss about components and solutions around OpenNebula.
In the la... Feb. 25, 2010 10:45 AM EST Reads: 5,885 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  The OpenNebula team has just announced the availability of OpenNebula 1.4 Beta Hourglass (1.3.80).This is the first preview of next stable release of the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Manager. The new OpenNebula version incorporates bleeding edge technologies and innovations in man... Jul. 23, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,351 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente  The integration of two clans of computation, ‘grid’ and ‘cloud’ computing, is moving closer through collaboration between the projects Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) and Resources and Services Virtualisation without Barriers (RESERVOIR). Jul. 20, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,736 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente The deadlines for two new workshops on cloud computing are near. Those will allow exchanging ideas and results and discusing the research challenges in this emerging research field:
International Workshop on Cloud Computing (Cloud 2009), in conjunction with IEEE International Symposi... Feb. 4, 2009 04:52 AM EST Reads: 925 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente The fourth edition of the ESAC GRID Workshop has just finished. Like in previous editions, the agenda included presentations about the state-of-art in the main components to build a Grid infrastructure. Although this time our contributions have been mostly related to the OpenNebula VM... Feb. 4, 2009 04:52 AM EST Reads: 964 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente A couple of weeks ago I was invited to present my position on Research Challenges in Cloud Infarstructures in the panel "Beyond Amazon: Using and Offering Services in a Cloud” at Future Internet Assembly, Madrid 2008. The aim of the talk was to present key differentiators between the R... Feb. 4, 2009 04:52 AM EST Reads: 2,671 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal has just expanded its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem. The list includes the most active cloud players, which are driving the most Enterprise-relevant innovation. Cloud computing is an opportunity for organizations to i... Feb. 4, 2009 04:52 AM EST Reads: 1,061 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente The third edition of the International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing will be held in Barcelona in conjunction with ICAC 2009. This year cloud computing (as enabled by virtualization) is a particular focus. The paper submission deadline is February 20t... Feb. 4, 2009 04:52 AM EST Reads: 918 |
By Ignacio M. Llorente The Cloud Computing - Cloudscape Workshop was successfully held in Brussels on January 14th and 15th, 2009. The workshop aimed at exploring cloud computing and its impact on enterprise IT. The workshop included presentations and round table discussions about the state of the cloud comp... Feb. 4, 2009 04:52 AM EST Reads: 991 |
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and Executive MBA (IE Business School), is a Full Professor (Catedratico) in Computer Architecture and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Group at UCM, and Chief Executive Advisor and co-founder of the C12G Labs technology start-up. He held several appointments as independent IT expert for the European Commission and several companies and national governments; and consultant positions at ICASE NASA Langley and Sun Microsystems. Prof. Llorente is one of the pioneers and world's leading authorities on Cloud Computing. He has served on several Groups of Experts on Cloud Computing convened by international organizations, such as the European Commission and the World Economic Forum, and has contributed to several Cloud Computing panels and roadmaps. He is the Director of the OpenNebula Open-Source Project and participates in the main European projects in Cloud Computing. He founded and co-chaired the Open Grid Forum Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface. Prof. Llorente has given many keynotes and invited talks in the main international events in cloud computing, and has contributed to several cloud computing panels and roadmaps.
