Category: Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure for Tools as a Service (TaaS)
It is becoming more and more clear that Cloud computing is poised to become mainstream mechanism of providing IT infrastructure despite all the reservations whatsoever. More and more communities are being formed to leverage cloud computing technologies. One of such communities is model driven engineering and cloud computing (CloudMDE), who recently organized a workshop in…
NordiCloud: Nordic Symposium on Cloud Computing & Internet Technologies!
Given the increasing interest in exploring the opportunities that Cloud computing and “everything as a service” (software/platform/infrastructure/data as a service on the cloud) can offer to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of IT infrastructure in public as well as private sector, several initiatives are being taken to support R&D and commercial efforts in Nordic countries.…
Private Cloud with Open Source Software
A few months ago, I wrote a post on our efforts to build a private cloud infrastructure with open source. This was a very exciting and interesting undertaking mainly done through a project carried out one of my students, Zoran Pantić. After that post, there has been several requests for the relevant documents describing our…
Building a private cloud for an academic environment
While the perceived and real technical and soio-technical concerns about public cloud solutions may be discouraging many organizations from migrating and/or using public clouds, many organizations are resorting to solutions involving private and community clouds. The increasing trend of private clouds is also making inroads into academic circles where a large amount of data may…
Cloud Computing – Adoption Barriers
Organizations and practitioners are well aware, and largely convinced, of the claimed benefits of cloud computing, however, they are concerned about the general lack of knowledge about the potential uncertainties and risks involved in adopting cloud computing. This is one of the conclusions from the first phase of our research on cloud computing adoption barriers.…
Green Software Services
Given a significant amount of CO2 emission is caused by ICT, several efforts are geared towards making this sector more energy efficient – e.g., a huge amount of R&D resources are being allocated to make ICT systems and their use environmentally friendly, or so-called Green IT. Apart from a few exceptions, most of the resources…
An experience of migrating to clouds
With the increasing popularity of Cloud computing, an increasing organizations are pondering about their strategy to migrate their existing software intensive systems to cloud-enabled infrastructure. One of the key questions of any migration strategy will be what kinds software engineering methods, guidelines, and tools are available to support the migration process. While an increasing number…
International Networking Grant
I have just received a grant to support an International network of researchers from four countries: Denmark, China, Brazil, and Japan. This networking project, called ArchClouds: Architecting for Cloud-enabled software systems, is aimed at providing researchers from IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) Denmark, ICT, Chinese academic of Sciences Beijing, China, Wesada University of Japan, and…
Innovation in Cloud Computing
Following on my previous posts on cloud computing related initiatives at ITU and its academic and industry partners, a new development is that we have started the process of forming a consortium of Danish researchers and practitioners for innovation in cloud computing. This consortium will not only focus on building Danish organizations’ competencies in cloud…
Global Software Engineering Challenges for the Next Decade
This is the main theme of the next year’s one of the largest gatherings of academic and corporate researchers, and practitioners interested in Global Software Engineering (GSE) – I am referring to the sixth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) to be held in Helsinki, Finland. Now we are moving into the final…