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EU fund cloud computing security developments

Thursday 22 July 2010

Contrail logo

Contrail logo

The European Commission has awarded €900,000 in funding to STFC e-Science as part of a consortium of European organisations undertaking the CONTRAIL project to design, implement, evaluate and promote an open source system in which resources that belong to different operators are integrated into a single homogeneous Federated Cloud that users can access seamlessly.

The three year CONTRAIL project will start in October 2010, lead by INRIA from France with 10 other partners from Slovenia, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany and the UK including STFC e-Science and Constellation Technologies Ltd which is a spin-off company from STFC.

Contrail will leverage the open source XtreemOS system, developed in the successful XtreemOS European integrated project and which was designed for large scale dynamic infrastructures.

The main contribution of Contrail will be the development of an integrated approach to virtualization, offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), services for federating IaaS Clouds, and Platform as a Service (PaaS) on top of federated Clouds.

The main output of Contrail will consist of:

  • a collection of infrastructure services offering network, computation and storage as a service; services to federate IaaS Clouds;
  • a collection of PaaS services to support typical Cloud applications;
  • a collection of run-time environments providing elasticity, scalability and performance dependability to selected classes of applications; and
  • a collection of applications and use cases from the domains of e-business, e-science, telecommunication and media using and demonstrating the Contrail system.

The contribution of STFC e-Science to CONTRAIL will mainly be in designing the identity management, quality of service and security aspects of the virtual infrastructure.

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