“From GRID research to GRID business” Francesco Giglio

Turning Client Vision into Results 2 Content of the presentation Atos Origin Overview and GRID positioning ATOS ORIGIN strategy from GRID research to GRID business –Short term –Mid term –Long term A feasibility study

Turning Client Vision into Results 3 Who is ATOS ORIGIN? An IT International Player A leading international IT services company providing: Business consulting (10%), Technology integration (40%) Managed operations (50%) Annual revenues over € 5 bn 50,000 employees In 50 countries Global Presence Strong European Base 2% 4% Germany +CE 6% UK 18% France 28% France 28% Benelux 19% UK 18% Germany + CE 6% AP 4% Americas 9% Italy 7% Other EMEA 5% Spain 4%

Turning Client Vision into Results 4 Consultancy/ System Integrator End Users ATOS ORIGIN in the Chain Provision for the IT Market Service Provider Solution Provider Software Provider Acces Provider Resource Provider European Research & Technology Centres

Turning Client Vision into Results 5 ATOS ORIGIN Vision Grid: in a critical phase in its transition from research to business It is time to push the Grid technology into innovative business models AtosOrigin is a founder member of NESSI initiative

Turning Client Vision into Results 6 Meaning of GRID for industry?

Turning Client Vision into Results 7 Adoption Lifecycle for New Technologies Step1: Awareness and Understanding Step 2: Appreciation of Benefits Step 4: Return of Investment Step 3: Commitment and Use

Turning Client Vision into Results 8 The Chasm Initial Market Main Street The tornado The Bowling Alley Niche Marketing Innovators Early Adopters (visionaries) Early Majority (pragmatics) Late Majority (conservatives) Laggards (skeptics) Grid Technology Adoption Life-cycle Grid Science Computing Next Generation Grid Enterprise Applications Service Oriented Utility for the Knowledge Economy Grid Enterprise Infrastructure (on-demand)

Turning Client Vision into Results 9 Content of the presentation Atos Origin Overview and GRID positioning ATOS ORIGIN strategy from GRID research to GRID business –Short term –Mid term –Long term A feasibility study

Turning Client Vision into Results 10 ATOS ORIGIN Strategy The Chasm Initial Market Main Street The tornado The Bowling Alley Niche Marketing Innovators Early Adopters (visionaries) Early Majority (pragmatics) Late Majority (conservatives) Laggards (skeptics) Next Generation Grid Enterprise Applications Service Oriented Utility for the Knowledge Economy Grid Enterprise Infrastructure (on-demand) SHORT TERM (TODAY) MID TERM (2-5 Years) LONG TERM (5-10 Years)

Turning Client Vision into Results 11 GRID Enterprise Infrastructure on-demand (SHORT TERM) Customer by customer = on-demand Multiple customers = utility According to Gartner:  No one currently doing true utility computing!  Today’s implementations are “on- demand” Solutions for the customer that :  Require no capital investment  Reliable  Responsive  Deliver Recognizable Value ATOS ORIGIN Managed Operations is developing a Service Strategy to support this model Current StateDesired State on-demand From on-demand to Utility computing

Turning Client Vision into Results 12 Main ATOS EU Research projects (Grid influence) GRASPAKOGRIMO eLeGITRUSTCOMCROSSWORKCONTENT4ALL F2 Unit FP5FP6 LEGE-WG E3 Unit D5 Unit Technology-enhanced Learning; Cultural Heritage Grid Technologies ICT for Business Knowledge management and content creation E2 Unit Next Generation Grid Enterprise Applications (MID-TERM)

Turning Client Vision into Results 13 Service Oriented Utility for the Knowledge Economy (LONG TERM) Lisbon Agenda: “to make Europe the world’s most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010 ” Drive the transformation of the European industry towards a knowledge-based economy Revenues shift from sales of products to provision of on demand services Need of European businesses: Effective use of ICT NESSI Technology Platform

Turning Client Vision into Results 14 Service Oriented Utility for the Knowledge Economy (Key themes) Business Flexibility end-to-end enterprise business processes that can respond to any customer demand, market opportunity or external threat ICT Simplification standards-based services, virtualization of ICT provisioning Open Eco-System specific European environment (middleware and application level) support a broad range of enterprises with specific focus on SME’s Open Service Provisioning open provisioning and procurement of (highly specialized) services

Turning Client Vision into Results 15 Content of the presentation Atos Origin Overview and GRID positioning ATOS ORIGIN strategy from GRID research to GRID business –Short term –Mid term –Long term A feasibility study

Turning Client Vision into Results 16 Grid approach to the server farm A Virtual organization is “a set of individuals and/or institutions that share heterogeneous resources (computational units, software, storage systems, data sources, etc) in a controlled fashion, so that members may collaborate to achieve a shared goal” Entity 2 Entity 3 Entity-n HE3 Resources are virtualized and offered as Grid Services in the VO Grid Service Grid Services HE-n HE2 HE1 Entity 1 VO

Turning Client Vision into Results 17 Grid Server Farm targets optimize servers use reduce the costs allow scalable increase of the applications allow performances increase Reduce the number of the servers (50%) Increase the number of the applications (satur %) Increase the performances of single critical applications

Turning Client Vision into Results 18 Thank you FACING TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES TOGETHER