SIENA Success Story 10th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting 6-7 March 2013, Brussels 1 Daniele Lezzi Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The focus of the SIENA Initiative 2 Interoperability of services and applications is a key concern because it broadens choice and ensures a level playing field for both service providers and users, driving competition and innovation. Interoperability is a priority of the Digital Agenda for Europe. A coordinated effort for delivery of a Roadmap to help shape future e-Infrastructures Roadmap that is aligned with the needs of European and national initiatives.

Close synergy with the National Institute of Standards & Technology, US Joint workshop at: 3 International collaboration European Distributed Computing Infrastructures Standards Groups & Associations Enterprise

International outreach 4 Brazil – EU Collaboration event Cloudscape IV + position paper International Cloud Symposium, Roadmap contribution & public consultation Cloudscape III & IV + Position papers, Roadmap contribution & public consultation Cloudscape III & IV + Position papers NIST Roadmap contribution from SIENA Joint NIST/SIENA Intl Cloud Symposium NIST Cloud workshops

5 Encouraging interoperability testing The Cloud Interoperability Plugfest project (or "Cloud Plugfests" for short) is a co- operative community series designed to promote interoperability efforts on cloud- based software, frameworks, and standards among vendors, products, projects and implementations. Düsseldorf 2012 Jointly hosted by: Synergy strongly promoted by SIENA EU project cooperating with Japan Open Cloud Plugfests

EC Endorsement of SIENA “The aim of the SIENA Roadmap is to reduce the required time to reach consensus in distributed computing standardisation initiatives by focusing attention on the main challenges and charting the possible paths to follow. I therefore welcome the SIENA roadmap and invite all stakeholders to use it as a reference.” Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission “The potential benefits of cloud computing in business, public services and scientific research are widely recognised. Efforts like the SIENA standardisation roadmap will be very useful in making these benefits materialise.” Robert Madelin, Director General DG CONNECT, European Commission “The SIENA roadmap demonstrates a huge potential for innovation. I encourage you all to pay attention to this roadmap, to discuss it, to question it, bring it together with other aspects that may also need attention. Essentially, to help calibrate it and bring its recommendations into actions so that Europe can be not only cloud friendly but also cloud active.” Mario Campolargo, Director DG CONNECT, Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, European Commission

The success story: the Roadmap “This roadmap assesses the situation, identifies issues, and makes recommendations regarding the adoption and evolution of open standards-based interoperable grid and cloud computing infrastructure (e-infrastructure) to support research in Europe. The vision for a European e-infrastructure is to empower productivity of research communities through ubiquitous, trusted, and easy trans-national access to services for data, computation, communication and collaborative work. Some considerations in this roadmap apply also to computing in industry and the public sector.” SIENA Roadmap 7

11 far reaching calls for action with “commitment” and interest from stakeholder community via public consultation. Calls for action for stakeholders: – EC – Introduce project asset packages & reassessment of procurement procedures; eIIAG & Cloudwatch; inventory of grid and cloud standards for research; transnational data flow regulations – eResearch – review deployment of cloud for eResearch; business models for cloud usage; expand federation across multiple cloud suppliers – SDOs – Following eIIAG recommendations; increased collaborative international dialogue; open access to SDO standard documentation – DCIs – assessment of value & re-use of tangible & intangible assets & explore uptake by public services & industry 8 The success story: the Roadmap

The SIENA roadmap has been designed, drafted and compiled by Martin Antony Walker, SIENA Roadmap Editorial Board Chair; Silvana Muscella, SIENA Technical Coordinator; John Borras and Carlo Daffara, Roadmap Editorial Board Co- Chairs; James Ahtes, Nicholas Ferguson, Daniele Lezzi, Mirco Mazzucato, Stephanie Parker, Elisabettta Ronchieri, David Wallom, and Johannes Watzl, SIENA Consortium Members. 9 Roadmap Contributors

Legacy – The Cloudscape Series Self-sustainable Cloudscape series with strong stakeholder commitment 10 EC keynotes Ken Ducatel, Head of Unit, Software & Services, Cloud Computing Carlos Morais Pires, Scientific Officer, Excellence in Science Cloudscape V Proceedings 31 Position Papers Cloudscape V Proceedings 31 Position Papers 30 posters & 12 demos 115 participants Sponsors & supporters Blogging Media partners

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