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Presentation: Cloud Computing Interoperability

// December 1st, 2009 // amazon-ec2, cloud computing

I gave a talk about Cloud Computing Interoperability in the SoCal Code Camp at USC a week ago. I have been wanting to blog about it, but just couldn’t just because of work load.

My talk was mostly directed at the importance of interoperability in the clouds, specially in the IaaS arena. First I began with a quick definition of terms, Cloud Computing, its categories adn types. And then focused on the crust of the matter: Interoperability Efforts.

I only talked about UCI (Unified Cloud Interface) and OCCI (Open Cloud Computing Interface). I chose to talk about UCI because the effort was more ambitious and the use of  ontologies to communicate different providers attracted me a lot. UCI is a dead effort. The team provided the spec and a some-what complete Proof of Concept. But it has stalled since April, 2009.

The OCCI effort is focused mostly on IaaS, creating interoperability bridges between providers like Amazon EC2 and the like. OCCI is implemented by Open Nebula, of the RESERVOIR project, which also implements the EC2 standard (yes it is a standard!).

Anyways, I have included my presentation. I will dwell more on the matter later, when we finish our experiment.

References:

* UCI – http://groups.google.com/group/unifiedcloud
* OCCI-WG – http://www.occi-wg.org/doku.php?id=spec
* OpenNebula - http://www.opennebula.org/
* Reservoir - http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/

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UPDATE: The presentation has been added to the OGF’s GridForge Wiki.

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