Dear NSI/NML members, I thought that some people from NSI/NML will be interested to know about the TNC2011 BoF "Provisioning infrastructure services on-demand: beyond Grids and Clouds" (ISOD-BoF) that will held on Monday May 16th from 9:00-12:30 (two sessions with break). The BoF's goal is to present to the TERENA community developments in the area of on-demand infrastructure services provisioning that are currently going on in a number of projects, standardisation bodies, in particular OGF, and other international initiatives. Clouds are also positioned as on-demand services provisioning environment and discussion of the related activities on Cloud architecture and provisioning models development will also take place at the BoF. BoF description is available at https://tnc2011.terena.org/core/event/6 and appended below for your convenience. Agenda drafting is in the final stage. If you are interested to present your work at the BoF please contact me. We have a couple of slots available. Hope to see somebody of you at the BoF or during the conference. Regards, Yuri ----------------------------------------------- TNC2011 BoF - https://tnc2011.terena.org/core/event/6 9:00-12:30 Monday, May 16, 2011 Title: "Provisioning infrastructure services on-demand: beyond Grids and Clouds" Modern e-Science applications and high-technology industry regularly deal with large volumes of data that must be stored, processed and visualized. This requires dedicated high-speed network infrastructures, which can be provisioned on-demand to support all potential application scenarios. Most Grid/Cloud usage scenarios for collaboration can benefit from combined network and IT resources provisioning. This notion of provisioning an infrastructure on-demand not only improves performance, but also can address such issues as application-centric manageability, consistency of security services, and energy efficiency (which is emerging as a forefront issue). The infrastructure on-demand provisioning model requires that a number of services and resource management systems interoperate at different stages within the whole provisioning process. However, in current practice, different systems and provisioning stages are not connected into a single unified workflow what impedes the definition of a whole provisioning model. This results in a set of inconsistent, disjoint services that then require a significant amount of human intervention to manually integrate them into a single cohesive service. The problem of better supporting collaborative groups of people and wider user communities at all layers of networking and applications infrastructure remains unsolved. The BoF will try to look at future developments and future technologies to solve this problem. This BoF will provide a venue to discuss a wide spectrum of research and technology problems in provisioning infrastructure services on-demand, existing frameworks to support on-demand infrastructure services provisioning, and new emerging business models for infrastructure virtualisation, such as Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The BoF will host presentations from EU projects and activities such as GEANT3, GEYSERS, NOVI, OGF ISOD Research Group and facilitate information and experience dissemination and exchange with TERENA community.