GEC NEWS WIREProject aims to create high-performance private cloud infrastructures & facilitate secure data sharing across smart environments
The European Commission’s research and innovation program Horizon 2020 has granted EUR 6.7 million in funding for a research project for which NetApp is providing the technical coordination. The mission of the three-year project is to analyze which factors slow down network performance within on-premise and hybrid cloud infrastructures, and how these factors can be overcome. The goal is to support deployment and management of multiple public and on-premise cloud computing services to match business needs. Advancements in this space will for example support infrastructure needs of smart city projects around the world.
The scope of the project named Scalable and Secure Infrastructures for Cloud Operations (SSICLOPS, pronounced “Cyclops”) is firstly to research techniques for the management of federated private cloud infrastructures, in particular cloud networking techniques, within software-defined data centers and across wide-area networks. Based on this research, the project then aims to develop techniques for high-performance private cloud infrastructures that allow flexible scaling by the federation of various private clouds, without compromising service levels and security requirements.
According to Konstantin Ebert, Senior Director Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, Russia & CIS, NetApp,
“With the proliferation of smart cities around the world a solid infrastructure must be in place supporting cloud computing and a solid uninterrupted network performance in order to operate a smart, high scale environment. Consequently, the findings of the SSICLOPS project research can also benefit or support government initiatives such as “Dubai’s smart city”, in the UAE, to sustain business performance and economic growth through a higher performing and more secure private cloud infrastructure.”
