CloudWATCH2 Virtual Interoperability Plugfest - March 17, 2017
Wednesday, 15 February, 2017 - 10:45
CloudWATCH2 project is pleased to announce a Virtual Interoperability Plugfest that will be held Friday, March 17, 2017.
Standards Plugfests
CloudWATCH2 will deliver three Cloud Interoperability Plugfests during its lifetime. Cloud interoperability plugfests are events, where technology providers can mutually test their implementations of standardised specifications for conformance and interoperability in an arena where the test results are private, allowing the testing of upcoming or pre-production products/services.
The most prevalent and longest-running series of interoperability testing events are conducted by the Cloud Plugfest initiative. In support of this, CloudWATCH2 is pioneering a new model of delivering virtual plugfest events as a more sustainable option to physical events.
A full report on how this will be achieved is available here.
CloudWATCH also delivered a series of cloud interoperability plugfests and workshops between 2013-2015. Reports from these events can be found below.
CloudWATCH2 & SNIA Cloud Interoperability Plugfest 24 Sept. 19-21 2016
Friday, 2 September, 2016 - 10:30
The CloudWatch2 project is pleased to announce its cooperation with SNIA to host and organise a Cloud Interoperability Plugfest colocated with SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2016 in Santa Clara, CA, USA from 19 - 22 September 2016.
6th Cloud Interoperability Workshop "Structured methodology supporting CloudWATCH profiles" - Brussels - Sept 2015
The sixth cloud interoperability workshop, being the last of such workshops under the auspices of the CloudWATCH project, brought together the results and outcomes of all previous workshops, the work conducted in WP2, and in other tasks in WP4. Through the numerical analysis conducted in WP2, which has also brought an online self assessment tool to life, WP4 was able to take the project clustering further and formulate three straw man standard profile documents that bring together standards addressing the respective needs of self assessment participants.
5th Cloud Interoperability Workshop "Engaging with SDOs" - Brussels - March 2015
Interoperability is a basic requirement for cloud services. It fosters fair competition and is fundamental to integrating components, so that an ongoing innovation process is possible. But interoperability demands common technical and legal parameters, which are related to open standards and governance.
Cloud Interoperability Plugfest Series
The Cloud Interoperability Plugfest series (or "Cloud Plugfests" for short) originated out of community-based interoperability efforts by a variety of organizations in 2011 and was further developed into a cooperative venue to exchange information and to encourage interoperability on implementations of relevant cloud standards.
Cloud standards demonstrated in real-world settings at 15th Cloud Plugfest
At the Cloud Plugfest December 2014 in London, Primeur Magazine (original article) had the opportunity to interview Alan Sill from Texas Tech University. Alan Sill is Director of the National Science Foundation Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center in the USA.
4th Cloud Interoperability/Cloud Plugfest Workshop - London - Dec 2014
The fourth workshop continued the successful collaboration with the CloudPlugfest initiative in trying a new format in attracting community interest and commitment. As a venue, the UCC 2014 event in London provided the perfect audience, and the workshop was well attended.
Creating an interoperable future for clouds - The 3rd CloudWATCH Cloud Plugfest and Standards Profile Workshop - Summary Report
Monday, 6 October, 2014 - 17:45
A handful of coders converged at the 3rd CloudWATCH Cloud Plugfest and Standards profile Workshop, hosted at the EGI Big Data Solutions Workshop in Amsterdam on 25 September 2014. The principal work was to test Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standards against the ETSI test suite specifications.
2nd Cloud Interoperability Workshop "Use of standards in by R&I projects in FP7" - Brussels - March 2014
With the first workshop already initiating a seed portfolio focusing on the technical interoperability of Cloud services, the second workshop aimed at extending the reach to EC-funded cloud related projects from FP7 Call 8 & Call 10 and others. To this extent, the workshop was embedded into the DG CONNECT E2 concertation meeting held in Brussels in March 2014.
1st Cloud Interoperability Workshop "Proposing a seed portfolio" - Madrid - Sept 2013
The first workshop was held at the EGI Technical Forum in Madrid in September 2013 aimed at defining principles and specifications for the creation of an open schema to certify organisations and services against existing Cloud requirements and technical Cloud profiles. The workshop was based on existing material, such as ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 17021:2011, ISO/IEC 27006:2011, ISO 19011, existing cloud specific certification schema, such as NIST FedRAMP, and under development and cloud specific certification schemas such as Cloud Security Alliance Open Certification Framework.
