The 4th EGEE'09 Business Track

23 September 2009, Barcelona, Spain

EGEE’s Business Forum teams up with BEinGRID, Europe’s largest Integrated Project under FP6, for the 4th edition of the EGEE'09 Business Track on Wednesday 23 September 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. The three sessions will showcase achievements from a business and technology transfer perspective and define the next steps as we move towards new frontiers in the arena of clouds and grids.

The Value of Grids for Business 

The opening session spotlights the main focus of EGEE’s business activities and the BEinGRID project as well as the transition to a sustainable European Grid infrastructure with business and technology transfer firmly in mind. The session also presents Gridipedia and its focus on the business value of service oriented IT, playing a pivotal role in connecting the business and technology communities through dedicated services of interest to both with a direct Return on Investment (RoI) for the user experience through independent, expert analysis.

• EGEE and Business - Now and in the future
• BEinGRID: business pilots connecting distributed computing for today's challenges
• Gridipedia: From Service-oriented IT to Business Value
• Business and Technology Transfer for EGI

Cloud Computing and SLAs

The second session centers on Clouds and Service Level Agreement (SLA) management with Mathworks, examples of an industrial collaboration for the convergence of Grids and Clouds, StratusLab, and an in-depth analysis of these technologies in terms of business findings presented in the BEinGRID book due for release this autumn.

• StratusLab - Enhancing Grid Infrastructures with Cloud Computing
• Clouds and Grid: business and market findings
• Software Licensing in the EGEE grid infrastructure: The experience of MATLAB
• BEinGRID components: Methodology and SLA example

The third and final session looks at technology transfer with a series of case studies on how scientific research has been commercialized in relation to clouds and grids. It also showcases examples of scientific applications leading to commercialization through Cybula Ltd, the business benefits of GRIA middleware, as well as the advantages of grid-related technologies for the healthcare sector that Maat-G offers. The session highlights a particular emphasis on paediatrics and radio therapy demonstrated through a BEinGRID business pilot application.

• Grid based search – from Project to Commercialization
• GRIA B2B solutions and business benefits
• Maat-g - Servicing healthcare and beyond with Grid technologies
• Business Pilot: eHealth - Enhanced IMRT planning using Grid services on-demand with SLAs

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