Datacenter IaaS workshop 2014

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Organisers

This workshop is organised as part of the GEANT3plus project. The responsible GEANT3plus task team is "Campus Best Practices" (NA3/T2).

This event contact email address is: funet-events (at) csc.fi

Venue and date

The workshop takes place at the September 11-12 2014, Helsinki Finland.

Event hotel HUONE, (Länsisatamankatu 16, 00180 Helsinki)
- Instructions to find venue
- See the map

More practical information can be found end of this page

Welcome letter

Requirements of IT services are growing. Costs drive to seeking more efficient solutions taking into account the availability requirements. Is your datacenter full, old, and energy consuming? Is building new space the only option or could infra as a service be a better solution?

A wide range of cloud services is available. What kind of technology is behind these solutions? What is required to build own cloud? Is it worthwhile to build your own cloud or is joint procurement a better choice? What if the services are outsourced, how to ensure high quality of services? How can energy efficiency be ensured when capacity is obtained as a service? This workshop tries to find answers to the above questions.

The participants are challenged to ask questions from the speakers and discuss with each other to find out the critial areas of datacenter IaaS procurement. If such areas exist.

The workshop is open to anyone and will be held 11-12.9.2014 in Helsinki Finland.

The intended target audience is the network engineers working with deployment of IT-services on campuses and NREN staff involved in datacenter and campus deployment.

The program of the workshop consists of the following themes:

Green datacenter technologies
Cloud service provisioning
Joint procurement, costs and agreements
Security and standards
Network

Welcome to the workshop!

On behalf of the program committee,

Janne Oksanen

chair

Call for Presentations

The GN3plus Datacenter IaaS workshop 2014 organizers ask the community to contribute to the event by presenting their results, experiences and success stories on the deployment and usage of datacenter and cloud solutions. The workshop is arranged in Helsinki between September 11th and 12th, 2014.

Submission guidelines

The author contact details and short abstract are asked to be submitted electronically to the reviewers by August 15th, 2014 23:00 EET. The authors of the selected papers are contacted for arranging the practicalities.

For more information, please, contact the reviewers.

The submission e-mail address is: funet-events (at) csc.fi

Important dates

Call for presentation is opened: April 15th, 2014
Submission deadline: August 1st, 2014
Approval: August 6th, 2014
Presentation date: September 15th, 2014

Registration page

Registration is open till August 22nd. The number of attendees is limited to 40.

Programme

This is an agenda with suggested topics.

Note: All topics and times can be changed at any time (at this point)

Webcasting

The Thursday and Friday program is webcasted.

Instruction: Click on the link (below) and you can log on your own ACP user name and password, if you have them. If you do not have ACP user name and password, click on “Enter as a Guest” and type your name. If the system wants to install itself, click OK. This should happen at the first time only.

<webcasting link>: (link is not published yet)

Day 1	"0x0D, Destination unreachable"
09:00	Reception opens
10:00-10:15	Opening	Jari Miettinen/CSC
SESSION I	Theme: Green datacenter technologies	N.N.
10:15-10:35		N.N.
10:35-10:55		N.N.
10:55-11:15		N.N.
11:15-11:35		N.N.
11:35-12:35	Lunch break
SESSION II	Theme: Cloud service provisioning	N.N.
12:35-13:05
13.05-13.35
13.35-14:05
14:05-14:20	Coffee break
SESSION III	Theme: Joint Procurement, costs and agreements	N.N.
14:20-14.40
14.40-15:00
15:00-15:20
15:20-15.40
15:40-16:00
16.00-16:15	Ending of first day	Janne Oksanen/CSC

Social event (September 11th)

Datacenter visit
- Event starts at 17:00
- There will be bus transportation Venue - DC - Helsinki center - Venue
Dinner
- Event starts at 20:00
- Radisson Blu Plaza (kabinet Takkahuone), Mikonkatu 23, 00100 Helsinki
- See the map

Day 2	"0x0D, Destination unreachable"
9:00	Reception opens
9:45-9:45	Opening	N.N.
SESSION IV	Theme: Security and standards	N.N.
09:45-10:05		N.N.
10:05-10.25		N.N.
10:25-10:45		N.N.
10:45-11:05		N.N.
11:05-11:25		N.N.
11:25-12:30	Lunch break
SESSION V	Theme: Network	N.N.
12:30-13:00		N.N.
13:00-13:30		N.N.
13:30-14:00		N.N.
14:00-14:30	Coffee break
SESSION VI	Theme: Lightning talks	N.N.
14:30-14:45		N.N.
14:45-15:00		N.N.
15:00-15:15		N.N.
15:15-15:30		N.N.
15:30-15:45		N.N.
15:45-16:00	Ending of the workshop	N.N.

Practical information

Moving around Helsinki: There's an extensive public transport system in the greater Helsinki area. Taxis and Airport Taxi services are also available. It takes about 45 minutes to reach Helsinki center from the Airport using public transport. Taxi service halves the time. The rush hours (7:00-9:00, 15:00-17:00) usually double the driving time.
- Helsinki Airport bus and taxi service information
- Helsinki Region Transport Journey Planner, timetables, routes etc
- Airport taxi services
- Helsinki metro and tram routes.
Networking: eduroam and quest network at the workshop
Climate: average climate information
Hotels: Nearest hotels of the venue are
- Holiday Inn
- Radisson Blu Seaside

There will be special prices for participant to these hotels. More information will follow.

You can find more hotels by using e.g. hotels.com or booking.com services.