We foresee the participation of one company, i.e. a cloud infrastructure provider.

€100.000 (max) are allocated for the inclusion of a Cloud provider.

The profile of organizations is both academics and companies active in the ‘service research’ domain that need to run experiments to further test,  consolidate or optimize their service platform, software services or tools that can be encapsulated in a set of VMs.

The rules of participation are the same as for any FP7 project.  We foresee to have typically one, maximum two participant organizations per experiment.

The activities to be carried out in the experiment related to this call are the following: 

• Design an experiment and explain the motivation
• Plan and deploy the concrete tests about the overall experiment on the BonFIRE infrastructure
• Define the metrics and check monitoring data, preferably using the BonFIRE monitoring facilities
• Support the rest of the technical activities in the project, by providing feedback about the use of the facility and proposing key strategic functionalities that would be interesting to include in the facility in future versions
• Prepare a show case about the experiment that can be used for dissemination purposes
• Report the necessary effort and costs according to FP7 rules and management practices requested by the Coordinator.

The profile of the company we are looking to engage with is a private/public cloud infrastructure provider with access to their own platform and the ability to support the creation of a new BonFIRE site on its infrastructure.

The rules of participation are the same as for any FP7 project.

The successful candidate will give access to their platform via programmable APIs and web-based interfaces and have enough capacity to host a lab-like project environment. The requested capacity to be dedicated to BonFIRE is in the region of 8 to 16 nodes x 4 cores (3GHz) 8 GB RAM and 2-3 Tb SAN.

The new provider should expose access to their resources by means of the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) to be accessed from the BonFIRE Resource Manager and become an additional BonFIRE site.

On the other hand, as another type of test, it will also have the install the BonFIRE stack (Resource Manager and Portal). The provider should be able to analyze and report back on issues raised and deployment errors that might be encountered within the work of the project.

The activities to be carried out in the project related to this call are the following:

• Provide access to their platform via programmable API (OCCI-based) and other web interfaces.
• Provision a dedicated lab-like project environment where experiments can be deployed.
• Provision normal operational support for this environment.
• Install and run the BonFIRE Resource Manager and Portal in its environment in order to validate the project developments (Proof of Concept).
• Support the technical and business activities in the project, by:
• Contribution to general project requirements from a commercial point of view.
• Contribution to identification of the business potential of the project’s experimental testing services in the cloud, also including the analysis of its own business.
• Report the necessary effort and costs according to FP7 rules and management practices requested by the Coordinator.