Hiroshi and the team here at NICTA are very excited about our work on “Evaluating data consistency properties in commercial cloud storage – consumers’ perspective” being accepted at CiDR 2011! Stay tuned camera ready paper will be available shortly…
Evaluating Data Consistency Properties in Commercial Cloud Storage – Consumers’ Perspective
Posted by annaliu on December 6th, 2010 · Work
A Buzzy CloudCamp Canberra and our new NICTA CEO!
Posted by annaliu on October 14th, 2010 · Work
Wow – it was a great cloudcamp in Canberra – big thanks to Dave and Ben for making this happen again, and NICTA a proud venue sponsor.
Good to see some familiar faces, and even more fantastic to see some great innovation in cloud computing from right here in Australia – the youthful enthusiasm and passion for technology is clearly evident from some of our local IaaS innovators – Joseph and Sheng from OrionVM - great to see the results from years of academic research making its way into your product through the form of OpenNebula, and fantastic SaaS innovation from Connect2Field, your lightning talk definitely captured the imagination of the predominantly Government enterprise audience in Canberra – on how to better enable next gen field workforce!
I feel heartened to see the next generation innovators coming through with so much energy and passion, and hopeful that we are creating the right incubation environment through our education system/University environments and research labs such as NICTA for enabling and empowering a fresh and vibrant software industry in Australia.
With the appointment of our new NICTA CEO – Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte, I am very excited about further strengthening our industry engagement, and bringing through the next generation of innovators for Australia!
Showstoppers of Cloud Computing – and how to overcome them
Posted by annaliu on September 27th, 2010 · Uncategorized
Herbjorn just posted this nice blog on the top 3 showstoppers of cloud computing – and an unexpected one.
Agree!
Now - there are additional ways of gaining trust – testing the water via carrying out cloud platform evaluations; doing a proof of concept of deploying a slice of an existing business application, and see what you learn in dimensions around performance, security, licensing, maintainability etc ; gaining better control in terms of forecasting how much cloud resource you will need, and how much it will cost; and of course, as Herbjorn mentioned, rigorous contractual conversations with your favourite cloud vendor.
I would also expand on the ‘challenge of CapEx – to – OpEx’, to also include enterprise organisations that already has multi-year outsourcing arrangements… the adoption of cloud represents a radical shift in an enterprise’s IT process, particularly in the management, governance and service delivery aspects, not to mention the expected changes in people’s roles and responsibility.
The big prize will go to the innovative System Integrators that work out a way to continual provide enterprise strength IT services, while incorporating effective and efficient wrapper support services over some attractive public IaaS offerings…
Architecting Cloud Applications Tutorial at APSEC 2010
Posted by annaliu on September 27th, 2010 · Uncategorized
Many thanks to everyone that has expressed interest in our presentations at the SOACloud Symposium in Berlin.
For those of you that cannot make it all the way to Berlin, I intend to share a lot of the experiences right here at home – Sydney, 17th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference on 30th Nov. Hope to see you there!
Presentation #2 at SOA Cloud Symposium
Posted by annaliu on August 19th, 2010 · Uncategorized
Together with Hiroshi and Kevin, we’ll be presenting more of our evaluation findings at the SOA Cloud Symposium on Oct 6, hope to see you in Berlin!
Title: 10 things you didn’t know about cloud platforms: Azure, GAE and Amazon EC2/SimpleDB
Abstract: Everyone knows about eventual consistency properties of the cloud, but do you know how long it will take for a piece of data to become consistent/fresh? Despite the aim of providing infinite scalability, is there any hard limits on some of the leading cloud platform services? We know cloud platforms aims to provide auto-scaling, but is it really all magic?
We at the University of NSW and National ICT Australia (NICTA) have been evaluating Cloud platforms over the last 18 months. In this session, we will share with the audience some of these (often surprising) evaluation findings, that should be of interest to application architects and developers looking at designing and building solutions using the cloud.
Cloudcamp in Canberra
Posted by annaliu on August 16th, 2010 · Uncategorized
It’s happening in Canberra in October – onya Ben and Kristoffer!
and NICTA is already a venue sponsor!
Hopefully round up lots of interesting discussion on Government Cloud this time round…
SOA and Cloud Symposium
Posted by annaliu on August 13th, 2010 · Uncategorized
will be presenting in the “Real World Cloud Computing Track” on 5th Oct on our recent project experiences in evaluating and using cloud, and sharing with the world some unique challenges and opportunities Australians have with Cloud Computing. Latest agenda at soasymposium.com.
I am really looking forward to connecting with my international colleagues in this experience sharing event.
Australian Architecture Forum 2009 Keynote Slides and Recording
Posted by annaliu on September 4th, 2009 · Uncategorized
Thanks to the AAF 2009 organisers, my keynote presentation “Architecting Cloud Applications – The Essential Checklist” is now available on the event website. Enjoy!
Note to the recent Sydney Cloud-Campers – this is the master deck from which you got the 5 min lightning talk session the other evening.
The team here is also busily working on getting the corresponding paper publications out there, incorporating lessons learnt, experiences, and details of the experimental setups etc, so stay tuned.
Smart Services CRC PhD Scholarships Available in Cloud Computing Research
Posted by annaliu on August 28th, 2009 · Uncategorized
Thanks to Wayne, the scholarships are now being advertised, happy to talk to any final year students expecting to receive 1st class honours with WAM > 85, and or industry professionals interested in pursuing some research work for a while.
Attending NICTA TechFest
Posted by annaliu on August 14th, 2009 · Work
I was very impressed with some of the fantastic research showcased at NICTA TechFest earlier in the week. Was a great chance to catch up with a number of old colleagues from the research world as well as some familiar faces from Microsoft. I even had the chance to talk geek with James and Liam about how to embed some of our cloud platform evaluaton results into an architecture analysis tool like ePASA as part of the Business Adaptation and Interoperability program of work, so to carry out pre-Cloud migration assessment (more about this later). Besides all the cool science embodied in some of the projects, I think I am most impressed by the enterpreneurial culture the management team at NICTA have created for the next generation of Australian innovators.
I even got to find out that Bob is the one responsible for naming the event TechFest, which is a very familiar term for me having spent some years at Microsoft attending the MS TechFest event.
One observation is that I didn’t see many of the bloggers and twitteratis/digiratis attending, and I fear the word about this great event simply isn’t out there enough? plenty of VCs and government funding body reps were there though!