Dear all, As requested by some of you, I provide here some details about the OIL that have been extracted from the FI-WARE achievements document sent to the EC. In the DoW you will also find how it fits in the work plan. Best Regards, Sergio Part B: Open Innovation Lab What services will it provide? The FI-WARE Open Innovation Lab (OIL) will be a case example of a FI-WARE Instance. As such: ● It provides a FI-WARE Cloud<http://cloud.lab.fi-ware.eu/> where third parties can setup and configure the virtual infrastructure (computing, network, storage) to run, test and validate their own experimental Future Internet Applications ● It makes FI-WARE Generic Enablers<http://catalogue.fi-ware.eu/> implementations (GEis) available for experimentation. Two non-exclusive scenarios will be supported: ○ Enabling applications to use global accessible FI-WARE GEi instances provided “as a Service” ○ Enabling application providers to create dedicated FI-WARE GEi instances by means of using advanced software deployment functions supported in the FI-WARE Cloud The FI-WARE OIL will be operated under central control and it will be accessible from a dedicated website on the Internet: lab.fi-ware.eu. Applications deployed on the FI-WARE OIL will benefit from a high-speed 10Gb connection of FI-WARE datacenters to the Internet. Third parties will be able to connect to the FI-WARE OIL website, and to set up dedicated user accounts, provided they adhere to the FI-WARE OIL terms and conditions. Once they have created their accounts, they will be able to setup the virtual infrastructure needed to run their experiments and they will be able to deploy their applications on top. Those applications will be able to make use of services provided by global or dedicated FI-WARE GEi instances and the FI-WARE OIL Cloud (Both collectively referred as FI-WARE OIL Services) and can be offered to experimental end-users. Relying on dedicated FI-WARE Security GEis, applications deployed on the FI-WARE OIL will be able to manage the identity of end-users and apply access control policies. Use of FI-WARE OIL Services is granted for free provided that it is solely for experimental purposes. Users will not be able to provide any production service based on FI-WARE OIL Services. Use will be also subject to certain restrictions in terms of quota (allocable resources) and period of time due to capacity limits and the need to share resources. FI-WARE OIL support (i.e., support to FI-WARE Cloud Hosting functionality and to the FI-WARE GEis deployed in OIL) will be provided in best-effort mode with no obligation to provide any particular service level or support services. FI-WARE OIL services and content available at the FI-WARE OIL site will be provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Each FI-WARE GEi, as well as the FI-WARE OIL itself will have a dedicated JIRA tool enabling users to issue tickets asking for support or enhancements. It is the FI-WARE Consortium ambition to ease connection of the FI-WARE OIL to experimental facilities, therefore enriching the offering to third parties. Examples of such experimental facilities are those bound to smart cities or digital home living labs or other smart spaces. Their connection would enable third parties running experimental Future Internet applications on the FI-WARE OIL to exploit data belonging to specific open data sets and/or captured from sensors or act upon actuators available in the smart city or an example digital home. That way, FI-WARE OIL will not be limited to provide innovative technologies, but it will also provide access to real data which, combined with the technologies, provide a differential value. What sample services/applications will it host and their characteristics. There is no restriction with respect to the type of experimental applications that can be hosted in the FI-WARE OIL environment, or the vertical application domain to which those experimental applications belong to, because the Generic Enablers provided by FI-WARE are actually generic. Example of applications can be smart-city applications, social web applications, any kind of SaaS application (e.g., CRM applications delivered as a Service), applications dealing with management of sensor networks, etc. Indeed, applications of any kind. As stated previously, Use of FI-WARE OIL Services is granted for free provided that it is solely for experimental purposes. Users will not be able to provide any production service based on FI-WARE OIL Services. Last but not least, usage will require that application providers adhere to the FI-WARE OIL Terms and Conditions. How will users within the FI-PPP access the OIL? They can connect to same site on the Internet: lab.fi-ware.eu. However, we are considering that UC projects within the FI-PPP may have a Cloud environment which will be different from that offered to third parties beyond the FI-PPP through the FI-WARE OIL. We may go for defining a dedicated domain (e.g., testbed.fi-ware.eu) or be able to distinguish between different accounts (FI-PPP related or third-party). The term “FI-WARE Testbed” will then be used to refer to the dedicated environment offered to UC projects, where usage of FI-WARE GEs is governed by the FI-PPP Collaboration Agreement. The term “FI-WARE OIL” will then be used to refer to the environment offered to third parties in general, for which the use is regulated by established FI-WARE OIL Terms and Conditions. However, both environments are deployed on top of the same physical infrastructure and operated centrally. How will users beyond the FI-PPP access the OIL now and after the FI-PPP? Third parties will just need to connect to the FI-WARE OIL site, create user accounts and adhere to the FI-WARE OIL terms and conditions to start using it. After the FI-PPP, we envision that similar experimental environments, or a continuation of the existing one, will be maintained, but the exact model is still to be determined. Moreover, we envision that commercial environments will also be available, completing the whole innovation ecosystem At what sites will the OIL be hosted, what is their computing power, network capacity, support people, etc.? The FI-WARE OIL is deployed on a number of datacenter facilities referred as FI-WARE OIL nodes. There will be a first node in Seville, hosting the current FI-WARE Testbed site, but a new node is under preparation (Malaga). The physical infrastructure (servers, network switching equipments and connectivity) is owned, operated and provided by Red.es while the premises belong to the local authorities in Seville and Malaga. The connectivity and performance of the network is guaranteed by the 10Gb link provided by Red.es. Red.es (rediris) is the NREN<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_research_and_education_network> in Spain. As regards the capacity, the current estimate for the physical servers planned is a combined amount of >8,5Tbytes of physical RAM, storage volume of >300 Tbytes with >900 computing cores. Who supports the OIL concept (what industry presence/involvement, relations to XIFI and EIT ICT Labs, who drives the OIL)? The support to the FI-WARE OIL is provided at different layers. On the infrastructure level, Red.es will ensure the availability of the servers and the network (housing). FI-WARE Cloud partners will offer the support for the cloud hosting functions that will be provided to the FI-WARE OIL users (application providers). Finally, the owners of each FI-WARE GEi deployed on the FI-WARE OIL will made reasonable efforts to provide support for their FI-WARE GEis during the project lifetime. However, there is no obligation to provide any particular service level or support services. The FI-WARE OIL plays a fundamental role in the innovation ecosystem we aim to build. Therefore, FI-WARE partners are engaged in making FI-WARE OIL a success. The FI-WARE and XiFi projects are working together to ensure that all functionalities supported in the FI-WARE OIL are equally supported in XiFi. This way, enabling portability of applications from one environment to the other. Major differences between the FI-WARE OIL and XiFi will be the number of nodes, capacity per node, geo-graphical location of nodes and may be the kind of support each will provide to users. FI-WARE is willing to discuss opportunities of collaboration with EIT ICT Labs. Some steps have already been made in that direction: a project proposal has been submitted to the recent call by EIT ICT Labs targeted to connect a number of experimental facilities, linked to EIT ICT Lab nodes, to the FI-WARE OIL and involve a number of SMEs in the development of future internet applications to be experimented in the FI-WARE OIL connected to these facilities. -- Sergio Garcia Gomez Telefonica Digital (TID/PDI) - Enablers & Technology Parque Tecnologico de Boecillo. Abraham Zacuto, 10. 47151 Boecillo (Valladolid), SPAIN. E-mail: sergg at tid.es<mailto:sergg at tid.es> Phone: (+34) 983367709 / (+34) 913129098 (IP) ________________________________ Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. 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