Karim Baïna (ENSIAS) Cloud research opportunities

(CC) Prof. Karim Baïna, ENSIAS at « Les Journées Technologies du Cloud Computing », UCAM, Marrakesh, April 20 & 23, 2012

Four research opportunitieson « Cloud Computing »

Prof. Habil. Dr. Ing. Karim Baïna

Responsible of Alqualsadi research teamon Enterprise Architecture

ENSIAS, Mohammed V Souissi University, Rabat, Morocco

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Alqualsadi research team at ENSIAS, UM5S Enterprise Architecture, Quality of their Development and Integration

Alqualsadi* research team stands forEnterprise Architecture, Quality of their Development and Integration

* Abou Al Hassan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad Alqualsadi (1412-1486)Arithmetics, Algebra, Astronomy (father of X and √ symbols)

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Alqualsadi research team at ENSIAS, UM5S Enterprise Architecture and Business/IT Strategy

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Alqualsadi research team at ENSIAS, UM5S Enterprise Architecture and Cloud

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Alqualsadi research team at ENSIAS, UM5S Enterprise Architecture and Cloud – Alignment perspectives

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Alqualsadi research team at ENSIAS, UM5S Enterprise Architecture and Cloud – Alignment perspectives

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Axis 4 : EA Applied to ICT4De-Gov,e-health, and e-education.Citizen-centric approach for EA use.

Axis 1 : EA GovernanceKPI/GKI/KFS models for IT Strategy,Governance, Maturity & Alignment.TOGAF/DoDAF,COBIT, CMMi.

Axis 2 : EA IntegrationPortal/Process/Service/ComponentUser-centric syntactic/semantic/technicalintegration and interoperability.through SOA/BPM/MDM/ERP/Portals/3G.

Axis 3 : EA QualityMDE/MDA, EA models formalspecification and validation.B methods, Graphs, PN, LTL/TTL,but also Six sigma, ITIL.

Axis 5 : Applied Maths Methods for EAstatistics and quantitative method for EA quality, optimal control for IT alignment, modelling for ITG,

Enterprise Architecture

Alqualsadi team - Research axesEntreprise Architectures, Quality of their Developement and

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Detailed presentations of Alqualsadi : www.slideshare.net/kbaina

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Alqualsadi research team in number● 6 years old● 6 permanent researchers-professors (IT, IS, &

mathematics)● 4 associated IT, IS researchers-professors (IT &

IS)● More than 30 PhD students (most have industrial

experience)● 25 publications per year (in average)● 4 published books● 3 docent defenses● 6 PhD defenses

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Alqualsadi participation of international cooperation &

research projects● European FP projects

– E-learning FP6 projects : MEDFORIST (2004), MEDNET'U (2005)

– Networking FP6 project : MED-IST (2007-2009)

– Networking FP6 project : JOIN-MED (2009-2011)

● French Volubulis Project (2006-2009)● Swedish Research Council MENA projects

(2005-2006) & (2007-2011)

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Collaboration research Ideas Portfolio

● Idea 1 – « Enterprise Architecture for Cloud Transition »

● Idea 2 – « Interoperability of Clouds - issues for a better Governance »

● Idea 3 – « Service Oriented Computing as leveraging for Cloud Computing Transition »

● Idea 4 – « e-gov and cloud computing - IT strategy and Business models for emergent countries »

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Idea 1 – « Enterprise Architecture for Cloud Transition »

● Opportunities :– There are no standards today for integrating all

heterogeneous components on the cloud. So unless your business is completely served by cloud services, you will have a hybrid solution – which will require EA

– Cloud computing adopted without taking into consideration Enterprise Architecture will yield “spaghetti clouds” (aligned with “spaghetti architectures”)

● Research Questions :– What EA facilities may offer for cloud-IT & in-house IT

hetereogeneous services governance ?

– How EA may enable cloud to impact Business Strategies and help organisation change ?

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Idea 2 – « Interoperability (i14y) of Clouds - issues for a better

Governance »● Opportunities :

– Cloud provider uses differents protocols, virtualisation plaftorms, and administration tools (hypervisors, trafic managers, etc.)

– Managing multi-provider platform implies beeing able to manage execution and interoperation among those différents clouds

● Research Questions :– What will be different possible scenarii of

interoperation of clouds ?

– What will be new communication standards and protocols of to be defined to achieve i14y ?

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Idea 3 – « Service Oriented Computing as leveraging for Cloud

Computing Transition »● Opportunities (5 Reasons) :

– (i) accessibility through a SOA interface, (ii) visibility through SOA discovery tools and techniques, (iii) extensibility (customisation) through SOA techniques, (iv) SLA control through SOA contract-management techniques, (v) and adherence to standards through SOA policy management techniques

● Research Questions :– Are SOA standard (security, asynchonous messaging,

reliability, transactions...) protocols & mechanimss ready for managing properly in-house and coud services ?

A. Mulholland, R. Daniels, and T. Hall, 2008

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Idea 4 – « e-gov and cloud computing - IT strategy and Business models for

emergent countries »

● Opportunities :– Cloud computing capabilities will enhance collaboration and

mutualisation in e-gov systems

– Cloud computing applied to e-gov will impact processes, technology and people in adminitrations IT organisations

● Research Questions :– What are best & worst practices of adopting Cloud

Computing within national e-Government Strategy (especially for local e-Government strategic roadmap)

– How to measure and manage data quality of of a public information system (data integrity, data availability, data loss protection, data security, data interoperability), computing based context ?

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Thank you for your attentionyour questions

Prof. Habil. Dr. Ing. Karim Baï[email protected]

@kbaina

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Karim Baïna (ENSIAS) Cloud research opportunities