Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Giuseppe Lettieri, Dip. di Ingegneria dell’informazione

The Scalable and Secure Infrastructures for Cloud Operations (SSICLOPS, pronounced “cyclops”) project focuses on techniques for the management of federated private cloud infrastructures, in particular cloud networking techniques within software-defined data centres and across wide-area networks. SSICLOPS is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon2020 programme.

SSICLOPS will empower enterprises to create and operate high-performance private cloud infrastructure that allows flexible scaling through federation with other private clouds without compromising on their service level and security requirements. SSICLOPS federation will support the efficient integration of clouds, no matter if they are geographically collocated or spread out, belong to the same or different administrative entities or jurisdictions: in all cases, SSICLOPS will deliver maximum performance for inter-cloud communication, enforce legal and security constraints, and minimize the overall resource consumption. In such a federation, individual enterprises will be able to dynamically scale in/out their private cloud services: because they dynamically offer own spare resources (when available) and take in resources from others when needed. This allows maximizing own infrastructure utilization while minimizing excess capacity needs for each federation member.

SSICLOPS-powered private clouds will offer fine-grained monitoring and tuning capabilities along with workload planning and optimization tools to maximize the performance across a broad spectrum of workloads and across a wide operational scale, as we will demonstrate using four highly diverse use cases. The SSICLOPS solution will be based upon state-of-the-art open source products used broadly in private cloud deployments today to provide enterprises with full control over their own deployment.

Coordinator
AALTO UNIVERSITY (Finland)

Other participants

• MARTEL GMBH (Switzerland)
• NETAPP B.V. (The Netherlands)
• NEC EUROPE LTD. (United Kingdom)
• UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (United Kingdom)
• UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI (Finland)
• F-SECURE OYJ (Finland)
• RHEINISCH-WESTFÄLISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN (Germany)
• TELEKOM DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Germany)
• HASSO-PLATTNER-INSTITUT FÜR SOFTWARESYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Germany)
• UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST (Romania)
• ORANGE POLSKA SPOLKA AKCYJNA (Poland)

Start date 01/02/2015
End date 31/01/2018
Duration 36 months
Project cost 6.937.123 €
Project funding 6.702.748 €
Unipi quota 146.175 €
Call title H2020-ICT-2014-1
Unipi role Partner

Project website https://ssiclops.eu/