17 December 2012
Dear TCD pilot participants, all, This is my regular e-mail update on the progress of the TERENA Trusted Cloud Drive pilot (the last one in 2012) however, you can always take a look at the latest updates at https://confluence.terena.org/display/CloudStorage/Phase+II+-+OPEN The last pilot conf.call was on 14 November 2012, the minutes can be found at https://confluence.terena.org/display/CloudStorage/Meeting+notes Since then, FCCN (Portugal), CESNET (Czech Rep.) and RNP (Brazil) managed to install a service platform instance for experimental purposes at their locations. The total number of platform test installations has raised to 7. 43 user accounts are enabled on the TERENA pilot service https://tc2.terena.org. The cloud-pilot mailing list has 62 members. Thanks to CESNET, the Installation Guide - maintained by the community - has been significantly improved with useful fixes, tips and tricks. Please, take a look at https://confluence.terena.org/display/CloudStorage/Installation+Guide The various software tests (performance, security, etc) are on-going at CESNET and PSNC. Feel free to offer any software testing effort to the pilot. The voluntary software developers have been working on the platform compatibility improvements, namely: - Lorenzo (CESCA) on the Jclouds back-end API - Gui (RNP) on the OpenStack Swift integration - Christos (GRNET) on the Pithos+ interworking I would like to *encourage everyone* to post questions, updates, useful hints on the mailing list of the pilot. TERENA has created an Github account (as virtual organisation) https://github.com/terena and forked CloudDrive as a project. Developers can be added as members of the organisation administered by TERENA. The main CloudDrive branch is still maintained by Maarten and we try to keep up the consistency as the development efforts are converging. There are plans to initiate a dialogue (and potential partnership) with the Helix Nebula http://helix-nebula.eu/ project as well as the forthcoming GN3+ project could related (SA7) activity. This is still in embryonic phase, we have to see the potentials and the level of uptake of TCD in the community. TERENA has recently received some interest from commercials willing to provide various cloud services to the R&E community. TERENA TF-Storage group had a discussion with Joyent https://www.terena.org/events/details.php?event_id=2473 where TCD was mentioned as a potential service platform brokering Joyent's IaaS offerings to the community. TERENA will continue the discussion with Joyent in early 2013. Keep up the good work in 2013! Season's greetings, Peter
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14 November 2012
Participants:
Panos
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Louridas,
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GRNET
Christos
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KK
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Loverdos,
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GRNET
Lorenzo
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J.
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Cubero,
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CESCA
Gui
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Maluf,
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RNP
Peter
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Szegedi,
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TERENA
NOTES
Previously (via e-mail)
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