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      PRESENTER Omar Cherkaoui, Ph. D. UQAM
 
  This tutorial provides an introduction to the discipline of Cloud Networking. A variety of issues and opportunities for Network Operators, Infrastructure providers and Enterprises considering Cloud solutions are examined:

• Why enterprise customers should care about the network cloud issues
• How networking professionals have to change the way they think in order to provide cloud   computing networks
• The impact of QoS on latency in the cloud
• How customers can take advantage of the flexibility that the cloud offers
       
 
08.45
   WELCOME, REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
 
09.30
   Introduction and Motivation
Why do we need cloud networking?
Requirement of networking services for each type of cloud: IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, others aaS.
Requirement of isolation for each type of cloud: IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, other aaS
Private vs. Public Cloud challenges
       
 
10.30
 COFFEE BREAK
11.00
   Networking Challenges for the Cloud
Impact of the QoS on the Latency in the cloud
Data Center: Switching Issues and load balancing issues
Building Issues: Moving data center infrastructure to the cloud
Virtualized services: VLAN, VMPLS, Multicast
   
12.00
   LUNCH
 
14.00
   Dynamic Network for the Cloud
Management Issues for virtualized cloud
Requirement for rapid deployment of network services
Issues on managing virtual services
Requirement of interaction between applications and network services
       
 
15.00
   COFFEE BREAK
 
15.30
   Technical Aspects of Cloud Networking
Cloud Internetworking
Virtual Private Inter-Cloud
Domain management requirement
       
 
16.30
 END OF THE TECHNICAL TUTORIAL
 
   
 
     
     

  
  CHAIRMAN
  Omar Cherkaoui
  Ph. D.
  UQAM
       
 
08.15
   WELCOME, REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
      INTRODUCTION SESSION
 
09.00
   Telco Service Providers Poised to Challenge the Cloud Computing Companies
The major telecoms service providers have been watching the leading Cloud Computing companies including Google, Amazon and sales force.com grow their businesses by utilising their high bandwidth broadband networks. There is now an opportunity for the Telcos to move up the value chain from being “reliable bit pipes” to offering high value enterprise class, cloud-based business applications to their corporate customers.

- Why should Telcos offer Cloud Services? What are their strengths?
- Market potential and business advantages – SMB and Enterprise
- Past history – case study overview from US
- Finding the Right Partners and best Cloud platforms

Michael Knuckey, Editor, Cloud Vision
       
  09.30   Cloud Computing: from Customers to Users and from Accesses to Services
Access operators have to productize quality of their networks by adding a service layer on top of the basic access. The application providers have almost completed their journey, which started off as the selling of bulk products to now being the selling of services. Now access operators should make the same big shift.

- Productizing guaranteed end-to-end delivery between a cloud hosted application/content and
  the end user on a massive scale
- Charging a reasonable price based on quality to protect margins
- Adding value to both the end user as well as the application provider.
- Achieving a highly competent IP backbone provisioning

Vlad Ihora, Business Development Manager, TeliaSonera International Carrier
       
  10.00   Network Virtualization Impact on Cloud Based Services
Network virtualization can be exploited in several scenarios and enable new ways of doing business by allowing the trading of network resources among multiple providers and customers. The emergence of cloud-based services and the increasing maturity of virtualization technologies contributed to reinforce this trend.

- Showing how Network virtualization offers the capability to clearly decouple infrastructure from   services, which has been pursued for a long time, but never fully accomplished.
- Discussing a number of challenges, such as scalability and interoperability, network   management, security and resource control.

Jorge Carapinha, Telecommunications Engineer, Portugal Telecom Inovação
       
 
10.30
   COFFEE BREAK
      SESSION I TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES FOR TELCOS
  11.00   Building a Telecom Network Infrastructure for Cloud Computing
Telecommunication service providers, along with major IT players are well positioned to play a key role in the emerging cloud business. Services and products offered by these players are certainly central within cloud computing. However, it is not yet clear how well all these players are technically prepared for cloud computing, and what their position may be within the emerging cloud ecosystem.

- Discussing relevant core technologies and concepts required to promote the evolution of cloud computing.
- Showing among others the key technologies where telcos have an advantage as well as those where an effort may be required to meet emerging needs.

Drissa Houatra, Orange Labs
       
  11.30   The Telecom Operators Opportunity – Telecom based Cloud Services
Telecom service providers are in a unique position to become a major player in cloud services, leveraging both their network assets and direct customer relationships. The emergence of cloud computing technologies and business models forces the operators to move quickly into cloud services.

- Offering service value beyong connectivity to the end users.
- Discussing the eco-system, opportunities and obstacles that the operators are facing.communication

Amir Lahat, Head of Global Business Ventures, Nokia Siemens Networks
       
  12.00   The Service Delivery Requirements for Cloud Computing
Cloud services promise new technology solutions for the enterprise and SMB business markets - and with them new revenue opportunities for service providers. Turning that vision into a profitable offer in the marketplace is not an easy task.

- Creating a horizontal platform for delivery of cloud and non-cloud services
- Tying the network and the data center together to create unique and differentiated services.
- Recent innovations making this job easier for service providers.

gary gould, European Market Manager, Cisco
       
 
12.30
   LUNCH
  14.00   Software Solutions for Virtual Infrastructures Provisioning and Management
Presenting two software tools INRIA is developing to face the big challenge of integrating the network in the Cloud Computing and Infrastructure as a Service world.

- The HIPerNET software, produced in the context of the ANR HIPCAL project, helps Infrastructure   service providers creating, exploiting, managing and controlling virtual infrastructures in the   context of high speed Internet.
- The SRV software, developped within the CARRIOCAS project of the System@tic cluster, aims at   virtualizing, scheduling and reconfiguring physical high capacity ICT components in the context
  of optical networks.

Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet,  Research Director, INRIA
       
  14.30   Virtual Compute Services in the WAN
The layer 2 requirements of the various server virtualization technologies are causing problems in the architectures of data centers. Large Layer 2 and Fat Tree topologies can only scale so far. The introduction of layer 2 technologies that have been used to scale Ethernet in the WAN have applications in geographically diverse datacenter technologies. These layer 2 technologies can scale very effectively, much larger than layer 2 protocols traditionally deployed in datacenters.

- Providing the flexibility and manageability required to operationally scale these environments
  into the future.
- Offering various use cases to support the data center virtual environment.

Paul Unbehagen, Data Center Solution Architect, Alcatel-Lucent
       
  15.00   IMS in the Cloud: How to Deploy Rapidly VoIP Components
Voice over IP (VoIP) is an important application of cloud computing. Virtualization allows to deploy the VoIP components more rapidly and at a lower cost. . Optimizing the location of VoIP Virtual Machines (VMs) among the available set of physical servers. Using the cellularization concept to classify the users into different groups.

- Proposing a tool based on the cellularization concept : each user group located in the same zone is considered as belonging to the same cell.
- Examining the trade between performance effciency and rapidity of execution.

Authors: Omar Cherkaoui and Imen Limam Bedhiaf, UQAM

Speaker: Omar Cherkaoui, UQAM
       
  15.30   Cloud Control & Compliance
When all Services are IP Services (VOIP, IMS, IPTV, Web 2.0, and more) and delivered over a Cloud IAAS (compute and storage), the challenges around Cloud Control and Compliance will be the first task to address.

- Identity, Policy and Context Layer for Telco Clouds
- OS/VM, Hypervisor level and Data level Access Control
- Comprehensive Analysis (BI+NI) and Compliance Reporting

Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Chief Architect, OraclE
       
      SESSION II TEST ISSUES
  16.00   Scaling the Cloud to Serve A Billion
The cloud is the new “killer” service to bring service providers and enterprises into the age of network services capable of infinite scale. As an example, 5,000 servers with many cloud services could feasibly serve one billion users or end devices. The idea of services at this scale is now possible with multi-core processing, virtualization and high speed Ethernet, but even today the mix of implementing these technologies requires careful considerations in network infrastructure design.

- Discussing the security, performance, availability and scalability challenges of the network infrastructure in enabling cloud services.

Jurrie Van Den Breekel, Product Marketing Manager, Spirent Communications
       
 
16.30
   COFFEE BREAK
 
17.00
   PANEL    
 

The Cloud Services Opportunity: Operators Versus non-Telecom Players
This panel confronts telco and non-telco cloud service providers arguments.
It is animated by recognised analysts in this realm.

Large operators have several advantages over non-telecom cloud service players like Amazon and Google to bundle cloud-based services with network services and other traditional telecom products.

- Identifying the opportunities that cloud XaaS services present for operators now and in the future.
- Showing how they have to develop a competitive cloud service offering by leveraging their infrastructure and existing customer relationships.

CHAIRMAN

OMAR CHERKAOUI, UQAM

PARTICIPANTS

RAYMOND ZHANG, BT
TROY ANGRIGNON, VP Sales & Marketing, CLOUDSCALING
MICKAEL KNUCKEY, Editor, CLOUDVISION
VLAD IHORA, Business Development Manager, TELIASONERA
JORGE CARAPINHA, Telecommunications Engineer, PORTUGAL TELECOM INOVACAO
DRISSA HOUATRA, ORANGE LABS
RAKESH RADHAKRISHNAN, Chief Architect, ORACLE
    
         
18.00
   END OF THE CONFERENCE DAY ONE    
         
   
 
     
     
  CHAIRMAN
  Michael Knuckey
  Editor
  Cloud Vision
       
 
08.15
   WELCOME, REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
      SESSION III IMPACT ON CORPORATE
 
09.00
   Cloud Services for Business Customers
Evaluating demand for Cloud Services for business customers, understand impact for CSPs.

Emmanuelle Bingert, Marketing Manager Cloud Computing, HP CMS
       
  09.30   Managing the Organizational Boundaries
Although technological advances are central in helping service providers capture the opportunity of cloud computing, they aren't the whole story. In a world of collaborative services with micro-service SLAs that span organizational boundaries, it is the providers who best manage the organizational as well as the technical challenges of cloud computing who will best capitalize on this exciting managed service opportunity.

- Moving away from connectivity alone and rethinking the role of the network
- How to provide a trusted platform for the customers. 

Christophe Macquart, Director Technologies & Solutions, EMEA, Juniper Networks
       
  10.00   Network Enabled Cloud and Service Models
 Discussing the potential evolution of cloud computing in the form of private, hybrid and inter-cloud service models.

- Service-level management and security. 
- The role of standards related to cloud computing and emerging inter-cloud.
- Discussion about the value of these models to CSPs.

Monique J. Morrow, Distinguished Consulting Engineer, CIsCO
       
 
10.30
   COFFEE BREAK
      SESSION IV NETWORK MONETIZATION
  11.00   Monetizing Cloud Computing
Dynamic services in the cloud will not be priced and promoted in the same way or by the same set of industry actors as before. It will open up opportunities for smart businesses to establish a firm place in the cloud ecosystem. Not just as a supplier of services into the cloud, but as the operator of the underlying business transaction platform, managing the flow of revenues among the different players.

- What this means for telecom operators, device manufacturers and cloud platform providers?
- How will it disrupt traditional business models?
- What are the revenue sharing and revenue billing requirements for establishing a firm place
  in the cloud ecosystem?

Tangi Lemoine, Senior Pre-Sales Executive , SAP Convergent Charging
       
  11.30   Cloud Services for Network Monetization
Vendors now need to enable network providers to build flexible, cost-effective and scalable networks, and give them the ability to leverage a common IP infrastructure to build monetization. This flexibility enables the service velocity, network monetization and operational efficiencies mobile operators need to implement value-added services.

- Enhanced policy management, identity management and application awareness within
  the evolved packet core.
- Achieving an optimum ROI on investments in FTTH or next-generation/4G mobile broadband   networks.

Christophe Macquart, Director Technologies & Solutions, EMEA, Juniper Networks
       
      SESSION V CLOUD SOLUTIONS
  12.00   Pushing Communications Out Into The Cloud
With the rise in cloud computing platforms, enterprises have many new options for deploying applications such as IVR systems, customer surveys, notification systems, conferencing and more.

- What are the advantages of cloud computing?
- What are the “gotchas” to watch out for?
- Can security and privacy be maintained?
- Are hybrid systems possible?
- Can you trust the cloud to be there?

Jason Goecke, VP of Innovation, Voxeo labs
       
 
12.30
   LUNCH
  14.00   Mediating the Connection to Multiple Cloud Service Providers
Rather than re-invent the wheel, why not make use of existing internal identity technologies already proven in the enterprise (e.g. Kerberos for Windows networks, or access control products such as CA SiteMinder, Oracle Access Manager, and Sun Access Manager).

- Looking at best practices to bridge the connection from the on-premises identity management infrastructure up to the Cloud services. 
- How to allow users who access applications locally (or just simply sign on to their PCs) to access Cloud Services, all the time governed under the umbrella of an identity management infrastructure.

isabelle mauny, Senior SOA Architect and Vic Morris, CEO, Vordel
       
  14.30   An Online Backup Market Opportunity
Most telcos are adopting Microsoft's HMC platform for delivering SaaS services as Hosted Exchange, CRM and Sharepoint. However, a very important SaaS service is not included in this offering: Hosted Backup. Forrester indicated many reasons for SMB companies to use hosted (online) backup solutions.

Roland Sars, Co-founder and Director Sales and Marketing, BackupAgent
       
      SESSION VI MANAGEMENT ISSUES
  15.00   Management and Planning: Telco's Cloud Offering Differentiator
Cloud services are expected to increase the complexity of the service providers' offering. As service providers take on more IT roles and responsibilities, new BSS and OSS challenges should be expected. BSS and OSS will be required to manage solutions and projects in addition to current products and services.

- Preparing a detailed provisioning plan.
- Analyzing customer's requirements.
- Preparing and validating a solution design before the fulfillment sequence starts.

Ittai Bareket, CEO, Netformx, Inc.
       
 
15.30
   COFFEE BREAK
  16.00   Managing the Integration of Multiple Services
The emerging consensus is for a "hybrid" Cloud computing model which mixes local applications with external Cloud Computing resources. But how do you connect internal and public cloud services without recourse to time and cost consuming coding. And how do you obtain the necessary visibility, metering and security controls to provide governance over the mixed hybrid environment? 

- How to leverage Cloud Computing services in a controlled, secure manner?
- How to link to Cloud Platforms, without coding, and with governance in place?

isabelle mauny, Senior SOA Architect and Vic Morris, CEO, Vordel
       
      SESSION VII SECURITY
  16.30   Cloud Computing - Security Issues
There is a strong apprehension about insider breaches, vulnerabilities in the applications and system's availability that could lead to loss of sensitive data and money. Such challenges can dissuade enterprises from adopting cloud computing.

- Discussing various levels of security on cloud that needs to be assessed while moving
  on to cloud.
- Suggesting steps to secure data on cloud.

Pinal Patil, Sr. Strategist - Corporate Communications, Persistent Systems
       
  17.00   Securing Cloud Communications
As voice, IM and self-service applications move increasingly into the cloud and to IP communications, what do we need to be concerned about with regard to the security of hosted solutions?

- What protections can we put in place?
- What backup plans can we establish?
- What questions should we ask potential hosted/cloud vendors?

Dan York, Director of Conversations, Voxeo
       
 
17.30
   END OF THE CONFERENCE DAY TWO
 
 
     
   
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