UBITECH has chaired the DIN SPEC 91337 technical committee, organized and supported by DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung – German Institute for Standardization) that has finally created and published a global standard for managing and controlling the life cycle of an application that is executed in a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud provider.
The term PaaS provider is in line with the definition that is provided by NIST according to which a PaaS provider is a cloud provider that offers the “capability to the consumer to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages and tools supported by the provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed applications and possibly application hosting environment configurations”. The term “life cycle” denotes all steps and administration functions that are required in order to manage an application starting from the submission of an application to the PaaS provider to the de-provision of an application. These steps and functions represent core services that have previously been offered to service users by Platform-as-a-Service providers as non-standardized, heterogeneous programming interfaces. The DIN SPEC 91337 is intended to provide a definition of these programming interfaces, thus maximizing the interoperability of Platform-as-a-Service-Solutions on the one hand and services and tools from third party vendors on the other hand. If adopted by the industry, the DIN SPEC 91337 could be the basis of a new, open and independent Platform-as-a-Service ecosystem.
The standard and publishable materials is provided in English and targeting international users. The package comes in two parts: 1. Normative and 2. Informative. Normative part is a written document of 24-30 pages, while the Informative part is the downloadable zip file including standardized APIs. For more info, please download the DIN SPEC brochure here.
Source: http://www.din.de/en/about-standards/din-spec-en/wdc-beuth:din21:267320824
UBITECH continues its successful participation in the H2020 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, with the award of top ranked proposals at European level (ARCADIA, INPUT, PaaSword, FALCON, ENTROPY, SUBSOL, SAGE-CARE), as highlighted in a recent report published by the Greek National Documentation Centre (Greek National Contact Point for H2020), entitled “Greek Participation in the Information and Communication Technologies Programme of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, 2014-2015 Work Programme”. In particular, UBITECH ranks 5th among all Greek SMEs in the “top organizations by funding” list concerning the ICT related grants in 2014-2015. In particular, UBITECH has successfully participated in the following ICT related funded research projects (that are taken into account in the aforementioned EKT report): PaaSword, ARCADIA and INPUT. For your convenience, you can download the GNDC report (in Greek) 
UBITECH invites you at the first industrial focus workshop of the PaaSword H2020 project on privacy-by-design and secure cloud technologies, entitled “No More Dark Clouds with the Data Privacy And Security By Design Platform-As-A Service”, which going to take place on November 10th, 2016 (10:00 – 15:00 Athens time) at the INNOVAATHENS – Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Technopolis City of Athens.
UBITECH is proud to be awarded with the Best Demo Award at Cloud Forward Conference 2016 (held in Madrid, Spain) – based on the votes of all those who attended the demo session. In the course of the SME Event and Demonstrations session of Cloud Forward Conference 2016, UBITECH presented an interactive, live demonstration of the PaaSword data privacy and security by design platform-as-a-service framework.
UBITECH performs an interactive, live demonstration of the ARCADIA Smart Controller (Orchestrator), coming along with a software development paradigm, tackling development, placement and orchestration of highly distributed applications over programmable multi-IaaS infrastructure – in the course of the SME Event and Demonstrations session of Cloud Forward Conference 2016 (held in Madrid, Spain).
Co-authoring a research paper, entitled “Embedding Security and Privacy into the Development and Operation of Cloud Services”, with the Technical University Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, UBITECH participates in the 17th International Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (Networks 2016). Networks 2016 constitutes the 17th edition of a symposium held every two years which attracts participants from all over the world. Network operators, software designers, system integrators, researchers from universities and industry, marketers, regulators and policy-makers convene to present their latest findings and share experiences in network strategy, planning, operations, management, control and design. Networks 2016 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society.
