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PaaSport: New EC co-funded research project on Cloud PaaS markets

UBITECH has participated in the Athens kick-off meeting of the PaaSport research project, officially started on December 1st, 2013. The project is partially funded by European Commission under FP7 Research for SME Associations programme (Grant Agreement No 605193) and runs in the period December 2013-November 2016.

The PaaSport project, fostering the creation of a “semantically-enhanced marketplace of interoperable platform-as-a-service offerings for the deployment and migration of business applications of SMEs”, focuses on resolving the data and application portability issues that exist in the Cloud PaaS market through a flexible and efficient deployment and migration approach.

UBITECH has introduced in PaaSport the concept of “Semantically Interoperable PaaS Solutions”, as Cloud PaaS systems and offerings with the ability to overcome the semantic incompatibilities and communicate, referring to the ability of applications and their data to seamlessly be deployed on and/or migrated between Cloud PaaS offerings that are using the same technological background but different data (information) models and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Moreover, the role of UBITECH in PaaSport aims at the implementation of a set of CAMP-compatible adapters for PaaS platforms that handles mainly the deployment, undeployment, start, stop and migration of an application on a selected PaaS offering. Finally, UBITECH will utilize the corporate Cloud infrastructure, comprised of an openstack and a cloudfoundry deployment, for the support and execution of value-added demonstrators and scenarios proving the business benefits of the PaaSport concepts and tools.

Source: http://paasport-project.eu/