Daniel FieldAtos Origin

Daniel FieldAtos Origin

Overview

• What is Gridipedia?• Contributing to Gridipedia• Promotion of Gridipedia• Grid Voices: Blogging about Grids and cloud• The Future of Gridipedia: Sustainability• Next Steps

What is Gridipedia?

BREINTrustCOM

SLA@SOI

GridSystemsDataSynapse

3Tera

MULTIMEDIA FIMLS

What Is Gridipedia?NEWS* &

ANNOUNCEMENTS

TECH INFORMATION

SOFTWARE COMP /SOLUTIONS

BEST PRACTISES

BUSINESS REPORTS

IT CONSULTANCY

CASE STUDIES

What is Gridipedia?

Gridipedia Offerings• What is the Grid?• What is the Cloud?• A History of Grid• Overview of middleware• Grid computing glossary• Publications

Gridipedia is more

• Technical Solutions• Downloadable SW Components• Design patterns• Best practice guidelines

• Business Aspects• Market analysis• Business case• Success Stories

But, Gridipedia is more than just an information site

Open to contributions▪ Market software solutions▪ Promote success stories

Requirement : Technical Merit and Sound Business Case

No restriction on licensing choice

Gridipedia is more

Contributing to Gridipedia

New Associate

membership coming

soon!

Promoting Gridipedia

• Improving content of articles, and new contributions• New thematic areas, cloud computing, green IT, • Google-friendly• Grid Voices blog• Attending events, stands and workshops• Press releases• Articles• Paid keyword advertising• Word of mouth• …• …

Professional marketing

campaign underway!

Google AdsBanner campaign

Social media

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Grid Voices

• A regular blog from recognised members of the European Grid and Cloud research community

• Stefan Wesner - HLRS• Santi Ristol - Atos Origin• Dora Varvarigou - NTUA • Craig Lee - OGF• Mark Parsons – EPCC• Rosa M Badia - BSC • Csilla Zsigri - The 451 Group• Adrian Mouat – EPCC• Avner Algom - IGT

www.gridipedia.eu/grid_voices.html

Get involved!

STEP 1 Background

analysis

STEP 2Definition of Gridipedia

STEP 5 Transfer

Gridipedia to the

owner(s)

The Future of Gridipedia

Jan’08 Apr’09Sep8

STEP 3aBusiness

model (scenarios)

STEP 3bImprove current

Gridipedia

STEP 4Find an

owner(s) & work out a Business

Plan

STEP 6 Set-up new

infrastructure

1st workshop & cross team

Feb’08

2nd workshop

May’08

On-going redesign

(Act5) Marketing & Tech transfer

(wp63)

Nov’08

IdentifiyownerBiz plan

Sustainability plan

Agreement

Sep’09

Associate members

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Ad hoc

Increasing prominence of

content

Increasing commitment

Associatemembers

with regular contributions

Membership is open!

CloudVirtualization

GridSOA

Case StudiesBusiness benefits

Market trendsCompany profilesProduct analysis

Insider perspective

Videos

Contributions

Analyst reports

Software componentsDesign patterns

Next Steps

• Increase content from the BEinGRID project• Improve access to content in Gridipedia• Launch the new look and feel• Step up the communication plan• Finalise the plans for sustainability

Content vs Container & Owners

GRIDIPEDIA REPOSITORY

Act 1 Software / Tech reports

Act 2 Biz Reports / Consultancy

CONTENTS

BE Solutions

Links, Films, External contributions

Content Owners A, B, C …

Gridipedia Owner(s)

Step 1: Benchmarking• What does already exist in the market ? • Other sites overview / competitors? • Revenue model (if any) ?

Suppliers of Grid . *

Documents

Marketplace

Community

News…