WWW.IDAIRELAN.COM research projects are carried out for


individual companies and the results are exclusively licensed to those companies in return for proprietary access to the research results generated. Many of these companies come to us with an Innovation Voucher or work with us though the


Innovation


Partnership Programme. These programmes, run by Enterprise Ireland, support companies to conduct research for growth. Further to this, IC4 runs multiple


Joan Mulvihill, Centre Director, Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce


interoperability, portability and migration to the cloud; Service Lifecycle, including service delivery, service levels for a quality cloud service and cloud service level assessment; Business Research, including business and organisational models, regulations for cloud services and cloud as a competitive advantage, and finally, Cloud Security, including scalable and single/multi-tenant environments, data transfer in the cloud, mobile and security in the cloud, and risk management and disaster recovery. As the centre is industry-led, these four themes are deemed of equal and critical importance by the centre’s industry members.


OUR PROJECTS IC4


projects each year which reflect the centre’s four


conducts core


research themes. These


projects are conducted with the centre’s three research principles in mind: design for growth, design for best service provision and design for widest acceptance. Our design for growth aims to accelerate the development and adoption of cloud technologies by Irish organisations and to showcase


Ireland’s capabilities in cloud


technology. With a design for best service provision, we develop recommendations, guidelines and innovative approaches to increase reliability and resilience for cloud computing


services


technologies. Finally, by design for widest acceptance


enterprise we


demonstrate


adoption of cloud innovative


application of security tools to support secure transfers of data between different cloud environments and develop standardised approaches and methods to ensure data integrity and security when using mobile devices with cloud computing. As well as conducting core research on a


non-exclusive royalty free (NERF) basis, IC4 also works with a number of companies on targeted research projects. These targeted


and develop


recommendations, guidelines and tools to support


numerous core


research core


conferences and industry focused events each year. Our annual showcase, the National Conference for Cloud Computing (NC4) is attended by over 400 people each year and brings speakers from all over the world to Dublin City University to discuss all aspects of cloud computing, from cybersecurity and the Internet of Things to analytics and HPC in the cloud. Over the past year, IC4 has hosted quarterly symposiums on financial services and financial technologies (FinTech). The most recent of these examined the role big data plays in FinTech with speakers from both academia and industry sharing their experiences.


EU PROJECTS In addition to our current core and targeted research projects,


IC4 participates in a


number of Horizon 2020 projects. These EU funded ventures include CloudLightning


countries, including the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas in Greece, Maxeler Technologies in the UK and Intel in Ireland, among others. As part of the project, IC4 researchers will


help build a prototype of this new, more energy-efficient


cloud service


demonstrate through use cases how it will apply to businesses. They also aim to show that it will be a scalable solution as we move towards hyper-scale


technology such as this as part of a Horizon 2020 project, focuses on allowing SMEs in Europe


to avail of the latest


technologies so as to enable differentiate marketplace.


themselves in the cloud


them to global


RECAP RECAP is a Horizon 2020 project that IC4 is a partner on, along with researchers and industry partners from eight


other


organisations in Sweden, Spain, the UK and Germany. This project aims to address some of the issues associated with current cloud computing services such as latency, demand spikes and the huge power consumption of current data centres. The project started in January this year


and will run until early 2020, by then it is hoped that they will have developed the next generation of cloud, edge and fog computing


ultimately drive cost savings which can be passed onto the consumer.”


which aims to produce new self-organising and self-managing cloud services and is scheduled to finish early next year, and RECAP, the Reliable Capacity Provision and Enhanced Remediation for Cloud Applications which started in early 2017.


HORIZON 2020 – CLOUDLIGHTNING CloudLightning aims to produce new self- organising and self-managing cloud services. This new cloud service will seek to address the cost and energy inefficiencies of current cloud services so that they use less resources. This will ultimately drive cost savings which can be passed onto the consumer. As a Horizon 2020 project, CloudLightning is a partnership between universities and industry partners in five different EU


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capacity provisioning via targeted research advances in cloud infrastructure optimisation,


simulation and automation.


RECAP will ensure that communication critical applications will always achieve their goals without unnecessary delays, no matter where they are located. Commenting on the future of IC4, Joan


Mulvihill Centre Director said, “Our member companies are a key driver of the success of IC4 as a centre of excellence in cloud research and development. As an industry-led centre, we welcome


the


opportunity to work closely with member companies in identifying areas of investigation so as to optimise our impact for that business and industry as a whole.” ic4.ie


“CloudLightning will seek to address the cost and energy inefficiencies of current cloud services... this will


and cloud. Developing


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