Re: [saf] Today's call

[David Snelling <David.Snelling@UK.Fujitsu.com>]

Folks,


On 18 Mar 2010, at 12:01, Stavros.Isaiadis@uk.fujitsu.com wrote:

> We'll see if we have some feedback from Dave from the OCCi meeting.

I will probably miss the call, so ....

There was general interest, but they are working towards a demo in  
collaboration with SNIA's storage cloud API. I think they will be  
finished around the June time frame with that demonstration, so  
approaching them again then might be a good idea.

I also think that most of the folks in the room were not interested in  
the problems of the business layer, focusing mostly on issues within  
the IaaS layer.

In anycase the use case was clear and people liked the overall idea.

>
> We'll discuss use cases again, especially with mapping to DMTF use  
> cases in mind. This is important if we want to push a possible  
> collaboration further. You can find DMTF use cases in the "Cloud  
> Management Interactions" white paper from the Cloud Incubator group - 
> not sure if it's in public domain though.
>
> We'll have a look at the latest iteration of the Charter wording so  
> please have a look (attached below from Paul's email).
>
> And if I have missed something, feel free to add!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stavros
>
>
> Charter Texts
> LATEST ITERATION (lets call it v1.2)
>
> It's hard for different enterprises and domains to work together to  
> in order to understand and respond to their customers needs. SAF  
> provides a collaborative framework that enables diverse enterprises  
> and knowledge domains to address these issues through automation at  
> lower cost and much more effectively.
>
> SAF is a catalog-based, XML collaborative knowledge framework that  
> is designed to address these challenges by automating appropriate  
> responses to changing business conditions, integrating contributions  
> from diverse domains such as marketing, sales, and IT to provide  
> competitive advantage. Note that SAF uses a medical analogy in order  
> to provide an easy-to-understand conceptual foundation that many  
> people understand, nothing more. The SAF framework has applicability  
> to multiple domains including IT, e.g., Cloud computing, service  
> management, governance, and security as well as business domains,  
> e.g., energy, eGovernment, financial, healthcare, and communications.
>
> In Cloud computing, the chasm between the business and IT is  
> significantly widened due to the lack of context between cloud- 
> provider and cloud-consumer. The SAF TC considers Cloud computing to  
> be an area where the value of existing and developing standards  
> could be significantly enhanced using SAF. In SAF, both consumer and  
> provider can collaborate in order to bridge the chasm by enabling  
> business-relevant conditions to enable meaningful business-relevant  
> responses.
>
>
> LAST ITERATION (lets call it v1.1):
>
> IT and business systems are usually well instrumented to provide a  
> wealth of information about the state of these systems. Human  
> experts in narrow, specific IT infrastructure or business system  
> domains possess substantial knowledge to bring remediate problems or  
> bring them back to their desired state. However, there is a  
> significant challenge leveraging this knowledge across these diverse  
> domains.
>
> Current approaches are often manual, expensive, inflexible, and  
> error-prone. Failure to meet this challenge creates lost  
> opportunities to develop new and extend existing business, as well  
> as the possible loss of existing business through 'down time' or  
> lower efficiency. There are also significant operational and  
> business-related costs that can affect an entire organization. Cloud  
> computing and other IT initiatives increase the risk and impact of  
> these challenges.
>
> SAF is a catalog-based, XML knowledge framework that is designed to  
> address these challenges by enabling both problem remediation and  
> optimization of the operational and business characteristics of  
> complex systems. The framework has applicability to both IT domains,  
> e.g., cloud computing, service management, governance, and security  
> as well as non-IT domains, e.g., energy, eGovernment, financial,  
> healthcare, and communications.
>
>
> ORIGINAL FROM THE CHARTER AS IT NOW STANDS (lets call it v1.0):
>
> IT and business systems are usually well instrumented to provide  
> operators and managers with a wealth of information about the state  
> of each of these systems. Experts in these domains also possess  
> substantial toolboxes of remedial techniques to bring these systems  
> and processes back online or to their desired state.
>
> However, there often is a significant challenge in the integration,  
> interpretation, and analysis of this diverse state information  
> followed by the ability to act on that information. Failure to meet  
> this challenge impacts the organization through lost opportunities  
> to develop new and extend existing business, as well as the possible  
> loss of existing business through 'down time' or lower efficiency.  
> The continued drain on business and IT resources also impacts the  
> overall operational and business-related costs of the organization.
>
> The aim of the Symptoms Automation Framework is to integrate  
> information and processes across the organization and/or cloud- 
> enabled services in a more holistic way by defining, enhancing, and  
> maintaining a standard XML-based framework that will enable the  
> collection, detection, isolation, and remediation/optimization of  
> the operational or business characteristics of complex systems with  
> applicability to both IT and non-IT domains including operational  
> and service management, governance, and security.

Take care:

     Dr. David Snelling < David . Snelling . UK . Fujitsu . com >
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