We are a Research team located in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
Our mission is to simplify deployment and configuration of distributed applications in distributed environments.
We believe virtualization technologies (such as VMWARE and XEN) offers a unique opportunity to significantly reduce the configuration complexity by allowing to capture (freeze) complete software stacks.
However, there are multiple challenges yet to be addresses to allow fulfilling the potential.
First, proliferation leads to sprawl.
Second, capturing complete software stack in an image, still does not solve the cross-image configuration necessary for distributed solution composition.
We develop technology to augment image with semantic knowledge necessary to enable building solutions of image building blocks.
Before our transition to the area of virtualization, we were busy collaborating with Rational on the co-development of the Deployment Modeling platform - view video in YouTube.
The following list of papers describe this work:
- W. Arnold, T. Eilam, M. Kalantar, A. V. Konstantinou, A. A. Totok. Automatic Realization of SOA Deployment Patterns in Distributed Environments, ICSOC 2008, Sydney, Australia, December 2008.
- W. Arnold, T. Eilam, M. Kalantar, A. V. Konstantinou, A. A. Totok. Pattern Based SOA Deployment, ICSOC 2007, Vienna, Austria, September 2007 (Best Paper Award).
- K. El Maghraoui, T. Eilam, M. Kalantar, A. V. Konstantinou. Model Driven Provisioning: Bridging the Gap Between Declarative Object Models and Procedural Provisioning Tools, Middleware 2006, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006.
- T. Eilam, M. Kalantar, A. V. Konstantinou, G. Pacifici. Reducing the complexity of application deployment in large data centers, IEEE IM'2005, May 15, 2005.
- T. Eilam, M. Kalantar, A. V. Konstantinou, G. Pacifici, J. Pershing, A. Agrawal. Managing the configuration complexity of distributed applications in Internet data centers. IEEE Communications Magazine, March 2006.
