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Ivan DjordjevicSenior Architect, BT Security Research
ivan.djordjevic@bt.com
Virtual Hosting Environment for Distributed On-line Gaming
OGF20, Manchester, UK, 9th May 2007
Business Experiments in GRID2
Presentation Outline
• BEinGRID project overview
• Business pilot overview:
– Motivation
– Architecture
– Business Potential
Project Overview
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Business Experiments in GRID4
Project Data Sheet
• Type of project: Integrated Project• Project coordinator: ATOS ORIGIN• Project start date*: 1st June 2006• Duration: 42 months• Max EC contribution: 15.7 M euros• Consortium: 75 partners
The mission of BEinGRID is to exploit European Grid middleware by creating a toolset repository of Grid services from across the Grid
research domain and to use these services to deliver a set of successful business experiments that stimulate the early adoption of Grid
technologies across the European Union.
Business Experiments in GRID5
BEinGRID Vision
• Typical Technology Transfer project:– 2 waves of Business Experiments involving SMEs in
various industry sectors and covering full value chain
– Aiming to prove that businesses will benefit from th e adoption of Grid technologies
– Planning to set up a repository of vertical Grid solutions, available free/at cost to the respective sectors
– Cross-activities for support to the business experimen ts
Business Experiments in GRID6
Project Setup
Technical cross
activities
Trust & Security
VO Management
Service & Data Mgt
Architecture & Interop
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Selected branches: GTv4, UNICORE/GS, g-Lite, GRIA, WS-*
Business cross
activities
Dissem. & Exploitation
Market Study
Business Modelling...
Mdw-1 Mdw -2 Mdw -n
BE1 BE2 BE3
...
BE4 BE5 BE18
Repository
Pilot overview:Virtual Hosting Environment
Business Experiments in GRID8
Overview
• What - Distributed application hosting environment:– Application as a managed service:
• Separation of access to different application servi ces at a Host Provider
• Provision, management and control of the applicatio n service stays with ASP
• Outsource deployment and security management to Inf rastructure Provider
– Assessment Pilot - Internet-based gaming: interactiv e, multi-player, high-performance.
• How - Grid and Web Services technologies for:– Virtualisation of hosting environment for flexible deployment
– Standard interoperable infrastructure services for security management
– Input from EU R&D projects (GRASP, TrustCoM, NextGr id, ELeGI)
• When - September 2006 – February 2008 (18 months)
• Who - Andago, AtosOrigin, BT, CRMPA
Business Experiments in GRID9
Gaming scenario: Current status
portal
MyGame
HE
HE Dedicated game servers
User management & billing server
• Characteristics:
– Static , dedicated game servers
– Extreme peaks & lows in
demand, due to:
• Time / day
• Current gaming activity
– Low utilization -> high HW cost
• Challenges:– Meet low latency requirements
– Make available high-performance servers for game ex ecution
– Improve interactivity in multi-player games
– Utilize advanced statistics and user community mana gement capabilities, offered by different gaming pl atforms
• Need for dynamic adaptation of the gaming environme nt:• On-demand “hp” provision of gaming servers
• Latency-based QoS server selection
Business Experiments in GRID10
VHE
Gaming scenario: the Vision
portal
MyGame
ASP3
ASP1
ASP2
Pool of Infrastructure
ServicesHE1
HE2
HE3
B2BMessaging
Layer
NetworkInfrastructure
Provider(s)
Business Experiments in GRID11
Use cases and dependencies
VO Configuration
App Virtualisationon the VHE
Application instancemonitoring
VO DissolutionDe-Federation
VHE Setup
FederationSetup
Combine capabilities to match service description.Separation of application & infrastructure capabili ties
Create B2B trusted relationships between participan ts.
Select partners and negotiate agreements
Service execution
Provide service instance for an end user
Remove trusted relationships.
Delete VO information, destroy configurations.Preserve historic data
End UserRegistration
User registration & joining different gaming communities/clans.
New game deployment
Game start
Game execution
Low latency = high number of players
Business Experiments in GRID12
VOpartners
High-level Architecture
Admin Location & Discovery Service
Licensing siteLicensing site
Licensing siteLicensing site
Licensing siteLicensing site
Federation & VO Management
Hosting
Environment:
•Application services
•Host & app monitoring
Virtualisation Service
Policies & SLA
Security Token Service
Policy Decision Point
STS Auth-PDP BPEng
PEP(sec)
WSvirtualisation
XML messaging
message / service bus
STS Auth-PDP BPEng
PEP(sec)
WSvirtualisation
XML messaging
message / service bus
Deployment Service
Policy Enforcement Point
Configure & Instantiate
Enforce & Run
Configure
Client
B2B gateway
Business Experiments in GRID13
Game Platform Provider
Messaging Bus
Business Opportunity
B2B GW
B2B GW
B2B GW
Gaming Servers
Gaming Servers
B2B GW
B2B GW Game
Application Provider
Users
Virtual Hosting
Environment
Community Management
System
Business Experiments in GRID14
Business Case:B2B Security Gateway
• SOA & WS open standards–based security service
• Key offerings:– Protect valuable assets inside and across enterpris es
– Easily establish and manage security of B2B collabo rations
– Configure and securely virtualize application servic es, IT resources, user accounts, ...
– Automatically adapt security in response to context ual changes
– Clear distinction between service-level security an d application logic
• Deployment options:– In a box: next generation application-layer firewal l
– At the service endpoint and/or the SOA execution pl atform
– Network hosted security service
• Applicability to a range of sectors:– Gaming
– Corporate Resource Planning and Adaptation (e.g. ca ll centres)
– e-Education and Collaborative Processes
Business Experiments in GRID15
Market potential …
• A SOA web services security appliance “enabled a major financial services firm to slash the time required to implement new Web services
connections from 99 days to less than one day, reducedsalaried support costs from $40K to $4K per month, enabled it
to realize over a 10x annual increase in Web services revenue.” GRIDtoday
• Worldwide WSS/content gateway sales “grew 8% between Q1 and
Q2 of 2006, reaching $270 million, and are forecast t o grow 43% by the Q2 of 2007. Annual worldwide sales are expected to hit$2.3 billion in 2009“ Infonetics, 2006
Business Experiments in GRID16
… and competition
• XML & Web Service Security gateway products: Forum Systems, Layer7, IBM Datapower, Intel Sarvega, Reactivity, V ordel.
• B2B gateways: Axway, webMethods, Inovis, Microsoft, Extol, IBM, Oracle, GXS, iSoft, Sun Microsystems, Tibco Software , Click Commerce, iWay Software ( all above $10mil annual revenue from B2B software)
There are no WSS security gateways in the market that have integrated advanced value-add services for federation, identity management and B2B collaboration management.
There are no B2B WSS security gateways in the market provided as network-hosted common capabilities
Business Experiments in GRID17
Business value
• Efficiency:– More efficient software management and deployment: significant cost reduction in the resources spent
for deployment– Cost saving for application hosting due to better s calability and interoperability, sustainable, long- term
and linear cost savings– Simplicity / Ease of use, due to a common managemen t layer
• Effectiveness:– Increased flexibility - separation of provisioning & management of application and infrastructure
services– Ability to quickly adapt to change - membership, sec urity policies, SLAs
• Business Edge:– High flexibility of security, infrastructure, and m embership management of the VO– Improved confidence (e.g. for sharing critical reso urces) due to traceable end-to-end security process– Improved trust & confidence and CRM due to QoS-base d service offerings (SLA negotiation &
monitoring)– Provision of security and federation / VO services leveraging existing network infrastructure: added
value for Infrastructure Providers– Better resource utilization and flexible pricing mo dels for Hosting Environment Providers– Provides added value for ASPs through:
• Reduced time to market (flexibility in service depl oyment and adaptation)• Outsourcing of non-operational and infrastructure s ervices• Reduced downtime of service availability
Business Experiments in GRID18
Dependencies and risks
• Partly depends on uptake of Web services technology and SOA for B2B
• High-growing market, with still developing standard s
• Current WSS security gateway vendors are innovative SMEs
• Well established web services companies are enteri ng this market, including
major middleware vendor corporations who acquire WS S SME vendors
• BT may be a new entrant in the market but can lever age on its existing
penetration of service integration and of converged ICT services
Conclusions
Business Experiments in GRID20
Summary
BEinGRID:
• Promotes uptake of Grid technologies by European bu sinesses
• Three main aspects:– 18+7 Business Experiments, each with its business m odel
– A repository of high-level services, motivated by t he BEs
– Technical and Business Cross Activities, supporting the BEs and filling the repository
Virtual Hosting Environment:
• Flexible middleware infrastructure for cross-enterp rise collaborations, to support different business models and range of s ectors
• B2B GW identified as business case
• Expected outcome - Grid enabled game platform:– Multiple, “on demand” game servers
– SLA-based resource selection
– Service Virtualisation over federated trust domain
Contact:Ivan Djordjevic { ivan.djordjevic@bt.com }
Thank you
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