Christoph Reich, Head of IT at Hochschule Furtwangen University, will be presenting at SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe in Prague, Czech Republic this coming May 18-19 2009.

To harness the potentials of Cloud Computing to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), the university establishes a new Cloud Computing project, called Cloud Infrastructure and Application (CloudIA). The CloudIA project is a market-oriented infrastructure that leverages different VM technologies and supports Service-Level Agreement (SLA) as PaaS and IaaS models. Several unique offerings of CloudIA are overbooking of physical hardware to run more VMs, Single-Sign-On using Shibboleth for external applications, such as Google Apps and Online Learning And Training (OLAT), and creating personalized VMs and service containers on-demand. Therefore, the CloudIA project offers better resource utilization and helps SME to increase productivity and reduce IT costs.

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Speaker Bio
Christoph Reich is the head of the IT and e-learning departments in the Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU). In addition he is the director of the Cloud Research Lab at HFU. Finally, he is one of the board members of the RZ Leiter Baden-Wuerttemberg.

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