UbuntuNet-Connect 2015 Conference Papers and Presentations

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Browsing UbuntuNet-Connect 2015 Conference Papers and Presentations by Author "De Oliveira Guimarães, Leandro Marcos"

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    MAGIC: A Collaboration Project to Globally Connect Researchers and Academics
    (2015-11) De Oliveira Guimarães, Leandro Marcos; López, María José
    Building on the success of the ELCIRA project, RedCLARA - with partners from Latin America, Europe, the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Central Asia and Asia-Pacific is leading MAGIC (Middleware for collaborative Applications and Global vIrtual Communities), a cooperation project that aims to significantly improve the ability of researchers and academics around the world to collaborate together. MAGIC might be the first really global collaborative project in the REN environment. But which are the benefits of the project to its partner institutions’ (UbuntuNet and WACREN) members? How can the African researchers and academics benefit from MAGIC? By fostering and easing collaboration and mobility, MAGIC is fostering intra-regional and global collaboration, helping to reduce the technological gap, and as a consequence, in the long term, to reduce the brain drain.
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    Structuring and Implementing the Brazilian Academic Cloud: Strategy, Modelling, Challenges and Services
    (2015-11) Ribeiro Filho, José Luiz; Nunes, Antônio Carlos Fernandes; Nobuyoshi Dos Santos Makino, Ricardo; Barreto Araújo, Gorgonio; Machado Leopoldino Martins, Graciela; De Oliveira Guimarães, Leandro Marcos
    This paper presents an overview of the strategies currently adopted by some National Research and Education Networks (NREN) to implement and offer scientific cloud computing services. It describes the constraints, opportunities and the strategy chosen by the Brazilian NREN – Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP) to plan, deploy and operate cloud services to and in collaboration with Brazilian public universities and research institutes. The hybrid, community and federated strategy was chosen as the most flexible and suitable for the current Brazilian NREN operation and funding models. It describes the cloud services that are in production or in a pilot phase, their status and next steps planned. Cloud service planning, deployment and operation are discussed, the alternatives considered and the chosen options. At the end, the cloud services deployed by RNP are presented and discussed, considering the technologies and benefits to the academic community in Brazil.