Call for Papers (pdf version )

The End-to-end Virtualization and Grid Management (EVGM) workshop has been recently founded with a view to dealing with the very topical subject of managing virtualized resources in distributed environments, including resources that are dispersed geographically and/or administratively. The workshop is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). The 2nd EVGM workshop will be held September 24, 2008 on the Island of Samos, Greece, as part of the 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services (MANWEEK 2008).


Scope

Virtualization is an emerging trend that refers to an abstraction of computing resources in a way that makes physical computing resources (e.g., processors, storage, connectivity) totally transparent to other systems, applications, as well as end-users that interact with these resources. In a virtualized environment multiple distributed resources are federated and appear a single logical resource. State of the art virtualization deployments facilitate enterprises in aggregating, configuring and managing enterprise resources in a cost-effective fashion. Nevertheless, these deployments focus on relatively homogeneous environments (e.g., environments comprising single vendor resources) and selected types of computing resources. End-to-end (E2E) virtualization solutions aim at extending the benefits of virtualization in larger scale environments spanning multiple heterogeneous resources across geographical and administrative boundaries. Grid computing technologies provide a foundation for achieving end-to-end virtualization of a multitude of computing resources that are dispersed both administratively and geographically. Grid computing technologies were initially inspired in the academic world, as a means to ease the task of collectively coordinating and controlling distributed computing and communication resources. Grid technologies are nowadays considered important in the enterprise world as well, since enterprises are seeking innovative and cost-effective ways to manage virtualized IT infrastructures. End-to-End virtualization can alleviate problems and limitations stemming from the current isolated “islands of computation”, which include underutilization of resources, limited scalability and availability, fragmentation of security, as well as escalating costs. In this context EVGM 2008 is titled ‘Managing Virtualized Infrastructures: Wire-Once and Provision Resources on Demand’ and focuses on novel tools and techniques, as well as experiences associated with the E2E management of dispersed virtualized IT infrastructures. The scope of the workshop includes configuration management techniques, fault management solutions, performance management in virtualized environment, schemes for unified security management, as well as corporate policies for virtualized infrastructures (including policies for assigning resources to projects or applications). Issues relating to the financial models and techno-economic assessment of the benefits of E2E virtualization are also relevant to the workshop. Furthermore, case studies and reports from realistic experiences and deployments are expected to reinforce the value of the workshop for engineers and practitioners, The organizers of EVGM 2008 envisage a balance between academic and industrial participation. Topics of interest for EVGM2008 include but are not limited to:


PAPER SUBMISSION

Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to EVGM 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to EVGM 2008. Authors submitting to EVGM 2008 must be aware of the fact that each co-author must have tangible and essential contribution to the research/scientific work. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS format:

Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions.


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