• Overall architecture including the analysis of specific cross-layer topics and information flows based on analysed application, user and technical requirements.
• Container platform innovation with the integration of OpenShift on top of OpenStack, enriched with the Kuryr-Kubernetes as the main OpenShift CNI, with remarkable infrastructure speed up.
• Innovative realization engine, facilitating the registration, configuration, deployment and management of complex containerized applications in Kubernetes-based environments. It provides a standardized mechanism for grouping components into larger conceptual applications and then defining complex multi-stage alteration actions upon them.
• Runtime adaptation sense-think-act system, utilizing resource and data services tracking for intelligent decision making.
• Seamless data-as-a-service enabling data provisioning and access across different data stores, and real-time analysis through full SQL compatibility across stores.
• General availability to 4 IBM commercial services of a leading data skipping technology, addressing also SQL JOINs.
• Process modelling framework with AutoML through process mapping to facilitate the needs of business analysts for high-level workflows.
• Overall framework for dimensioning, providing resource estimates for application and data services considering the workloads and the data operations for each service in a fully automated way.
• Automatic estimation of applications needs by recommending resource configurations based on application and resource features in addition to QoS objectives set by the application owner, reducing the need for 3rd-party benchmarking services to perform this role.
• New BetaRecSys framework for item recommendations. Initially developed for a project use case, but it now open source and further developed in on-going projects (e.g. H2020 INFINITECH).
• Outreach activities including scientific publications, organization of events, contributions to BDVA Innovation Marketplace, interactions with EOSC-DIH to sign a collaboration agreement and definition of an adoption roadmap.
• Exploitation plans by identifying: 21 assets, 3 use cases, 8 MVPs, and groups of results (for joint exploitation), actual exploitation of components (e.g. data skipping, infrastructure management), commercialization paths for several outcomes, filling of 3 patents and concluding a technology transfer action.
• Open source contributions: Spark, Kubernetes, OpenShift Installer, Cluster Network Operator, Cluster API Provider OpenStack, Kuryr-Kubernetes, Kuryr-tempest-plugin, Octavia, Neutron, Gophercloud, Terraform.