The Server Labs will reform the architecture of BBVA’s corporate security application

The Server Labs has been chosen by BBVA to develop a completely revised version of its corporate security application Faro in order to unify and streamline the application throughout all countries in which BBVA operates. Click here.

BBVA designs its new continuous integration and quality environment employing The Server Labs Enterprise Development Platform

The Server Labs has implemented BBVA’s pilot development architecture based on The Server Labs Enterprise Development Platform (Cloud version). Beyond the obvious benefits of enhanced quality and productivity ... Click here to read the full article

The Server Labs participates in ESAW

The Server Labs has contributed actively with a technical presentation and the creation of a large-scale poster explaining the application of Cloud computing to Ground System Architectures.
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The Server Labs’ Enterprise Development Platform is now available in the Cloud

Having already been employed successfully by numerous companies running on their very own infrastructures, the platform can now run in the public Cloud. Click here.

EUMETSAT chooses The Server Labs to assess running its MTG programme in the Cloud

The Server Labs has been tasked to perform a feasibility study to analyse the possibility to drive EUMETSAT’s MTG (Meteosat Third Generation) programme ...
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Case Study: CNIO’s cancer research gains speed in the Cloud

The Server Labs have undertaken a comprehensive feasibility study to identify how to shift CNIO’s ever-increasing data processing requirement to the public cloud. Access the full version of the case study here.

The Server Labs collaborates with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Server Labs is acting as corporate host in the MIT-Spain...

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Cloud Architectures

“The Gaia AGIS Cloud experiment has been very successful for us. It indicates that bringing the data processing to The Cloud can provide us with savings of up 50% compared to using in house hardware. An additional advantage is that it gives us the ability to scale to far more processors that we could have in house which means essentially that we can finish the job sooner”

William O’Mullane, Gaia Science Operations Development Manager, European Space Agency

Cloud Architectures refers to the design and development of software architectures that make effective use of the cloud services. Applications that are built on Cloud Architectures are those that:

Optimally perform the tasks to fulfill the business need.

Only use the underlying computing infrastructure when needed.

Scale based on current demands, assigning and provisioning/de-provisioning servers and storage as needed.

Cloud Architectures can be private (hosted within an organization’s firewall) or public (hosted on the Internet such as Amazon EC2/S3). These characteristics lead to a set of core value benefits:

Scalability on Demand: All organizations have to deal with changes in their IT environments. The ability of Cloud Computing solutions to scale up and down is a major benefit (hundreds of images running in minutes). Organizations have periods of time in which their computing resource needs are much higher or lower than normal, cloud technologies (both private and public) can deal with those changes. This is the elasticity of Cloud Computing.

Streamlining the Data Center: Organizations of any size will have a substantial investment in their data centers. This includes buying and maintaining the hardware and software, providing the facilities in which the hardware is housed and hiring the personnel who keep the data center running. Organizations can streamline its data center by taking advantage of cloud technologies internally or by offloading workload into the public Clouds.

Improving Business Processes: Organizations and their suppliers and partners can share data and applications in the cloud, allowing everyone involved to focus on the business process instead of the infrastructure that hosts it.

Minimizing Start-up Costs: For companies that are just starting out, organizations in emerging markets, or even “Skunk Works” groups in larger organizations, Cloud Computing greatly reduces start-up costs. The new organization starts with an infrastructure already in place, so the time and other resources that would be spent on building a data center are borne by the cloud provider, whether the cloud is private or public.

Potential for shrinking the processing time: Depending of the scenario, parallelization can be optimally used and be cost-effective in compute-intensive or data-intensive jobs in order to drastically reduce the amount of time used to execute it.

Las Arquitecturas Cloud pueden ser privadas (dentro de la propia organización) or públicas (en Internet como Amazon EC2/S3). Estas características traen consigo toda una serie de beneficios básicos:

Escalabilidad bajo demanda: Todas las organización tienen que lidiar con cambios en sus entornos de TI. La habilidad de soluciones basadas Cloud Computing de escalar en ambas direcciones es un enorme beneficio (cientos de maquinas corriendo en minutos). Las organizaciones tiene periodos de tiempo donde sus necesidades de recursos son mayores o menores de lo normal, demanda que puede ser gestionada a través de tecnologías de cloud (tanto públicas como privadas). Esto es lo que se denomina elasticidad del Cloud Computing.

Racionalizar el uso del CPD: Organizaciones de cualquier tamaño poseen una inversión considerable en sus CPDs. Esto incluye comprar y mantener el hardware y software, ofreciendo la infraestructura en la que el hardware es almacenado y el personal para mantenerlo funcionando. Se puede racionalizar los CPD haciendo uso de tecnologías cloud de forma interna o externalizando carga de trabajo a Clouds públicas.

Mejore de los Procesos de Negocio: Organizaciones y sus proveedores y partners pueden compartir datos y aplicaciones en el Cloud, permitiendo a todos los involucrados focalizar sus esfuerzos en el proceso de negocio en vez de la infraestructura que lo mantiene.

Minimizar Costes de Arranque: Para compañías que están comenzando, en mercados emergentes o incluso en grupos “Skunk Works” en grandes organizaciones, Cloud Computing reduce enormemente los costes de arranque. Nuevas organizaciones arrancan con la infraestructura ya disponible, de tal manera que el tiempo y recursos normalmente malgastados en construir un CPD son tomados por el proveedor del Cloud, tanto si el cloud es público como privado.

Disponibilidad potencial de reducción del tiempo de procesamiento: Dependiendo del escenario, el uso de la paralelización puede ser utilizado de manera óptima y de forma rentable en procesos intensivos de datos o cpu para reducir drásticamente el tiempo necesario para ejecutarlas.