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Contrail WP16 D16.2 Exploitation and Technology Transfer

Questionnaire B Market requirements and analysis

Thank you for completing this questionnaire. The Contrail project team appreciate you committing

your time and your feedback.

The Contrail project (http://contrail-project.eu/) is an 11.29m FP7 project with 11 consortium

partners from various countries within the EU to develop the next generation cloud computing open

source operating system. Along with the current advantages of cloud computing, the new

technology will deliver additional benefits such as federation, enhanced security and easy to use and

comprehensive SLAs.

The questionnaire is part of the Exploitation and Technology Transfer work package and the

information gathered will be used to deliver a better solution

1 Information on the person/company completing the questionnaireDate

Name of contact Contrail institutions (if

known)

Name of person completing

questionnaire (voluntary)

Name of company

Business/sector of company

Short description of company (academic

institution, large company, small

company, public sector, etc). What do

they do etc

Relationship of Contrail partner & person

completing questionnaire (if any)

Other relevant points

2 Market analysisa. Main questions

i. Do you use the cloud now? How?ii. How will use it in the future?

Do you use the Cloud at the moment? Yes/no

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If Yes, what do you use it for? What

applications, types of jobs, size of jobs),

How do you use it? (is it a group policy decision,

are individual users allowed/encouraged to use

it, do you use it a lot?)

Which cloud are you using? Amazon (AWS)

Azure

IBM

Google

Rightscale

GoGrid

Nimbus

Openstack

Rackspace

Local ones?

Others?

Are you familiar with cloud technologies? If so,

do you know which ones you are using or have

considered

Eucalyptus

Open Nebula

Globus

Nimbus

Local ones?

Others?

Why are you using these clouds and not the

others?

What are your future plans (in next 1-3 years)?

Are you going to increase the use of cloud in

your business?

What do you think you will be doing on the

cloud in 3 5 years time?

3 Specific market/customer requirementsa. Contrail is a project under the FP7 Internet of Services programme (http://contrail-

project.eu).

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Have you heard of it? Yes (how)

No

If yes, what do you know of it?

Have you heard of any other project/service

doing the same thing? If so what?

Marks 1 to 5 (1 least important; 5 most

important). Try to encourage a variety of

scores (i.e. not everything gets 5. There

should be a few 1 or2s if possible to add

relative strength in these features

Security - marks 1 to 5 in importance Security 1 2 3 4 5

Security why is important (what data are you

trying to protect from whom)?

Security what security standards do you

require (your own or world standards)?

What type/size of data do you store?

What is your experience in this area?

Good/bad?

Security how do you think that your current

position might change in the future?

Security Other comments, if any?

Costs - marks 1 to 5 in importance (5 most

important)

Costs 1 2 3 4 5

Costs Is the lowest cost the most important

criteria?

Costs How do you measure costs? At a simple

level or at a total cost of ownership level?

What is your experience in this area?Good/bad?

Costs how do you think that you current view

of costs might change in the future

Costs other comments, if any?

Scalability - marks 1 to 5 in importance (5 most

important)

Scalability 1 2 3 4 5

Do you need scalability? How big are your jobs?

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Data or computation?

How long do you need scalability for?

Is network broadband an issue for your

tasks/jobs/data?

What is your experience in this area?

Good/bad?

Scalability - how do you think that you current

view of infrastructure might change in the

future

Scalability other comments, if any?

Federation (the ability to move jobs from one

cloud to another cloud) marks 1 to 5 in

importance (5 most important)

Federation 1 2 3 4 5

Federation is this of interest to you now?

Why? What does see at the benefits?

What is your experience in this area?

Good/bad? Why?

Federation - how do you think that you currentview of federation might change in the future

Federation other comments, if any?

Location of work/data (does it matter where

you work is performed?) - marks 1 to 5 in

importance (5 most important)

Location of work 1 2 3 4 5

In what way is location important? Does it have

to be in the same company, region, country,

continent (within EU)?

What is your experience in this area?

Good/bad? Why?

Location - how do you think that you current

view of location might change in the future

Location other comments, if any?

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Performance - - marks 1 to 5 in importance (5

most important)

Speed 1 2 3 4 5

Performance how do you measure

performance (speed, accuracy, security, other)?

Performance Is this better on the cloud than

using your old infrastructure?

What is your experience in this area?

Good/bad? Why?

Performance - how do you think that you

current view of performance might change in

the future?

Performance other comments, if any?

Ease of use - marks 1 to 5 in importance (5 most

important)

Ease of use 1 2 3 4 5

What is your experience in this area?

Good/bad? Why?

Ease of use how do you define this? Do you

have expert/non-expert users?

Ease of use - how do you think that you current

view of ease of use might change in the

future

Ease of use other comments, if any?

Infrastructure - marks 1 to 5 in importance (5

most important)

Infrastructure type 1 2 3 4 5

In what way is this important are you

interested in certain types of processors, certain

sizes of memory, etc

What sorts of jobs are you doing on the cloud to

require this specific infrastructure?

What is your experience in this area?

Good/bad? Why?

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Infrastructure - how do you think that you

current view of infrastructure might change in

the future

Infrastructure other comments, if any?

Others might be Redundancy

Adherence to standards

Other 1 (in case they mention another feature

that is not mentioned above)

Other 1 1 2 3 4 5

Other 2 (in case they mention another feature

that is not mentioned above)

Other 2 1 2 3 4 5