IBM Brasil was awarded by FINEP (Financier of Studies and Projects of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation) with R$ 5.7 million to develop a technology to manage resources in the Cloud more efficiently and in real time. The contract lasts for three years for the creation of the base system, optimizations and testing. In addition to the IBM Brazil research laboratory team, there will be collaboration from Brazilian and foreign universities, with the aim of maximizing knowledge and the platform to be developed.
As a result of the TI Maior public notice, which aims to encourage the development of software and technology products in Brazil, the amount will be directed to the project that will create dynamic software with management autonomy so that small, medium and large companies can properly use the cloud potential according to your demand and mission.
According to Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto, researcher at the IBM Brazil research laboratory, the idea is to develop a platform that dynamically balances specialized and traditional resources, according to the company's demand in real time. “One of the big differentiators is that users will be able to specify business objectives and financial constraints, and the platform will automatically manage resources according to these factors. Without the platform, companies have to spend more to access high-performance and specialized resources unnecessarily. Choosing resources is a difficult task, but automating this choice taking into account business objectives and costs will be a great differentiator”, says Marco.
The technology can benefit companies of all sizes, universities and government agencies, helping them in critical moments of demand, especially during peak access times. “This technology can help several sensitive segments in the country, such as agriculture, health, finance, city administration, education, among other industries”, he explains.
There are several applications for this solution that can benefit cities and businesses, as in the case, for example, of a company that wants to provide a transport management service in the cloud, which provides customized routes to users according to their preferences and activities. This service could run on a set of traditional virtual machines. But, assuming that some unexpected event happens in a region and that it is necessary to make a fast processing of the routes of all the people affected by this, this processing could be done, in an agile way, by specialized machines to meet this type of emergency demand. “The company registers its business objectives and financial constraints, and with this information, the platform we will develop would automatically determine if it would be possible or worthwhile to use these resources”, says Marco.
As a result of the TI Maior public notice, which aims to encourage the development of software and technology products in Brazil, the amount will be directed to the project that will create dynamic software with management autonomy so that small, medium and large companies can properly use the cloud potential according to your demand and mission.
According to Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto, researcher at the IBM Brazil research laboratory, the idea is to develop a platform that dynamically balances specialized and traditional resources, according to the company's demand in real time. “One of the big differentiators is that users will be able to specify business objectives and financial constraints, and the platform will automatically manage resources according to these factors. Without the platform, companies have to spend more to access high-performance and specialized resources unnecessarily. Choosing resources is a difficult task, but automating this choice taking into account business objectives and costs will be a great differentiator”, says Marco.
The technology can benefit companies of all sizes, universities and government agencies, helping them in critical moments of demand, especially during peak access times. “This technology can help several sensitive segments in the country, such as agriculture, health, finance, city administration, education, among other industries”, he explains.
There are several applications for this solution that can benefit cities and businesses, as in the case, for example, of a company that wants to provide a transport management service in the cloud, which provides customized routes to users according to their preferences and activities. This service could run on a set of traditional virtual machines. But, assuming that some unexpected event happens in a region and that it is necessary to make a fast processing of the routes of all the people affected by this, this processing could be done, in an agile way, by specialized machines to meet this type of emergency demand. “The company registers its business objectives and financial constraints, and with this information, the platform we will develop would automatically determine if it would be possible or worthwhile to use these resources”, says Marco.
Much of what is offered in the Cloud market today is based on virtual machines, and the vast majority of applications hosted in the cloud are related to the production and consumption of information, such as shopping (retail) websites, blogs, traffic and time, among others. These are applications that can run on virtual machines, as they provide a good cost benefit to consumers. But there is another wide range of applications that could be hosted in the cloud and that need specialized computing resources, high performance and more complex to manage. “Many of the complex applications are responsible for the great innovations that took place in the technology and business market”, concludes the researcher.
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