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 questionnaire

Date 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 analysis
a. 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 1

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? 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?

Are you familiar with cloud technologies? If so, do you know which ones you are using or have considered

Specific market/customer requirements a. Contrail is a project under the FP7 Internet of Services programme (http://contrailproject.eu ).

Have you heard of it? 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

Yes (how) No

Security - marks 1 to 5 in importance 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?

Security

Costs - marks 1 to 5 in importance (5 most important) 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?

Costs

Scalability - marks 1 to 5 in importance (5 most important) Do you need scalability? How big are your jobs?

Scalability

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 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 current view of federation might change in the future Federation other comments, if any?

Federation

Location of work/data (does it matter where you work is performed?) - marks 1 to 5 in importance (5 most important) 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?

Location of work

Performance - - marks 1 to 5 in importance (5 most important) 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?

Speed

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

Infrastructure type 1

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

Other 2 (in case they mention another feature that is not mentioned above)

Other 2