Hewlett Packard Italiana S.r.l - Italy Innovation Center

HP-IIC (Italy Innovation Center) is one of HP's European Innovation Centers. Since 1999, it is carrying on applied research, technology transfer and innovative solutions integration in leading edge areas. It can rely upon an excellence level team of researchers, consolidated skills and methodologies, and a physical infrastructure supporting project development and demonstration.

Role in Contrail

HP-IIC will contribute to CONTRAIL RTD activities, bringing expertise in Grid computing, Cloud computing (Eucalyptus, Hadoop) and Security. HP-IIC will lead WP3 on Service Level Agreements and will mainly offer contributions to WP2 on IaaS federations, and will be involved in different tasks in SP2, SP3, SP4 and SP5.

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LINAGORA

LINAGORA is a French leading company in Open Source Software and a Professional Services Provider. With more than 100 employees and a presence in France (Paris, Toulouse, Lyon and Marseille), Belgium (Brussels) and the United States (San Francisco).

LINAGORA develops its own open source software and offers a variety of professional services. It offers also a novice support solution ­ OSSA (Open  Source Software Assurance). The offer of LINAGORA's software is: OBM (messaging and collaborative software), LinPKI (security), LinID (identity management) and Petals (ESB and BPM).

LINAGORA also offers a variety of professional services: training, consulting, web agency, technical assistance, and engineering. And its novice support solution ­OSSA is a unique solution on a French market that provides a full line of services available through our one-stop shop in order to secure the FLOSS oriented information systems.

Role in Contrail

LINAGORA will provide its expertise about open source projects development and packaging. We are mainly involved in WP11 "integration, testing and release management" and we will have the responsibility of the collaborative development platform (open-source forge) as well as the integration process and release management.