OSBF demos platform for secure cloud computing at CeBIT

Company: OSBF (http://www.osbf.de/)   
Release summary: The Interoperability project group of Open Source Business Foundation e.V.
(www.osbf.de), the European business network for the open source sector, presented at CeBIT on
March 3, 2009, a jointly developed platform for secure cloud computing. 
Date of issue: 4th March, 2009
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CeBIT premiere: OSBF's live demo solution brings SOA and security into the cloud

OSBF Interoperability project group realizes secure cloud computing with the Internet Service Bus 

Nuremberg/Hanover, 4 March 2009 +++ The Interoperability project group of Open Source Business
Foundation e.V. (www.osbf.de), the European business network for the open source sector, presented
at CeBIT on March 3, 2009, a jointly developed platform for secure cloud computing. The Internet
Service Bus (ISB) demonstrates how different applications can be combined to form platform-neutral
services and be used securely. For the first time the Internet Service Bus shows, moreover, how
concepts of service-oriented architecture can serve as a basis for cloud computing. It is in this
context that the Identity Network Service (INS) offers the necessary security. For the first time
ever, the INS permits secure online authentication and authorization by single sign-on - also in
cloud environments. For private and B2B users alike, the project not only points out specific
application scenarios for cloud computing. It also provides software manufacturers, integrators and
hosters with an important technology module that offers the possibility of new, cloud-based
business models. 

The development consortium of the OSBF Interoperability project group consists of 1&1, Corisecio,
Microsoft, Open-Xchange and Sopera. Andreas Hartl, head of the OSBF Interoperability project group
and Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, explains: "Cloud computing is the
future. That's why, when we launched our project group in summer 2008, we defined two projects -
ISB and INS - both of which focus squarely on customer requirements. The Internet Service Bus makes
it possible, for the first time, for services of different producers in the cloud to communicate
with one another. And the Identity Network Service allows users to access a number of combined
services with a single sign-on to the cloud. The project group's work points the way to the future
of cloud computing." 

An online demo presented live by the project group at CeBIT shows how one web application is
sufficient to administer patient data, securely, from different sources. To ensure that personal
data is protected, authorized nursing staff are given specific access to individual datasets. To
this end the Internet Service Bus, which is based on the open source platform of German SOA
specialist Sopera, creates a bridge between the Java and the .NET world: it integrates the
applications Open-Xchange, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Virtual Earth to form one web-browser.
All this is completely transparent for users and application developers, making technical know-how
unnecessary. Furthermore, the ISB platform is flexible, scalable and competitively priced. At the
same time, providers of online applications and services find themselves presented with new sales
opportunities in the form, say, of pay-per-use models. 

Well-known analysts such as Gartner and IDC forecast massive growth in cloud computing in the years
ahead. With the Internet Service Bus as a transparent, open source-based middleware and the
Identity Network Service as a secure authentication and authorization solution, the development
consortium of the OSBF Interoperability project group has come up with a future-oriented platform
for this growth market. The ISB combines the approaches of service-oriented architecture and of
cloud computing in a reliable and effective manner.

Die Open Source Business Foundation e.V. (OSBF)
Die Open Source Business Foundation e.V. - OSBF - mit Vereinssitz in Nürnberg ist ein europäisches
Netzwerk aus Unternehmen, Institutionen und Personen, deren gemeinsame Interessen in Open Source
Entwicklungs- und Businessmodellen liegen. Unternehmensgründer und etablierte Unternehmen aus ganz
Europa finden in der OSBF eine Plattform, die ihnen Kontakte bietet und ihre Geschäftsideen
unterstützt und fördert. Das Besondere an der Open Source Business Foundation ist, dass sie Open
Source buchstäblich aus der Business-Perspektive betrachtet: Bei den vielfältigen Aktivitäten der
OSBF steht immer der geschäftliche Nutzen von Open Source-Software im Vordergrund. Das
Erfolgsrezept der OSBF besteht darin, Softwareunternehmen und Servicefirmen, Coaches,
Wachstumsfinanzierer und Hochschulen europaweit zu vernetzen und alle OSBF Mitglieder in konkrete
Projekte einzubeziehen. 

Zu den Highlights der OSBF zählt die alljährliche Verleihung des mit insgesamt 78.000 Euro
dotierten Open Source Business Awards (OSBA) für auf europäischer Ebene beispielgebende Open
Source-Software und -Geschäftskonzepte. Weitere wichtige Aktivitäten der OSBF sind unter anderem:
das Collaborative Open Source Application Development (COSAD) als Best-Practice-Konsortium für
Softwareentwicklung; die Embedded Open Source Cluster Initiative (EOSCI), in der die
Wissenschaftler des Embedded Systems Institute ESI der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg eng mit der
Industrie kooperieren; Open Source Meets Business (OSMB), eine Veranstaltungsplattform, die OSBF
Mitgliedsfirmen für kostenpflichtige Events zur Verfügung steht; sowie die Foundation Coaches,
nahezu zwei Dutzend hochkompetente und spezialisierte Manager und Berater, die Mitgliedsunternehmen
an ihrer vielfältigen Erfahrung nebenberuflich und ohne Berechnung partizipieren lassen. 

Die Open Source Business Foundation ist Ende 2007 aus ihrer Vorgängerorganisation, dem 2006
gegründeten Linux Business Campus Nürnberg e.V., hervorgegangen. Die OSBF hat heute bereits 150
Mitglieder aus ganz Deutschland, Europa und den USA. Neben zahlreichen mittelständischen und
Großunternehmen - von Agnitas bis Zimory, von SerNet über Novell bis Red Hat, von Microsoft über
die Deutsche Post bis zur Deutschen Telekom - zählen auch diverse Institutionen zum
Mitgliederkreis, wie etwa die Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, das Fraunhofer-Institut für
Integrierte Schaltungen IIS, die Freie Universität Berlin, die Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg, die IHK Nürnberg für Mittelfranken sowie die Stadt Nürnberg. Außerdem bestehen
Partnerschaften mit sechs Verbänden und Vereinen, wie beispielsweise dem Embedded Systems Institute
(ESI), dem LIVE Linux-Verband e. V. und der Nürnberger Initiative für die Kommunikationswirtschaft
e. V. (NIK). 

Kontakt
Open Source Business Foundation e.V.		
Richard Seibt					
Theresienstraße 9				
90409 Nürnberg					
Deutschland					
Tel. +49 (0)911-37 65 00-150			
Fax +49 (0)911-37 65 00-299			
E-Mail: richard.seibt@osbf.de 			
Internet: www.osbf.de 				

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