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View Page HistoryThe Contrail Project is all about finding solutions to a rather new problem: *cloud computing*.
After decades in which companies used to host their entire IT infrastructures in-house, a major shift is occurring where these infrastructures are outsourced to external operators such as Data Centers and Computing Clouds. However, although this market is in rapid expansion in Europe, this growth may soon be hindered by user concerns such as lock-in within a single commercial offer (which reduces the necessary competition between many infrastructure providers), ownership and privacy issues of the data stored in the Cloud, and the lack of performance predictability of current Clouds.
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The Contrail project will run for a period of three years and will show tangible results:
The Contrail project will run for a period of three years and will show tangible results:
# * Contrail will provide a complete Cloud platform which integrates a full Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offer.
# * Contrail will allow Cloud providers to seamlessly integrate resources from other Clouds with their own infrastructure.
# * Contrail will break the current customer lock-in situation by allowing live application migration from one cloud to another.
# * Contrail will be fully available in open-source.