Seeking industry validation partners
March 1, 2010 by Paul M.. Filed under Adaptation research, Performance modelling, Research collaboration.
A very promising technology prototype has come out of several years of research within our group, led by senior researcher Dr. Jenny Liu. The NICTA Adaptation Engine is piece of software that sits (non-intrusively) within a service-oriented IT environment and helps avoid the meltdown scenario, complimenting our performance modeling and simulation technology. It can sense ‘trouble’ – performance problems – in real-time before they have a customer-facing impact, and respond to these by activating alternative services or re-routing service traffic.
We have patent applications working through the system and certainly want to see the technology reach commercial maturity and success.
But to get there requires an all-important step: Validation of the solution in an industry context.
We’ve done plenty of trials based on hypothetical scenarios run in our lab, and these have helped us refine the prototype and re-affirm our confidence that we’re onto something good here. But what we need to move ahead is a real business scenario – an example business system with high performance characteristics and risks associated with failure of its component services. Examples might come from a telco’s operations support system or business support system, integrated services within a banking environment or trading exchange, or other complex service environments.
Such an engagement would most likely involve as a first step us simulating the target system in our secure environment (or it could also be on our partner’s premises), at no cost and no risk, in order to ‘prove the concept’. Assuming this were successful, the next step might be to plan for a production scale trial. By the time we attain commercial maturity and success, we would of course expect our first validation customers to receive privileged terms for continued use of the technology.
But for now, it’s that first engagement that we’re chasing. If this description does not sound like it matches needs within your organisation, perhaps you know someone for whom it does. If so, spreading the word would be appreciated!
Thanks.
Tags: adaptation, collaboration, meltdown, NICTA, performance
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