H2020 to accelerate critical data app development
A UK company has announced its participation in a €4m Horizon 2020-funded cloud computing project.
Flexiant is taking part in the ‘Developing Data-Intensive Cloud Applications with Iterative Quality Enhancements’, or DICE project. The venture seeks to define a development methodology and related tools to accelerate the development of business-critical, data-intensive cloud applications. The consortium will apply the methodology to develop a quality engineering toolchain offering simulation, verification and numerical optimisation to drive early design stages of application development and guide software quality evolution.
Craig Sheridan, head of research at Flexiant, said: “Developing software that meets the high quality standards expected for business-critical cloud applications remains a barrier to entry for many small and medium independent software vendors (ISVs) because they often lack resources and expertise for advanced quality engineering. The DICE consortium will tackle this challenge in support of these ISVs across Europe.”
The collaborative research project includes a number of partners across Europe. The project is co-ordinated by Imperial College London in the UK, and also involves ProDevelop, Spain; Netfective, France; University of Zaragoza, Spain and Athens Technology Centre, Greece. Also participating is Xlab Razvoj, Slovenia; Institutul E-AUS, Romania; and Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Adding further thoughts, Sheridan said: “Increased demand for data-intensive applications capable of exploiting Big Data technologies such as Hadoop/MapReduce, NoSQL, cloud-based storage and stream processing offers ISVs opportunities for growth. DICE will enhance the capability of small and medium ISVs to enter the Big Data market.”
The project is receiving funding from Industrial Leadership’s ICT objective.
