The Service Availability Forum™ is a consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies working together to develop and publish high availability and management software interface specifications. The SA Forum then promotes and facilitates specification adoption by the industry. Manfred was elected president in 2004 and supported the Forum work in a number of roles (business model, use model, board member etc) over the years.
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The AMBER Project aimed to coordinate the study of resilience measuring and benchmarking in computer systems and components, fostering European research in order to address the big challenges on resilience assessment posed by current and forthcoming computer systems and computer-based infrastructures. Manfred was a member of the AMBER advisory board.
ISAS, the International Service Availability Symposium, was a sequence of 5 events bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss the availability aspects in services. The term services is kept relatively vague on purpose. This helped the ISAS conference to address a wide set of service areas including maintenance, Web services, xaaS (software, applications, infrastructure As A Service) and other service aspects around information (and communication) technologies.
ISAS 2008, the 5th in the series of ISAS Events (International Service Availability Symposium), was hosted by Prof. Takashi Nanya at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), University of Tokyo in May 2008. Close to 80 participants from industry and academia showed the importance of the conference, which celebrated its 5th anniversary.
Der Fachbereich Sicherheit – Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit der deutschen Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) ist ein Forum für alle aktiven Experten (und Interessierte) zu den Themen Sicherheit (security – safety) und Zuverlässigkeit (dependability, availability). Fachgruppen mit Experten aus Wissenschaft und Industrie bearbeiten aktuelle Themen, fördern aber auch den Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft, Industrie und Gesellschaft. Die Fächer übergreifenden Eigenschaften des Themas Sicherheit spiegeln sich in der Organisation des Fachbereichs wieder. Er bietet den Rahmen für fachübergreifende Arbeitsgruppen, Konferenzen und anderen gemeinsamen Aktivitäten zwischen den Arbeitsgruppen, aber auch mit anderen Fachbereichen der GI, Industriepartnern und der Gesellschaft. Manfred war Gründungsmitglied des Fachbereichs, der […]