T-Systems-SfR

T-Systems-SfR is a joint-venture between T-Systems International (75%), one of Europe’s top 5 providers of ITC-services and DLR, the German Centre for Aerospace Research (25%). TS-SfR has a focus on services for industrial and public Research and Development.
In the context of the EC-funded projects EUROGRID, UniGrids and BEinGrid and the UNICORE project funded by the German ministry for science and education the base-technologies for Grid-service environments were and are integrated and exploited for pilot scenarios.
License Management is a critical issue for the success of commercial Grid-environments. In the context of EUROGRID and the internal HPCPortal project, T-Systems has already implemented rudimentary methods for the management and accounting of software-licenses. These and T-Systems´ internal license-management experiences will be exploited and further developed in the SmartLM project. So, T-Systems brings the asset of several years of production-experience in license-management into the project.
T-Systems will directly integrate the results of SmartLM into its services. T-Systems is also the responsible partner for license-management in the D-Grid project InGrid funded by the German ministry for science and education. The context of the SmartLM project is one brick in the development of management and business structures for a more general deployment of Grid-technology in service-environments.