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Leire Orue-Echevarria Arrieta
Computer Engineer, MBA, PhD
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Introduction
Leire Orue-Echevarria Arrieta currently works at the ICT Division, Tecnalia. Leire does research in Computer Architecture and Software Engineering. Her current projecst are CITADEL ('Empowering citizens to transform public administrations'), DECIDE ('DEvOps for trusted, portable and interoperable Multi-Cloud applications towards the Digital singlE market') and OPERANDO ('Online Privacy Enforcement, Rights Assurance and Optimization')
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September 2011 - present
Education
October 2014 - April 2016
October 2013 - June 2014
October 2011 - October 2012
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Publications (43)
The evolution of Cloud Computing into a service utility, along with the pervasive adoption of the IoT paradigm, has promoted a significant growth in the need of computational and storage services. The traditional use of cloud services, focused on the consumption of one provider, is not valid anymore due to different shortcomings being the risk of v...
While the emergence of COVID-19 [1] has put major cloud service providers around the world to the test, the pandemic has also provided a strong impetus for the adoption and deployment of cloud computing: the transition to a remote workforce, entertainment, e-commerce, and especially remote education have affected the cloud industry and how provider...
The software industry has a great impact in the European Union’s economy as reported in a study by the European Commission [1]. However, in spite of the importance that software has in Europe, there exist several barriers that could hamper its growth. An important one is related to research and development of software technologies, and more specifi...
PIACERE is an European project supported by the Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, whose objective is to enhance the productivity of DevOps teams in the operation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by offering an integrated DevSec-Ops framework. Thus, DevOps practitioners can develop IaC as if they were programming a common softwa...
The current trend of developing highly distributed, context aware, heterogeneous computing intense and data-sensitive applications is changing the boundaries of cloud computing. Encouraged by the growing IoT paradigm and with flexible edge devices available, an ecosystem of a combination of resources, ranging from high density compute and storage t...
The present paper aims at presenting a structured literature review for what concerns the following aspects: Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) languages, modelling approaches supporting the generation of IaC, categories of languages, and their characteristics, and security analysis techniques. Finally, the paper draws conclusions and gives some future...
The current IT market is more and more dominated by the “cloud continuum”. In the “traditional” cloud, computing resources are typically homogeneous in order to facilitate economies of scale. In contrast, in edge computing, computational resources are widely diverse, commonly with scarce capacities and must be managed very efficiently due to batter...
Cloud applications are by nature dynamic and must react to variations in use, and evolve to adopt new Cloud services, and exploit new capabilities offered by Edge and Fog devices, or within data centers offering Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) or dedicated processors for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our proposal is to alleviate this complexity by...
The transformation from a product to service economy means that companies need to become software service providers as well as consumers. Cloud enables greater business agility by making IT infrastructure more flexible. The current trends of deploying applications following a hybrid cloud, multi-cloud or cross-cloud architecture, as well as the des...
DevOps represents a model for application development that enables close collaboration between software developers and IT operations with the objective of implementing continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous development of software applications. This paper proposes an approach for extending the DevOps philosophy with the objectiv...
Big innovation and research projects usually require merging contributions form organizations with expertise in different domains. Managing and participating in multi-company projects that use multiple state-of-the-art technologies constitute a challenging activity due to many factors such as integration inexperience, evolving components, tentative...
This work reports on early results from CITADEL project that aims at creating an ecosystem of best practices, tools, and recommendations to transform Public Administrations with more efficient, inclusive and citizen-centric services. The goal of the recommendations is to support Governments to find out why citizens stop using public services, and u...
This white paper collects the technology solutions that the projects in the Data Protection, Security and Privacy Cluster propose to address the challenges raised by the working areas of the Free Flow of Data initiative. The document describes the technologies, methodologies, models, and tools researched and developed by the clustered projects mapp...
This paper introduces the novel Transformational Cloud Government (TCG) approach and its enabling tools, techniques and best practices to foster the adoption of cloud computing as well as to improve the maturity level of cloud adoption in public administrations, allowing to transition their own software and services to implement on one hand, a more...
Cloud services are emerging today as an innovative IT provisioning model, offering benefits over the traditional approach of provisioning infrastructure. However, the occurrence of multi-tenancy, virtualization and resource sharing issues raise certain difficulties in providing performance estimation during application design or deployment time. In...
Several modelling approaches including CloudML emerged to specify the deployment of cloud-based applications and automate the provisioning of computational resources. While CloudML was introduced in the REMICS project, its development continued by ongoing projects, i.e., ARTIST, MODAClouds, and PaaSage. As the evolution of CloudML in the three proj...
The authors discuss important factors to consider when migrating software to the cloud and offer recommendations to maximize the chance of success.
Over the past decade, cloud services emerged as one of the most promising technologies in IT. Since cloud computing allows improving the quality of software and, at the same time, aims at reducing costs of operating software and hardware, more and more software is delivered as a service in the cloud. However, moving existing software applications t...
Cloud computing has leveraged new software development and provisioning approaches by changing the way computing, storage and networking resources are purchased and consumed. The variety of cloud offerings on both technical and business level has considerably advanced the development process and established new business models and value chains for...
Cloud services have emerged as an innovative IT provisioning model in the recent years. However, after their usage severe considerations have emerged with regard to their varying performance due to multitenancy and resource sharing issues. These issues make it very difficult to provide any kind of performance estimation during application design or...
Cloud computing is still considered a disruptive technology in spite of being part of our lives for several years now. However, cloud computing is much more than a technology; it is also a business model. Many companies that have sold software in a traditional way are now attending to this revolution, wondering if that new technological and busines...
Many software companies have in mind jumping into the Cloud in order to take advantage of this technical paradigm as well as the innovative business models associated (such as SaaS). However, taking this leap becomes a hard task since it implies a high uncertainty and a raised risk without knowing when or even if the investment will be recovered. T...
Nowadays Cloud Computing is considered as the ideal environment for engineering, hosting and provisioning applications. A continuously increasing set of cloud-based solutions is available to application owners and developers to tailor their applications exploiting the advanced features of this paradigm for elasticity, high availability and performa...
To keep software compatible and optimal with respect to the latest trends is not easy. Nearly 90 % of the software cost can be due to maintenance, and approximately 75 % of it is spent on developing new features to stay functionally competitive and relevant. The industry progresses through periods of incremental development interspersed with true p...
As cloud computing allows improving the quality of software and aims at reducing costs of operating software, more and more software is delivered as a service. However, moving from a software as a product strategy to delivering software as a service hosted in cloud environments is very ambitious. This is due to the fact that managing software moder...
The race to keep software compatible and optimal with respect to the latest trends is hard. 90% of software cost can be due to maintenance, and 75% on developing new features to stay competitive and relevant. The industry progresses through periods of incremental development interspersed with true paradigm shifts. Legacy software must keep up the p...
The speed of change in Internet Technologies continues to be impressive and the current "Future Internet" based society increasingly relies on software at all levels. Nevertheless, software systems continue to suffer from aging symptoms caused by the inherent factors of the software modernization process: inevitable; unpredictable; costly; difficul...
The new market trends include globalization and service orientation as important drivers that are changing the way in which businesses operate. Companies are requesting flexible applications that can be acquired and executed seamlessly and independently of the location. This situation is progressively pushing businesses from a proprietary system or...
Collaboration and interoperability are pervasive topics today as organizations struggle to attain competitive edge in today’s
global market fostered by new economies of scale. Moreover, the deep introduction of Internet in our lives both at personal
and business level is changing all aspects of our economies and societies and the way enterprises an...
The Internet is undoubtedly permeating and transforming all aspects of our economies and societies. It is a remarkable catalyst for creativity, collaboration and innovation and more broadly for the development of our economies and societies [ERCIM, 2009]. In this context, collaboration and interoperability are pervasive subjects today as organizati...
The Internet is undoubtedly permeating and transforming all aspects of our economies and societies. It is a remarkable catalyst for creativity, collaboration and innovation and more broadly for the development of our economies and societies [ERCIM, 2009]. In this context, collaboration and interoperability are pervasive subjects today as organizati...
Minimally invasive surgery has revolutionised the surgeon’s approach by using optical systems to inspect cavities of the human
body and by using small instruments to perform surgical procedures. This paper presents the LAHYSTOTRAIN demonstrator a training
system for laparoscopy and hysteroscopy, two types of minimally invasive surgery techniques, c...