The prime deliverables of the project will be a definition of the architecture and reference implementation built on open standards along with new technologies to provide a scalable, flexible and dependable framework for delivering services as utilities while federating diverse infrastructures. It is envisioned that these deliverables will serve the European community, as well as RESERVOIR partners and their customers, in the development of next generation data centers demonstrating quantified and significant improvements in service delivery productivity, quality, availability and cost. 

 Key technologies being developed in RESERVOIR include:

• Migration enablement of both virtual machines and Virtual Java Service Containers across network and storage boundaries.
• Distributed management of virtual infrastructures across sites supporting private, public and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Algorithms for the allocation of resources to conform to SLA (Service Level Agreement) requirements.
• The creation of a formal Service Definition Language to support service deployment and life cycle management across RESERVOIR sites.
• Security mechanisms for the safe deployment and relocation of virtual machines across physical machines, and RESERVOIR sites.
• The development of a business information model as well as business oriented payment and billing mechanisms to charge for resources used across one or more RESERVOIR sites.
• Testbed development to benchmark performance of actual industrial use cases in a RESERVOIR environment.