On 29th January, CERN openlab held the first Major Review meeting of its third phase. Frédéric Hemmer, newly appointed Head of the IT department at CERN, presented his best wishes of success to this new phase of the framework as well as his strong support. Wolfgang von Rüden, Head of CERN openlab and former Head of the IT Department at CERN, welcome the participants.

Sverre Jarp, CERN openlab CTO, gave an update of the on going work as well as an overview of the new projects starting with the third phase of the openlab. He also introduced a total of eight technical presentations in the morning, which covered the work done in openlab since last Major Review Meeting in September as well as the new areas of work.

• Andrzej Nowak covered the recent results in the Platform Competence Centre and related future topics to be investigated within the openlab.

• Eric Grancher, Anton Topurov and Chris Lambert covered the Oracle activities in the DES group.

• Maria Girone and Eva Dafonte did the same for the DM group.

• Max Böhm and Daniel Rodrigues covered the work done with EDS. Max delivered an update on Grid Monitoring Solutions while Daniel spoke about MSG Messaging System for the Grid.

• Xavier Gréhant gave an update of Jose Dana Perez' work on Tycoon project and presented his work on Resource Allocation.

• Finally, Ryszard Jurga described the progress made inside the CINBAD joint project with HP ProCurve while Milosz Hulboj closed the morning session by delivering an appreciated presentation focusing on time series mining (see slide above).