PICSE in the Media

Cloud computing, innovation and open science were the keywords at the Open Day Event: Towards the European Open Science Cloud (20 January 2016). Organised by the Helix Nebula Initiative and hosted by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the event saw over 100 representatives coming together from some of the most renowned international research organisations, e-infrastructures, cloud projects, cloud service providers from both the public and private sector, IT advisory bodies as well as funding agencies.

The PICSE project recently published a report on the experiences of ten European public sector organizations that have either carried out a process to procure cloud services, or are considering doing so in the near future. The results of these case studies will feed into the PICSE ‘roadmap’ on the procurement of cloud services, which is set for publication early next year...

Over 80 experts from European research organisations, and public & private commercial cloud service providers gathered at CERN on 26 June 2015 for the Helix Nebula Initiative (HNI) and PICSE Open Day event: Towards a European Open Science Cloud, which demonstrated why and how Europe can enable digital science by introducing IT as a Service for its public research community.