Past Events

David Foster, CERN, will lead the session Cross-border service procurement at the next EGI Community Forum.

The acquisition of IT services is a key function in any organisation, public or private. Cloud computing means new ways of procuring services. In this session we’ll look at how the public sector and the research community can best procure cloud services and identify priorities for themselves and for policy makers. Key objectives of the session are: a). Identify common issues and understand how others have overcome them, b). Understand how/if innovative procurement instruments can improve procurement processes, c) Define priorities to support the definition of a preliminary Roadmap to Procurement of cloud services which responds directly to the European Council’s call for a single market in cloud computing.

Bob Jones, CERN & PICSE Coordinator & Helix Nebula Initiative co-chair, attended the Eurocloud forum held in Barcelona as an invited speaker to present the work of Helix Nebula, PICSE, the future HNSciCloud PCP project and plans for the European Open Science Cloud.

The Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud FP7 support action built the premises of the hybrid cloud model that brought together public research organisations and e-Infrastructures with commercial cloud suppliers to create a growing ecosystem for innovation. The Helix Nebula Initiative has been pursuing this rationale in order to build a common platform offering a range of services to Europe’s research communities and to promote the exploitation of the results of publicly funded infrastructures by many market sectors. The PICSE support action supports the initiative by addressing the challenges of procuring cloud services in the research sector.