The European Open Science Cloud envisages a trusted, open environment for storing, sharing and re-using scientific data and results and supporting Open Science practices. How procurement practices, cloud contracts and SLAs affect the establishment of such environment? The PICSE (Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe) and SLALOM (Legal & open model terms for cloud SLA and contracts http://slalom-project.eu) H2020-funded projects have been working to answer this question.
On the 20th of January, Sara Garavelli, Trust-IT Services presented the PICSE Roadmap on Cloud Service Procurement for public research organisations at the Open Day event: Towards the European Open Science Cloud.
The presentation includes a summary of the call for action for different stakeholders, namely: public research sector organisations, cloud sevice providers and policy makers.
On the 20th of January 2016, Damir Savanovic, the Cloud Security Alliance, gave an overview of the PICSE report: Procurement Best Practices.
The report, targeting mainly public research organisations, policy makers and cloud service providers, presents cloud computing service procurement best practices in public research organisations.
On the 15th of October, Sara Garavelli, Trust-IT Services gve the presentation: PCP & PPP trends and user stories in Europe at the Euritas Summit 2015.
PICSE mission, results of the Procurement Barriers report, early outcomes of the case studies and presentation of the PICSE Wizard... don't miss this presentation!
On 13th February 2015, Sara Garavelli, Trust-IT Services and PICSE consortium, gave the presentation: "EU procurement support for cloud technologies" at the Europeana Tech 2015 conference. The presentation summarizes the first achievements of the PICSE project and describes the opportunities made available by the European Commission in the field of the procurement of cloud services.
Bob Jones, CERN & PICSE & Helix Nebula initiative coordinator, presented PICSE - Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe, at the Information Day on 3rd October 2014.
PICSE is a completely new initiative, funded under the first wave of H2020 1st call, started on the 1st October 2014 in the field of procurement of cloud services for the public sector and will run for 18 months.
Presentation by Bob Jones, CERN & Helix-Nebula & PICSE coordinator, at the European Research e-Infrastructures and Innovation Clusters workshop, 3 October 2014, Brussels, Belgium