Presentations

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 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.

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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.

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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.