Publications

On April 2015, CERN published the paper "Towards the Open European Science Cloud". The paper outlines the establishment of the European Open Science Cloud that will enable digital science by introducing IT as a Service to the public research sector in Europe.

This document provides a state of the art analysis of how public research organizations procure ICT services and identifies the challenges when the procurement is focused on cloud services. The document also reports what public sector organizations are doing to procure cloud services and how cloud service providers are responding to the demand - side. Finally it presents the basic structure on which the PICSE procurement model for cloud services will build on.

The EIROforum IT Working Group published in 2013 the e‐Infrastructure for the 21st Century document that presented a vision for an integrated set of e-Infrastructure services to support the growing needs of data intensive science. An year later EIROforum IT Working Group has released an updated version of this document: “e-Infrastructure for the 21st Century – One Year Later”

This report will include: a collection of procurement good practices in the public sector, both in Research and Public Administration, which would cover real life examples in Europe as well as outside the EEA (e.g. USA); a comparison between procurement practices in the public and private sector and a description of how current good practices can overcome barriers and the identification of unaddressed challenges.