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Power tomorrow’s scientific breakthrough with Google Cloud. Join CTS, Sparkle and SURF on June 22 at the Google Amsterdam office to get inspired about what Google Cloud can offer research institutes, and learn how the OCRE Framework can make the transition to Google Cloud convenient and easy. Discover the world of Google Cloud for scientists From RAD Lab, a Google Cloud-based sandbox environment to help teams move quickly from research and development to production, to advanced statistical and machine learning methods for your research data. We invite you to stop by to get inspired about what’s possible with Google Cloud. Program 09:30 Walk-in 10:00 Start & Introductions, welcome by SURF 10:15 Introduction to Google Cloud for...
On 9 and 10 May 2023, the first All-Hands meeting of the GÉANT GN5-1 Work Package (WP4) focusing on Above-the-Net services took place in the charming neighbourhood of Charlottenburg, in Berlin. Project participants, representing NRENs from all across Europe, came together to introduce their activities, discuss their plans, and identify synergies across the different tasks. Organised by WP4 and hosted by the German NREN DFN, the meeting kicked off with an opening address by Work Package leaders Jakob Tendel (DFN) and Maria Ristkok (EENet), who presented the overall context of the GN5-1 project and its core action areas, together with the specific objectives and timeline of WP4. Following initial warm-up activities, different task leaders...
GÉANT and The Commons Conservancy have joined forces to pilot the open-source, web-based videoconferencing (VC) solution, eduMEET. This software enables institutions to build a low-cost, easy to use VC platform for one-to-one or multiple-user conferences. A cost-effective, more secure alternative to commercial solutions, eduMEET is easy to run without the need to install any additional clients or plugins. Amsterdam, Netherlands 4 May 2023 – One of the primary objectives of the GÉANT GN5-1 project’s above-the-net (network) efforts is to establish a legal-administrative framework and software governance to support community financing for the spinoff of the eduMEET platform proof of concept. Within the scope of this objective, a...
Join Quistor for an exclusive webinar on Tuesday 16 May, 11:00-12:00 BST. Quistor experts will showcase the features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) native database platforms, specifically tailored for research and education institutions. The speakers will delve into Quistor’s expertise in database performance tuning and monitoring, as well as demonstrate how Quistor can help you successfully lift and shift your applications and databases to OCI. Discover the OCI Database Service for Azure, and how the Azure/OCI interconnect can provide compatibility with your existing cloud infrastructure. Furthermore, they will discuss the benefits of the OCI Autonomous Database and Exadata, and how this can help you increase database...
Following a successful final review by the European Commission, the OCRE project team celebrates the culmination of their work, together with the project’s conclusion and its remarkable achievements. In its role of OCRE’s coordinator, GÉANT extends its heartfelt appreciation to partner organisations CERN, RHEA and Trust-IT, as well as to contractors EARSC, Evenflow and SixSq for their contributions and for their dedication to the project’s success. Our thanks also to the community of European NRENs for their crucial role in support of the project, and to commercial partners for their proactive approach. Unlocking the potential of cloud and EO services for European research Concluded in December 2022, the OCRE (Open Clouds for Research...
A handbook to help research network users make an informed choice of public cloud services and avoid nasty surprises Words: Claudia Battista, Director of GARR In the world of research networks, the design, implementation, and management of connectivity or above-the-network services have always been planned with users. One of the main purposes of research networks is to drive technological evolution while maintaining transparency and full control of the network, and the capacity to adapt to specific user requirements. However, the offer of ICT services by commercial providers has dramatically grown over the years and today the adoption of applications and information services on public clouds is a thing even in the scientific, academic, and...
The OCRE project, which came to a close in December 2022, made commercial cloud services available to accelerate research and education throughout 10,000 institutions across Europe Driving innovation through research and driving research through innovation The OCRE project was initiated to stimulate the use of commercial cloud and Earth Observation (EO) services by the European research community. According to Dave Heyns, OCRE Project Director, the adoption of such services was particularly low before the project commenced because researchers and research institutions struggled to find the proper service providers and reach legal and technical agreements with them. “What we did was to aggregate community demand and requirements and applied...
The GÉANT Cloud Survey is a vital way for the GÉANT Cloud Team to gather important input from GÉANT member NRENs and their member institutions. This input helps the team to assist NRENs and higher education and research institutions in procuring cloud-based services and products that meet users’ needs and are uniquely suited to the community’s requirements, and to curate and develop cloud-based community platforms and tools. The GÉANT cloud team needs data on institutions’ plans and needs and local factors in each country and NREN in order to: Curate and develop optimal products and services that meet the community’s needs Provide the best possible support to NRENs and R&E institutions Prepare for the follow-on 2024 GÉANT...
In this GÉANT CONNECT interview, we invite you to get to know Claudio Pisa, a member of the Distributed Computing and Storage department at the Italian NREN GARR, as well as a member of the Special Interest Group on Cloud Interoperable Software Stacks (SIG-CISS), and member of the GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) since 2022. He is currently involved in the design, development and management of virtualisation infrastructures and cloud services and in the materialisation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Before joining GARR, he has worked in R&D in the academic and industrial sectors, participating in several European research projects in the domains of computer networks, cloud/edge computing and computer security. He has also...
