3 February 2025. GÉANT is delighted to announce that the OCRE 2024 Framework, the third iteration of GÉANT’s flagship cloud frameworks, officially starts today, 3 February 2025, and will be in place...
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We are pleased to share that the signature process of OCRE 2024 Framework agreements is rapidly progressing in line with the approaching start date of the OCRE 2024 Framework, planned for 3 February 2025. The process involves the formalisation of 416 framework agreements with a wide range of commercial cloud service providers, offering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. With the majority of the contracts already countersigned by service providers, OCRE 2024 framework agreements will soon be available for all the institutions that had expressed their willingness to participate through their National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). The full list of...
Since 2016, GÉANT’s flagship cloud frameworks have fostered digital transformation across Europe, by enabling easy, convenient, and compliant consumption of commercial cloud services for Research and Education (R&E) institutions. In this article, we provide a comprehensive update on the current and upcoming cloud service agreements for the pan-European R&E community. An update on the OCRE 2024 Framework (available from February 2025) Following an intensive phase of evaluation of tender responses, we are pleased to share with our community that the new GÉANT cloud framework – OCRE2024 – is now in the final stages of preparation. The new framework agreements are expected to become available on 3 February 2025 and will be in place...
The power of using AI in the Cloud within Research and Education is only starting to be understood with the ability to manage and understand complex data and systems in ways impossible using traditional methods. With AI, patterns and structures in data can be visualised where they would otherwise be hidden. AI is far far more than just ChatGPT and fake celebrity images and it is vital to understand how it can be used to benefit R&E. Join us for a live webinar hosted by GÉANT, featuring Google Cloud and Sparkle, to discover how AI and Cloud technologies are transforming research and higher education. Learn how to harness these powerful tools to streamline workflows, enhance data analysis, and create innovative educational experiences...
Continuing a longstanding and successful collaboration, GÉANT and EUNIS (European University Information Systems) recently held an online workshop to discuss data control and security in the cloud, featuring presentations from NRENs and universities. Data Control and Security in the Cloud Cloud services in academia offer significant advantages for R&E institutions in terms of scale, cost and agility. Alongside though there can be numerous challenges, particularly in terms of control and security. Using cloud services comes at a loss of direct control over specific locations and hardware, and it can also mean more complicated and ambiguous ownership and responsibility for services, software and data, as well as dispersed access and...
The GÉANT Clouds team and the Special Interest Group on Cloud Interoperable Software Stacks (SIG-CISS) invite you to their joint side meetings on Monday 10 June at TNC24 in Rennes, France. The two sessions will be held as two distinct but interconnected meetings, both touching on the role of NRENs in Trusted Research Environments (TREs), and on topics of security, privacy, and data confidentiality in the cloud. In order to attend the TNC24 side meetings, it is mandatory to purchase a ‘Side Meeting Pass’ via the TNC24 website by 6 June, either while purchasing a full conference pass or as a separate pass: GÉANT Cloud Horizons, Frameworks and Sensitive Data Date and time: 10 June 2024, 9:00-12:30 CEST Duration: 3,5h Location: Le Couvent des...
21 March 2024. GÉANT is delighted to announce the publication of the OCRE 2024 Tender for the large-scale procurement of commercial cloud services offerings for its pan-European Research and Education community. The tender aims to procure the OCRE 2024 Cloud framework agreements – the third iteration of GÉANT’s flagship cloud frameworks that since 2016 have enabled easy, convenient, and compliant consumption of commercial cloud services for R&E institutions across Europe. The tender documents and the portal for responding to the OCRE 2024 tender can be found in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU): Unlocking the innovative potential of commercial cloud for Research and Education across Europe Commercial cloud...
This interview is part of a section on commercial cloud procurement, published in the March 2024 issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine (CONNECT45). We also suggest reading “How GÉANT Cloud Frameworks outline the cloudscape of European R&E“. Since 2016, GÉANT and the European NRENs – both via GÉANT projects and other EC-funded projects – have played an instrumental role in unlocking the innovative potential of commercial cloud services for the European Research and Education community. The joint procurement and delivery of two very large-scale cloud framework agreements to all of Europe’s R&E institutions has been widely recognised as ground-breaking (see the article How GÉANT Cloud Frameworks outline the cloudscape of...
This article is part of a section on commercial cloud procurement, published in the March 2024 issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine (CONNECT45). We also suggest reading “From the OCRE project to EOSC Future – lessons learned in commercial cloud procurement“. In the rapidly evolving global landscape of Research and Education, cloud-based services have become a driving force for innovation, tapping into every digitised field and in all areas. The increasing adoption of commercial cloud services in parallel with community cloud is helping to advance research globally, fostering the digitisation of education, and transforming the way institutions access resources and utilise them. In this context, the GÉANT cloud frameworks –...
List of all OCRE 2024 participating entities across Europe
