The GÉANT (GN5-2) Project’s Above-the-Net Services incubator is looking for practical proposals around three areas of service concept investment being developed by the GN5-2 Above-the-Net Services team. These are: Digital Research Environment (DRE) Object Storage Infrastructure Data Movement Infrastructure Through the incubator, the GN5-2 project will offer person months (PMs) to project partners to develop service Proof-of-Concepts with the eventual aim of expanding the GÉANT community’s portfolio of Above-the-Net services. The initiative ultimately aims to reduce risks associated with the development of innovative ideas before committing resources on the level of a project task or GÉANT service. ACT NOW! The call is now open as of 1 May...
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The GÉANT Innovation Programme is excited to announce the award of its entire 2025 fund to the development of a GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) and of a series of related Proof of Concepts. Based on the SURF Research Cloud, this digital platform will allow researchers and research organisations within NREN communities to build virtual research environments, get access to national and regional infrastructure and digital services, and collaborate on projects across teams and institutions in different countries. The initiative will see the collaboration of SURF and GÉANT, with SURF leading technical developments and support to NRENs and GÉANT overseeing the project’s coordination. Additionally, four NRENs – SUNET, Switch, HEAnet...
GÉANT and EUNIS – the European University Information Systems organisation – will hold a joint online workshop on the OCRE 2024 Framework
11 April 2025
10:00 – 12:00 CEST
Agenda
OCRE 2024 Framework
Garvan McFeeley (HEAnet) and Monique Pellinkhof (GÉANT) will explain the basics of how the framework operates, outline its benefits and offerings, and describe step-by-step the different roles and processes
GEANT Cloud Strategy
Jan Meijer (Sikt) will present and lead a discussion on the Cloud Strategy
Maria Ristkok (EENet, Ministry of Education and Research, and GÉANT Cloud Team) and Denise Dittrich (EUNIS) will give the introductory address.
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 for a period of five years. Resulting from a pan-European procurement established under the GÉANT (GN5-1) Project and building on the successes of the previous frameworks, the OCRE 2024 Framework will enable tens of thousands of European Research and Education (R&E) institutions and public institutions across 39 countries to procure innovative cloud services in an easy, compliant, and cost-effective way. The OCRE 2024 Framework delivers an impressive portfolio of 416 cloud service offerings across 17 cloud platforms for IaaS (Infrastructure...
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The GÉANT Innovation Programme is excited to announce the award of its entire 2025 fund to the development of a GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) and of a series of related Proof of Concepts. Based on the SURF Research Cloud, this digital platform will allow researchers and research organisations within NREN communities to build virtual research environments, get access to national and regional infrastructure and digital services, and collaborate on projects across teams and institutions in different countries. The initiative will see the collaboration of SURF and GÉANT, with SURF leading technical developments and support to NRENs and GÉANT overseeing the project’s coordination. Additionally, four NRENs – SUNET, Switch, HEAnet...
GÉANT and EUNIS – the European University Information Systems organisation – will hold a joint online workshop on the OCRE 2024 Framework
11 April 2025
10:00 – 12:00 CEST
Agenda
OCRE 2024 Framework
Garvan McFeeley (HEAnet) and Monique Pellinkhof (GÉANT) will explain the basics of how the framework operates, outline its benefits and offerings, and describe step-by-step the different roles and processes
GEANT Cloud Strategy
Jan Meijer (Sikt) will present and lead a discussion on the Cloud Strategy
Maria Ristkok (EENet, Ministry of Education and Research, and GÉANT Cloud Team) and Denise Dittrich (EUNIS) will give the introductory address.
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 for a period of five years. Resulting from a pan-European procurement established under the GÉANT (GN5-1) Project and building on the successes of the previous frameworks, the OCRE 2024 Framework will enable tens of thousands of European Research and Education (R&E) institutions and public institutions across 39 countries to procure innovative cloud services in an easy, compliant, and cost-effective way. The OCRE 2024 Framework delivers an impressive portfolio of 416 cloud service offerings across 17 cloud platforms for IaaS (Infrastructure...
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...
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The GÉANT (GN5-2) Project’s Above-the-Net Services incubator is looking for practical proposals around three areas of service concept investment being developed by the GN5-2 Above-the-Net Services team. These are: Digital Research Environment (DRE) Object Storage Infrastructure Data Movement Infrastructure Through the incubator, the GN5-2 project will offer person months (PMs) to project partners to develop service Proof-of-Concepts with the eventual aim of expanding the GÉANT community’s portfolio of Above-the-Net services. The initiative ultimately aims to reduce risks associated with the development of innovative ideas before committing resources on the level of a project task or GÉANT service. ACT NOW! The call is now open as of 1 May...
The GÉANT Innovation Programme is excited to announce the award of its entire 2025 fund to the development of a GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) and of a series of related Proof of Concepts. Based on the SURF Research Cloud, this digital platform will allow researchers and research organisations within NREN communities to build virtual research environments, get access to national and regional infrastructure and digital services, and collaborate on projects across teams and institutions in different countries. The initiative will see the collaboration of SURF and GÉANT, with SURF leading technical developments and support to NRENs and GÉANT overseeing the project’s coordination. Additionally, four NRENs – SUNET, Switch, HEAnet...
GÉANT and EUNIS – the European University Information Systems organisation – will hold a joint online workshop on the OCRE 2024 Framework
11 April 2025
10:00 – 12:00 CEST
Agenda
OCRE 2024 Framework
Garvan McFeeley (HEAnet) and Monique Pellinkhof (GÉANT) will explain the basics of how the framework operates, outline its benefits and offerings, and describe step-by-step the different roles and processes
GEANT Cloud Strategy
Jan Meijer (Sikt) will present and lead a discussion on the Cloud Strategy
Maria Ristkok (EENet, Ministry of Education and Research, and GÉANT Cloud Team) and Denise Dittrich (EUNIS) will give the introductory address.
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 for a period of five years. Resulting from a pan-European procurement established under the GÉANT (GN5-1) Project and building on the successes of the previous frameworks, the OCRE 2024 Framework will enable tens of thousands of European Research and Education (R&E) institutions and public institutions across 39 countries to procure innovative cloud services in an easy, compliant, and cost-effective way. The OCRE 2024 Framework delivers an impressive portfolio of 416 cloud service offerings across 17 cloud platforms for IaaS (Infrastructure...
