This workshop will take place on 26 April 2024, from 10:00 to 12:30 CEST, and it is jointly organised by GÉANT and EUNIS – the European University Information Systems organisation. Working in the cloud presents enormous advantages for R&E institutions and community members, but it can also pose particular challenges. To start with, the cloud comes at a loss of direct control over specific locations and hardware; it can sometimes mean more complicated and ambiguous ownership and responsibility for services, software and data; as well as dispersed access and usage protocols and security measures. Keeping control is one of the main challenges of using the cloud as a secure service environment. During this workshop, different universities...
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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 –...
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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
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This workshop will take place on 26 April 2024, from 10:00 to 12:30 CEST, and it is jointly organised by GÉANT and EUNIS – the European University Information Systems organisation. Working in the cloud presents enormous advantages for R&E institutions and community members, but it can also pose particular challenges. To start with, the cloud comes at a loss of direct control over specific locations and hardware; it can sometimes mean more complicated and ambiguous ownership and responsibility for services, software and data; as well as dispersed access and usage protocols and security measures. Keeping control is one of the main challenges of using the cloud as a secure service environment. During this workshop, different universities...
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 –...
