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Partner Webinar: Transforming Research & Education through AI & Cloud 3rd October 15:00-16:00 CEST (14:00-15:00 BST)

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...

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Cloud Management & Security – Insights from the GÉANT-EUNIS Joint Cloud Workshop

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...

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Cloud side events at TNC24 – GÉANT Cloud Horizons, Frameworks and Sensitive Data + SIG CISS

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...

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GÉANT announces publication of OCRE 2024 tender for pan-European cloud services procurement

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...

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Cloud Management & Security – Insights from the GÉANT-EUNIS Joint Cloud Workshop

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...

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Cloud side events at TNC24 – GÉANT Cloud Horizons, Frameworks and Sensitive Data + SIG CISS

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...

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GÉANT announces publication of OCRE 2024 tender for pan-European cloud services procurement

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...

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From the OCRE project to EOSC Future – lessons learned in commercial cloud procurement

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...

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Partner Webinar: Transforming Research & Education through AI & Cloud 3rd October 15:00-16:00 CEST (14:00-15:00 BST)

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...

Read More

Cloud Management & Security – Insights from the GÉANT-EUNIS Joint Cloud Workshop

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...

Read More

Cloud side events at TNC24 – GÉANT Cloud Horizons, Frameworks and Sensitive Data + SIG CISS

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...

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GÉANT announces publication of OCRE 2024 tender for pan-European cloud services procurement

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...

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