Life Sciences Cloud workshop, 16 March 2015, Cambridge, UK
This workshop, hosted by EMBL-EBI, brought together representatives of the life science research community with service providers from both within and outside the life science community such as...
View ArticleData Location Workshop, 26 February 2015, Brussels
On 26th February 2015, Atos attended the workshop on Data Location Restrictions organised by the European Commission.The workshop discussed legal constraints and security issues pertaining to data...
View ArticleDG-RTD Roundtable Discussion, 10 February 2015, Washington DC, USA
Robert Jenkins (CloudSigma) presented the Helix Nebula concept of federation of data and enabling technology, allowing the creation of easy interactions of intellectual property owners to derive within...
View ArticleA new start for Europe: Opening up to an ERA of Innovation, 22-23 June 2015,...
On the 22-23 June 2015, Bob Jones, CERN & PICSE Coordination and Helix Nebula Initiative Chair, attended the workshop "A new start for Europe: Opening up to an ERA of Innovation". This workshop...
View ArticleOn April 2015 Géant has launched a tender for cloud IaaS providers - Tender...
Pan-European research and education network Géant is on the hunt for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers who can offer its members secure access to the public cloud.
View ArticleCERN Keeps Options Open With Its Clouds
Along with other European generators of big science, the European Space Agency (ESA) and European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL), CERN participated for a number of years in a European Commission-funded...
View ArticleEuropean Commission calls for cloud data protection law reforms
Speaking at the Datacloud Europe Event in Monaco on 3 June, Pearse O’Donoghue, the European Commission’s (EC) head of software, services and cloud computing, said the use of off-premise technologies...
View ArticleEuropean labs set sights on continent-wide computing cloud, article on Nature
Giant public–private computing network would fulfil the European Commission’s vision of an open-research platform. From astronomy to genomics, scientists are increasingly storing and studying their...
View ArticleICT2015: PICSE networking session - Fast forward to the digital single...
The acquisition of IT services is a key function in any organisation, public or private. Cloud computing means new ways of procuring services. In this session we’ll look at how the public sector and...
View ArticleEuropean science cloud on the horizon
Europe’s researchers have access to super-fast networks, common data storage facilities, and shared computing resources. The challenge now is to link them all together into a single science cloud.
View ArticleCloud Research Innovation Towards the European Open Science Cloud session at...
Bob Jones, CERN & PICSE Coordinator & Helix Nebula Initiative co-chair, will give the keynote presentation "Towards the European Open Science Cloud" at the EuroCloud Forum 2015 which takes...
View ArticleCloud for Europe PCP tender Results Announcement Ceremony and Certification...
The Cloud for Europe PCP tender Results Announcement Ceremony will take place on the 10th of September 2015 in Rome, followed by a Certification Workshop on 11 September 2015. Both events are held as...
View Article"Providing better public services through cloud computing" article on SCIENCE...
The PICSE project recently published a report on the experiences of ten European public sector organizations that have either carried out a process to procure cloud services, or are considering doing...
View ArticleCloud28+ : Europes Cloud of Cloud
In the “Procuring cloud services today” report released a few weeks ago by PICSE, based on experiences of 10 public sector organisations across Europe, one of the key outcomes included in the public...
View ArticlePICSE newsletter is out! Cloud procurement made easy: insights from PICSE
Are you from Public Sector & Are you Procuring Cloud Services through a Tender Procedure? Then look no further as this newspiece covers all you need to know to get it right...
View ArticleThe Helix Nebula Initiative welcomes HNSciCloud
Driven by the Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) commitment of leading research organisations from across Europe, HNSciCloud creates a competitive marketplace of innovative cloud services serving...
View ArticleOpen Day Event: Towards the European Open Science Cloud
Cloud computing, innovation and open science have become European priorities and now is the time to turn political will into functioning services. Many stakeholder groups can contribute to this goal...
View ArticleHNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement Open Market Consultation (OMC)
Participate in the HNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement Open Market Consultation (OMC), 17 March 2016, at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
View ArticleEuropean Commission awards its first Cloud contracts
The award decision for the first Call for Tender for Cloud Services (CLOUD I) was signed. The European Commission received 20 offers from 12 tenderers: 7 offers for Lot one, 9 offers for Lot two and 4...
View ArticleThe call for free eafip assistance has re-opened! Don't miss this opportunity!
Interested in starting a Pre-Commercial Procurement or a Public Procurement of Innovation?Ask the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement for a free consultancy!
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