European Grid Initiative

Technical Forum

21 September 2011, Lyon

The Digital Agenda for Europe

What about the Cloud?

Carl-Christian Buhr

European Commission

(All expressed views are those of the speaker.)http://slidesha.re/eucloud2

The European Commission as...

...Policy MakerLaunches policy debatesInvites Member States to take actionProposes EU legislation

...Funding AgencyResearch & Innovation projects

...Infrastructure BuilderFunds infrastructuresFunds relevant researchSupports networking activities

Neelie Kroes

Maroš Šefčovič

Digital Agenda

e-Commission,

ISA

Michel Barnier

Procurement

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/ Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

R&I, ERA

Some propose, all 27 adopt

Viviane Reding

Data Protection

... and often these need to agree

http://europarl.europa.eu/

http://consilium.europa.eu/

European Parliament

Council of the European Union

http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU,@NeelieKroesEU

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

DAE

101 Actions

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http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

101 Actions

Advising on...

Research PolicyICT Standardisatione-InfrastructuresCloud Computing Strategyetc.

http://bit.ly/cc_buhr,@ccbuhr

The Digital Agenda for Europe

“ Europe should also […] [reinforce] eInfrastructures and […] should develop an EU-wide strategy on 'cloud computing' notably for government and science. […] The strategy should consider economic, legal and institutional aspects.”

A Digital Agenda for Europe (COM(2010)245, 19.05.2010),http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0245(01):EN:NOT

Why?

“ Now is the time to bring it all together. […] This goes beyond a policy framework. I want to make Europe not just ‘cloud-friendly’ but ‘cloud-active’.”

Neelie Kroes, 27 January 2011

1. Economic potential for supply & demand2. Cloud computing happens: to or with us?3. Many Commission actions have an impact

When?

“[T]he deliverable is a document combining analysis and a plan of future actions. I want to have this in place no later than 2012.”

Neelie Kroes, 27 January 2011

What?

“First, the legal framework: users' rights, data protection and privacy - including the global aspects […].

Second, technical and commercial fundamentals: boosting research efforts, and focussing them on critical issues such as security and reliability.

Third, the market: we will support pilot projects for cloud deployment, and push public procurers into action.”

Neelie Kroes, 22 March 2011

Process so far1. Expert Reports: Opportunities for European Cloud Computing Beyond 2010, Security and Resilience in Governmental Clouds (ENISA)

2. Public online consultation(16 May-31 August, results will be online)

3. Consulations with industry (23 May, report is being finalised)

4. Digital Agenda Assembly Cloud Workshop(17 June, presentations online)

E.g. 2. Pillar: Research

EGI-InSPIRE: Persistent eInfrastructure w/ clouds for science (€25m)

RESERVOIR: Develop technology for IaaS clouds (€10m)

VENUS-C: Develop and deploy cloud service for research and industry

with virtualisation platform (€4.5m)

Eurocloud: Develop "servers on a chip" based on ARM (€3.3m)

StratusLab: Develop an open source cloud distribution (€2.3m)

SIENA: Co-ordinate adoption and evolution of interoperable cloud and

grid infrastructures with open standards (€0.41m)

etc.

Scientificdata

http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave

” Our Vision is a scientific e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data. In a sense [...] the data themselves become the infrastructure – a valuable asset, on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance”.

E.g. 3. Pillar: Market

CIP Work programme 2011

“Objective 4.1: Towards a cloud of public services” (p.27) (Several pilos, funding up to €10m)

Cloud will also be covered in CIP Work programmes For 2012 and 2013.

Pooling procurement

“...push public procurers into action.”

“Let me just dare to look a bit into the future. In the US there is a large framework contract for cloud computing that can be used on all levels of government. This pools a lot of procurement power. If anything, this can ‘move the market’ – and the public administrations. What would we need to do to pull off something like this in Europe?”

Neelie Kroes, 23 May 2011

But how?“What would we need to do to pull off

something like this in Europe?”

One Example: European Cloud Computing Strategic Plan*

– Valuable experience– Focus on effectiveness/cost– Similar requirements– Pooling of resources attractive– Public sector– Natural to align with EU targets– role-model for other organisations– etc.

*Inter-governmental research organisations (EIROforum) defining common requirements and procuring together, where possible. Aim: Prevent lock-in, prompt suitable supply in Europe.

Selected Pointers

Cloud Computing Homepage of the Commissionhttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/cloudcomputing/index_en.htm

The Digital Agenda for Europehttp://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

Neelie Kroes Speecheshttp://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/686http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/50http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/199

Riding the wave – Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, October 2010

http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave

The Future of Cloud Computing: Opportunities for European Cloud Computing Beyond 2010, January 2010http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/docs/cloud-report-final.pdf

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