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The Helix Nebula Initiative is a partnership between industry, space and science to establish a dynamic ecosystem, benefiting from open cloud services for the seamless integration of science into a business environment. Today, the partnership counts over 40 public and private partners.

Helix Nebula Initiative & PICSE: Enabling a Dynamic Cloud Ecosystem in Europe on iSGTW

Over 50 managers, cloud providers, policy makers, procurers and researchers dealing with the adoption of cloud computing gathered recently for the workshop “Enabling a Dynamic Cloud Ecosystem". The event was hosted by the European Space Agency, ESA ESRIN in Frascati, Italy and organized by the Helix Nebula Initiative - HNI (www.helix-nebula.eu) and the newly-launched project, Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe - PICSE (www.picse.eu), both supporting the uptake of cloud computing in Europe.

Read more at http://www.isgtw.org/announcement/helix-nebula-initiative-picse-enabling-dynamic-cloud-ecosystem-europe

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Helix Nebula Initiative & PICSE_ Enabling a Dynamic Cloud Ecosystem in Europe _ iSGTW.pdf

HELIX NEBULA PARTNERSHIP

Helix Nebula is a new, pioneering partnership between leading IT providers and four of Europe’s biggest research centres, CERN, EMBL, ESA and PIC, charting a course towards sustainable cloud services for the research communities - the Science Cloud.

Atos SE (Societas europaea) is an international information technology services company with annual 2013 revenue of EUR...

CERN is the world’s largest particle physics lab and home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful...

CloudEO AG, created in 2012 and based in Munich (Germany), brings data, software and processing po

CloudSigma AG is a public Infrastructure‐as‐a‐Service (IaaS) provider offering a virtual data center product through a...

Cloudwatt is a Public Cloud Service Provider offering use cases like calculation and big data to h

The National Research Council (CNR) is the main public research entity in Italy aimed at carrying out, promoting,...

The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Centre for Scientific Research) is a government-funded...

DataCentred is a leading provider of next-generation data centre and open-source cloud computing s

DESY is one of the world’s leading accelerator centres. Researchers use the large-scale facilities at DESY to explore...

The Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange (DBCE) is a vendor-neutral marketplace for cloud resources.

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an independent intergovernmental

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is one of the world’s top research institutions dedicated to basic...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space...

ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the...

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) is one of the most powerful synchrotron radiation source in Europe.

Exoscale is an established and recognized Swiss player in the Infrastructure as a Service field since 2011.

GÉANT is the pan-European research and education network that interconnects Europe’s National Research and Education...

iNNOVO is able to provide newest processor technology through the HPC OpenStack platform to the science network.

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is The Research University in the Helmholtz Association.

PIC, (Port d’Informació Científica: "Scientific Information Port"), is a data center of excellence for scientific-data...

Prologue Group is a software editor and service provider in the fields of cloud computing, demater

Q-Leap Networks is all about Linux clustering. Their Cluster OS Qlustar is a full-fledged platform to implement, manage...

SixSq develops and delivers cloud solutions, agile applications and tools. We also deliver software services and...

The Science and Technology Facilities Council is a UK government body that carries out civil research in science and...

Stichting EGI was established as a Dutch Foundation ‐ an independent legal entity – in February 2010 and is located at...

As a non-profit organisation, SWITCH guarantees Switzerland’s access to the Internet. One hundred employees work on a...

The Server Labs is a European IT company, specialising in IT architectures, software engineering and is a leading...

T‐Systems is Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customer arm, serving companies in all industries: automotive...

Ultimum Technologies s.r.o. is a European provider of OpenStack-powered Infrastructure as a Service for public clouds,...