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Helix Nebula Engagement Plan

Title: Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud Engagement Plan Partner Responsible: CSA EMEA Work Package: WP2-Engagement and Dissemination Actual Submission Date: 18/12/2013 Distribution: Public Nature: Report

Abstract: The purpose of this document is to detail the strategy of the Helix Nebula outreach

plan to engage e-infrastructures’ constituency, scientific communities, and policy makers.

1 This document produced by Members of the Helix Nebula Partners and Consortium is licensed under a Creative

Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://helix-nebula.eu/ The Helix Nebula project is co-funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement no 312301

1. Introduction As described in the Communication Plan (D2.1 Communication Plan), one of the specific goals of the Helix Nebula Communication and Dissemination Strategy is to encourage target users to see Helix Nebula as a first choice working environment. The first year of the project has been fundamental:

• To create awareness about the Helix Nebula initiative and objectives, gaining high visibility through several media channels and relevant events.

• To develop and test the first three user-flagships. • To refine the technical architecture of Helix Nebula. • To identify the most suitable business models.

After a full year of activity, Helix Nebula has succeeded in moving from a pilot phase towards a service environment. The test phase of the three first flagships will end in 2013, the deployment of new flagships will start at the end of 2013 and 2014 will mark the start of the production phase. These important changes need to be accompanied and driven by an appropriate communication, dissemination and engagement strategy for the uptake of a range of Helix Nebula services and maximize their impact. This document gives an overview of the engagement process, coordinated by WP2, which will be implemented/operated by the Helix Nebula consortium. The main objectives of the plan are the following:

Promote a series of user friendly services ready by early 2014 & deliver as a fact sheet? Identify and prioritize potential users (Pilot list of users) Identify a set of actions to engage and educate potential users on the benefits of using

HN Services rather than other existing cloud services The plan covers the period from September 2013 to May 2014 (8 months).

2. Helix Nebula Services & related engagement strategies The main objective of the Helix Nebula initiative for the next eight months is to promote the following three lines of services:

1. Helix Nebula Generic Cloud Computing Services: Helix Nebula can provide on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources: high-bandwidth network connectivity, large sets of commodity servers, federated storage with secure data layers, easy to deploy cloud software appliances for user applications, infrastructure management and monitoring services.



2. Helix Nebula Information as a Service (InfoaaS): The sale of aggregated and analyzed data in the cloud.

3. Helix Nebula best practices: Helix Nebula can provide a series of Cloud Computing best practices (SLAs, flagships results) fundamental for the European and International cloud computing uptake.

The three lines of services differ extensively. The first two services are related to the technical development of the Helix Nebula infrastructure: the generic cloud computing services have matured and will go into production in 2014 (they were thoroughly tested in the first year); the InfoaaS is at an early stage of development and won’t be operational before the end of the EC project (May 2014). The third service: the provision of HN best practices is a service aspect from which the entire European and international community can benefit and is mostly related to the documentation of results and the dissemination of the Helix Nebula expertise. Three different communication, dissemination and engagement strategies will be adopted for the above mentioned services.

Objectives of the Helix Nebula Generic Cloud Computing Services engagement strategy:

Provide detailed information about the set of services through a website revamp and targeted communication (newsletter, press releases, etc.)

Identify and engage a first set of potential users who can test and use the Helix Nebula services (starting from the new user flagships)

Provide trial access to the services in order to enlarge as much as possible the user database and boost the infrastructure uptake (by early 2014).

Objectives of the Helix Nebula Information as a Service (InfoaaS) engagement

strategy: as these services are at the stage of development, the objective for the next eight months is to start promoting them so as to create awareness and interest about this future offer (website revamp & targeted communication starting with the January 2014 press release).

Objectives of the Helix Nebula cloud computing best practices engagement strategy:

the main objective is to spread the Helix Nebula results and knowledge to the wider public and policy makers in order to maximize the initiative political and social impact (through again the website revamp, publications of success stories, and the final public event in May 2014).



3. Target Groups identification For each of the three services mentioned above, potential target groups have been identified. The table below shows the target groups identified and the different set of actions planned to maximize engagement and outreach. HN Services Target Group Action Plan Stakeholders Helix Nebula Generic Cloud Computing Services

Data generators: • Big research infrastructure,

(RI), installations or medium size labs, simulation & computing centres

• Research projects involving cloud computing communities

• Individual researchers

• Understanding the services overlap

between existing infrastructures / computing centers

• Investigating how HN can collaborate & offer complementary services

• Organisation of ad-hoc F2F meetings • Signature of MoUs • Presentation of HN Services at RI

relevant events to reach the target communities

• Showcase of HN results through events participation

• Understand potential collaboration • Website revamp highlighting HN

success stories & services • Promotion activities through HN social

networks

• EGI – InSPIRE • EUDAT • GÉANT • LinkSceem2 • National Grid Initiatives • NERSC – National Energy Research

Computing Centre • Net+ • PRACE • Science Gateways Institute • TERENA • Xsede • CloudWATCH support action • FP7 Call 10 Cloud computing

projects • FI WIRE



Domain-related Scientific communities: • New flagships • Research Projects

• Pilot phase development • Create specific User Fact sheet with

the Helix Nebula targeted offer (User fact sheet will be disseminated at events and promoted on the website)

• Establish contacts with the relevant initiatives

• Showcase HN best practices

• European Centre for Medium-Range

Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) • Port d'Informació Científica (PIC) • UNESCO • ESFRI projects • EU-Brazil Cloud Connect • GEOWOW • iMarine • LAMPRE

Government & Public Administrations

• Participation at EC events and workshops such as Concertation meetings, and engagement with national funding agencies/research councils e.g. JISC and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) or regional organisations/ associations of funding agencies i.e. NordForsk

• National funding agencies (projects members)

Helix Nebula Information as a Service

Business (Manufacturing; Strategy Consulting; Financial Sector; Health Sector; Oil Industry etc.)

• Awareness creation through website revision (new home page highlighting HN offering and related target users); Massive promotion through a press release (March 2013);

• Potential user engagement through the final May 2014 event;

• Target group events & conferences

Public (Universities; Military; Governments; Schools etc.)

Helix Nebula cloud Policy Makers & International • Participation and Involvement into • Cloudscape VI



computing best practices provision

Initiatives, Events Discussion forums (i.e. RDA, ECP Steering Board, eIRG, EIROFOrum)

• Best practices showcase publication distributed to policy makers

• Participation to cloud related events where policy makers are prevalent

• eIRG • EARTO • European Cloud Partnership &

Cloud for Europe initiative • EIRO Forum • RDA – Research Data Alliance

4. Detailed engagement plan The table below describes specific actions to engage target stakeholders identified for the promotion and uptake of the generic cloud computing services and best practices. For each stakeholder, the value added for Helix Nebula has been identified. Many of these stakeholders could be of interest to Helix Nebula and since many others could be singled out in the following months, we have decided to prioritize the list as to clarify the engagement plan. By December 2013 the focus will be put on the engagement of “High priority” stakeholders. Stakeholders with “Medium priority” will be addressed by May 2014 while for “Low priority” stakeholders only general dissemination actions are foreseen given the high amount of activities scheduled in the period.

1.1.1 Data Generators Stakeholders Actions How they can help

HN? Priority Main partner responsible

EGI - InSPIRE • Develop an agreed roadmap to achieve interoperability between the EGI Federated Cloud and the Helix Nebula suppliers. EGI Federated Cloud representatives and Helix Nebula suppliers will contribute to the implementation of the agreed

• Promote HN cloud services within the EGI community through HN participation in EGI events (including ICT2013 where HN can

High EGI.eu: Sergio Andreozzi ([email protected]) EGI.eu: Carmela Asero ([email protected])



mailto:[email protected]

recommendations in line with the available efforts. The final roadmap together with the implementation progress and the activities to be performed in future projects will be documented in the Helix Nebula D6.2.

• Contribution to preparation of EGI.eu- Helix Nebula marketplace (HNX) MoU for the transition to service production phase.

• Engagement of EGI.eu with one or more Helix Nebula research institutions (ESA and CERN) to develop a plan to demonstrate interoperability between the EGI Federated Cloud and the Helix Nebula suppliers. This activity will include the run of one or more of the Helix Nebula flagship applications on the EGI Federated Cloud with the aim to also run a more advanced test within a hybrid scenario also integrating Helix Nebula’s Blue Box operated by commercial cloud providers. In particular, the deployment of the CERN flagship application will focus on the hybrid model where new capabilities expected for the production phase of Helix Nebula will be tested.

• Participation to the HN December 2013 supply-demand side meeting.

• HN cloud services promotion at EGI events EGI Technical Forum, 2013 - ICT2013, November 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania at EGI Exhibition booth, EGI Community Forum 2014. EGI.eu will investigate opportunities for HN to participate in events addressing wider audiences and policy makers (such as

outreach to a bigger ICT audience);

• Showcase to policy makers how public EGI and HN suppliers can work together on a hybrid model



the 2nd European Innovation Convention organized by the European Commission DG RTD on 10-11 March 2013) or ad hoc public event to showcase HN progress on its way to maturity/production phase.

• EGI.eu, in collaboration and with active participation of the Helix Nebula partners, to organize Helix Nebula Interoperability workshops in co-location with the EGI Technical Forum on 16-21 September 2013 in Madrid, Spain, and EGI Community Forum on 19-23 May 2014 in Helsinki, Finland.

• Enhancement of synergy and consistency in

the communication actions between Helix Nebula and EGI-InSPIRE project concerning common activities in the area of cloud and interoperability. The goal is achieving higher effectiveness in dissemination actions towards respective communities and stakeholders and policy makers by keeping each other party informed on respective activities in areas with a potential for cooperation. For EGI, the EGI.eu Strategy and Policy Team (SPT) will coordinate the periodic review of the progress of the activities defined above.

EUDAT • Closed F2F meeting at EUDAT second conference (Rome, 31 October 2013) to formally discuss EUDAT/HN collaboration.

• ESA keynote speech at the public October 2013 conference to showcase HN results &

• EUDAT could offer useful data services to be deployed in the hybrid HN cloud.

• EUDAT User Forum

High ESA: Maryline Lengert ([email protected]) CERN: Bob Jones ([email protected])



services. • Participation to the EUDAT User Forum

2014, http://eudat.eu/user-forum

Events could be useful to showcase HN offering to EUDAT User Communities (i.e. CLARIN project, ENES - European Network for Earth System Modeling, EPOS - European Plate Observing System , Life Watch, INCF - International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility , VPH - Virtual Physiological Human)

GÉANT • Dante and several NRENs (e.g. Switch) are members of the HN initiative.

• Pilot phase: GÉANT will continue to provide connectivity services for the pilot phase.

• For the post-pilot phase it is necessary to revise the agreement between Helix Nebula and GÉANT.

• For the post pilot phase, GÉANT can be key to settlement peering with IaaS providers (free of charge or IaaS providers could contribute to cost of GÉANT). GÉANT could also play a role in brokering for R&E user base (connected to NRENs)

High DANTE: Roberto Sabatino ([email protected])

LinkSceem2 • Contact establishment • Promote HN cloud services to South East Europe and the middle-East

Low TBD

National Grid

• Direct interaction with representatives at key events, exploring cloud services and common goals.

• Draw on initial experiences and scale out across EU28 by

Medium EGI.eu: Carmela Asero, ([email protected] ) Neasan O’Neill





Initiatives • Raising awareness of HN in NGI community and users via NGI International Liaisons (NILs) with targeted communication

raising awareness of HELIX NEBULA & its services.

• Cross dissemination activities according to HN – EGI-InSPIRE engagement

([email protected] )

NERSC – National Energy Research Computing Centre (USA)

• Contact establishment • Promote HN cloud services in the USA and to a wide range of disciplines (climate modeling, research into new materials, simulations of the early universe, analysis of data from high energy physics experiments, investigations of protein structure, and a host of other scientific endeavors)

Low Sudip Dosanjh ([email protected])

Net+ • Establish contacts • Promote HN cloud services to US universities; Compare advances and issues as they are doing similar work to HN

Low TBD

PRACE • Establish contact • Showcase of HN results & offering at PRACE

events - PRACE Industrial Seminar 2014 - Towards a globally competitive HPC eco-system in Europe, 22-23 May 2014 ,

• Essential in modeling part of the public side ecosystem;

• User base expansion

Medium Contact established at ICT 2013 where HN & PRACE presented as part of the HPC session





Barcelona, Spain, http://www.prace-ri.eu/PRACE-Industrial-Seminar-2014

Science Gateways Institute

• Establish contacts • Promote HN cloud services to US scientific web developers across NSF, across agencies, and across international boundaries.

Low TBD

TERENA • HN promotion at the FIM4R and REFEDS Meeting (Bob Jones speaker) September 30th - October 1st, 2013 Espoo, Finland https://refeds.org/meetings/oct13/index.html

• Could help engaging with NRENs and raise awareness of HN & the cloud services provided for eScience

Medium CERN: Bob Jones ([email protected])

XSEDE • (https://www.xsede.org/home) is similar to PRACE in Europe. With a set of HPC centres: https://www.xsede.org/resources/overview

• Forward thinking to build an ecosystem

Low Victor Hazlewood, Deputy Director of Operations chief operating officer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, US ([email protected])

CloudWatch • Participation at CloudWATCH events • CloudWATCH (www.cloudwatchhub.eu) is aimed at fostering the wider uptake of cloud across the public and private sectors CloudWATCH can offer HN a platform to showcase its use cases and benefits, as well as it services and

Medium TRUST-IT: Sara Garavelli ([email protected]), Nicholas Ferguson ([email protected])



http://www.prace-ri.eu/PRACE-Industrial-Seminar-2014

http://www.prace-ri.eu/PRACE-Industrial-Seminar-2014

https://refeds.org/meetings/oct13/index.html

https://refeds.org/meetings/oct13/index.html

https://www.xsede.org/resources/overview

https://www.xsede.org/resources/overview



outcomes. It can also evaluate the relevance of HN use cases with regard to the common standards profile.

FI WIRE • FI-WARE is building on top of OpenStack to arrange uniform cloud services by defining a standard API to which all applications should adhere.

• HN has been discussing finding/developing a standard north-bound API for the HN services and will further consider the adoption of the FI-WARE standard definition for the API.

• Developing a service model for Cloud Hosting that could be relevant for HN; Achieving FI -WIRE community

Medium Atos: Josep Matrat T-Systems: Jurry de la Mar ([email protected])

CIRRUS (www.cirrus-

project.eu)

Attended CIRRUS 3rd workshop (Vienna, 19 Nov 2013)

• Understand the relevance of cloud security developments for HN

Medium Bob Jones (CERN), Daniele Cattedu (CSA)

2.1.1 Domain-related scientific communities Stakeholders Actions How they can help

HN? Priority Main partner responsible

ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)

• Start the ERA Data Storage flagship deployment, December 2013; Creation of the ECMWF HN success story to be published on the website and promoted through media channels in May 2014

• Start exploitation model of the HN cloud infrastructure within a different scientific community (weather forecasts); Build a

High ESA



http://www.cirrus-project.eu/

http://www.cirrus-project.eu/

new HN success story to be used to promote and spread the knowledge about HN offering towards different & similar communities; Results showcase at HN final event in May 2014; Test the new "on boarding approach" that will be key for the involvement of future communities

Port d'Informació Científica (PIC)

• Start the flagship deployment. November 2013; Creation of the PIC HN success story to be published on the website and promoted through media channels May 2014

• Further test of the HN cloud infrastructure within a different scientific community (High Energy Physics, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Medical imaging); Build a new HN success story to be used to promote and spread the knowledge about HN offering towards different & similar communities; Results showcased at HN final event in May 2014; Test the new "on boarding

High CGI: Phil Evans ([email protected])



approach" that will be key for the involvement of future communities

ESFRI Projects • HN services promotion - DARIAH & CLARIN are two ESFRI projects aimed at building integrated and interoperable research infrastructures and supporting research user communities from the humanities and linguistics: EGI has two federated cloud use cases from these communities: linguistics and musicology. Interaction at events and meetings.

• Annual CLARIN meeting 21-22 October 2013 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.clarin.eu/node/3621

• Promotion of HN services to LIFEWATCH community (including related Biovel and ENVRI projects) building on recent deployment of BioVel openModeller web service on EGI’s Federated Cloud and to EUROBIOIMAGING users (including N4U project).

• User base expansion towards new potential communities. Possible exploitation of HN for the EPOS services.

• Presentation of HN at the 41st Workshop of the International School of Geophysics on “A Roadmap for Earth Science in Europe: The next generation of Geophysical Research Infrastructures”

• 3rd CoPoRI Workshop on Exchange of Experience - 4-5 December 2013 in Brussels

• 2nd International

Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2014) 2-4 April 2014

High EGI.eu: Carmela Asero ([email protected]) CERN: Bob Jones ([email protected]) ESA: Wolfgang Lengert ([email protected]) Giuseppe Pulisi



http://www.clarin.eu/node/3621

in Athens, Greece

• EPOS data centers could be integrated to HN via GEANT. It has started with FUTURVOLC and the Italian EC Supersite project MEDSUV should follow. Furthermore US data centers should be connected via GEANT-Internet2 (also this has started, but the performance was not convincing). It would be good if EPOS would sign the NDA.

EU_Brazil Cloud Connect

• HN will consider the scientific scenarios as use cases for its cloud service with the aim of investigating the relevance of the HN model beyond Europe's border.

• HN will maximise its co-operation with Cloud Connect also through Cloudscape Brazil (1 event/year).

• International expansion in Brazil, New communities engagement (Epidemiology Analysis, Heart Simulation, Climate Change)

Medium TRUST-IT: Sara Garavelli ([email protected]) , Silvana Muscella ([email protected])

GEOWOW (GEOSS interoperability for Weather, Ocean and Water)

• MoU with GEOWOW FP7 initiative describing agreement to: o Start the OCIS flagship

deployment (date to be TBD -

• Further test of the HN cloud infrastructure within a different scientific community;

High Terradue: Hervé Caumont ([email protected]) ESA



OCIS: Ocean and Coastal Information Supersites WDIS: Weather Data and Information Supersites

F2Fmeeting in October 2013); Creation of the GEOWOW OCIS/ HN success story to be published on the website and promoted through media channels in May 2013

o Start the WDIS flagship deployment date to be TBD - F2Fmeeting in October 2013); Creation of the GEOWOW WDIS/ HN success story to be published on the website and promoted through media channels May 2013)

• Disseminate the HN success story to understand if the Earth science community can benefit from HN cloud services; Organise specific F2F meeting to discuss potential collaboration through Terradue (HN suppliers & GEOWOW partner)

• Build a new HN success story to be used to promote and spread the knowledge about HN offering towards different & similar communities (enlarge Ocean community, including IFREMER and alike…); Results showcase at HN final event in May 2014;

• On-boarding and deployments are performed by GEOWOW (Terradue)

• High profile use cases, and a larger pool of new users

• Leverage existing IaaS for storage and compute power combine offerings from IaaS and InfoaaS providers.

iMarine - data e-infrastructure initiative for fisheries management and the conservation

• MoU with iMarine FP7 project; • Participation to the final iMarine

event

• Provision of capabilities to transform data to standard formats, of advanced analysis facilities and specific community tools (i.e.

Low Terradue: Hervé Caumont ([email protected])



of marine living resources

tools based on predictive mapping algorithms);

• Promotion of HN services to the fisheries, biodiversity and environmental communities

• Leverage existing IaaS for storage and compute power, investigating on both a Pay-as-you-go and a subscription (e.g. yearly) models.

LAMPRE (LAndslide Modelling & tools for vulnerability assessment Preparedness & REcovery mgmt) & DORIS

• Disseminate the HN success story to understand if the LAMPRE community can benefit from HN cloud services

• New potential community; Exploitation platform concept using HN through ESA Supersites

• DORIS has high

potential to bring in a commercial Component of the exploitation platform building a new market place. Also the problem of money ingestion could be analyzed and

Medium ESA: Wolfgang Lengert ([email protected]) Project Coordinator ([email protected]) & a supplier representative to make DORIS services in an ecosystem model operational Starting with a telco and probably a F2F meeting involving also the EC DORIS PM Stefano Fontana. He is also in charge of MyOcean2, which is a big Copernicus downstream service. Expected outcome of the telco should be a sound understanding of the market




exercised. • The signature of the

NDA for both DORIS & LAMPRE is foreseen for early January 2014.

potential and identification of missing pieces (e.g. how is money paid for services and how do contributors of the value adding chain get their shares (money)?

CIRCE (http://www.circe-space.eu)

• Attended "Second CIRCE Workshop: ISS data preservation"

• 26-27 November 2013 • Royal Observatory of Belgium,

Brussels • Contacts established with

coordinator of CIRCE

• In this phase, CIRCE is exploring collaborations with e-Infrastructures providers for service offering.

• HN could be a cloud platform of choice for services related to exploitation of ISS data.

Medium EGI.eu: Carmela Asero

3.1.1 Government & Public Administrations Stakeholders Actions How they can help HN? Priority Main partner

responsible National funding agencies (project members)

• EuroRisNet+ project as a way of establishing a link with national contacts. Development of a strategy is required.

• Participation to eChallenges 2013 09 - 11 October 2013 Dublin, Ireland http://www.echallenges.org/e2013/

• Raise awareness about HN as well as on the Value & feasibility of cloud for eScience

• Establish agreements for political & financial support as future sustainability depends upon successful buy–in from

Medium ESA: Maryline Lengert CERN: Bob Jones



http://www.circe-space.eu/

http://www.circe-space.eu/

such organisations that can influence the direction of future eScience research.



4.1.1 Policy Makers & International Initiatives Stakeholders Actions How they can help HN? Priority Main partner

responsible Cloudscape-VI - 24-25 February 2014 Brussels Belgium

• "Cloud for a smart economy & smart society", looking at best practices that can be more widely replicated across the public and private sectors with practical, hands-on tutorials to convey benefits and how to get started. Located during the same week as Cloud Expo, 26-27 Feb in London, enabling participants to attend both events.

• HN will be part of the plenary session of the event and a designated user will present a use case and a member of HNX will demonstrate the production platform.

• Opportunity for HN to showcase cost-benefit features under one of the most relevant heading “How to use the Cloud” sessions providing practical, effective approaches on: Cloud Pricing; Pan-European Storage in Cloud; Open Source Clouds; Business use & strategies for the cloud; Cloud services & tools for research & education; European regulations; Private cloud installations & legal issues governing uptake and usage

Medium TRUST-IT: Sara Garavelli ([email protected]), Nicholas Ferguson ([email protected])

eIRG & ESFRI - e-Infrastructure policy groups

• Influence through the White papers. HN presented to influence member states and the EC through national representatives A first contact already established - HN presentation at the -IRG workshop in 2012 in Copenhagen

• Gain new insights & actively participate to the development of future policies

• Use e-IRG as a forum to discuss the sustainability of publicly funded

Medium CERN: Bob Jones ([email protected]) EGI.eu: Sergio Andreozzi ([email protected])







• Participation at e-IRG meetings and workshops (i.e. e-IRG Workshop & Meeting, 4-5 November 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania, http://www.e-irg.eu/e-irg-events/workshop-4-5-nov-2013.html)

• Contribution to e-IRG white papers as editors as well as by providing input though the calls for public comment

infrastructures with EC member funding agencies

• Interact with representatives from ESFRI to gain new insights into emerging policy strategies and their relation to e-Infrastructures

• Support the Implementation of hybrid cloud and discuss public/private funding; governance & business models

EARTO European Association of research and Technology Organisations

• Contact establishment • Might be interested in HN services. Useful for marketing purposes

Medium TBD

European Cloud Partnership & Cloud for Europe initiative

• Launch Conference for CloudforEurope - November 14 and 15 in Berlin. An opportunity to see how industry can get involved (tendering process) and for HN to be recognized as a flagship and to contribute to the work packages.

• ECP (9 members states) will support and look to expand 3 pilot projects: Academy Cube, Helix Nebula and X-Trans (software AG)

• Leverage the Industry and Member States represented in the Steering Board to create awareness about Helix Nebula services at Member States level

• Opportunity to help define European Cloud Computing Strategy

• Give a clear view on the

High ESA: Maryline Lengert ([email protected])



public sector requirements and usage scenarios for cloud computing beyond national borders

• Establish security & contractual terms & conditions for future cloud procurements

EIROforum - the forum of the European Research Organisations

• As Member organisations of EIROforum CERN, EMBL and ESA can provide visibility through the forum channels

• Report on HN status to EIROforum IT working group.

• Raise awareness of HN & the cloud services provided for eScience - Proposals for the hybrid public-commercial cloud model from EIROforum

Medium HN presented at the EIROforum (TWG) meeting in 2013. HN taken as a key element in the EIROforum e-infrastructure publications. More EIROforum labs intend to sign the NDA in early 2014.

RDA - Research Data Alliance

• Numerous working groups have been created for a bottom-up and interdisciplinary approach - HN can join these WGs to gather insights and provide input. This could be timely considering that the data challenges in each of the use cases are relevant to the various RDA working groups

• Participation and interaction at the Plenary events: 3rd Plenary, scheduled for 26-28 March 2014 Dublin, Ireland https://rd-alliance.org/rda-third-plenary-meeting.html

• Gain insights and influence future developments

• Raise awareness of HN and what it consists of.

Medium TRUST-IT: Hilary Hanahoe ([email protected])



EuroCloud - independent non-profit organization where every European country can apply to participate in as long as they respect the EuroCloud Statutes.

• Avenues of potential collaboration will be explored in January

• Establish contacts

• Will help to go to big promotion after the suppliers’ press release

Undetermined yet

ESA: Maryline Lengert

FitSM • The proposed Open Source ESB may include sufficient tooling for at least HN immediate FIM needs; It is planned to hold two full days of training and workshop, spread over the three days of 13-15 January 2014:

• The first sessions (two half-days) will be a training on FitSM, to ensure as a level-set that a common understanding and vocabulary; the second set of sessions (also two half-days) will be a workshop to agree on how the framework will be implemented within HNX (the

• The FitSM structure for service management, could be useful to deploy the FitSM standard, which was developed under an EC FP7 project, originally for the FedSM project. FedSM address service, as opposed to infrastructure, management;

• Inter-supplier arrangements will be key, and will especially

High CGI: Phil Evans



Helix Nebula Marketplace). concentrate on how the broker role links things together;

• Having a defined catalogue of services is a good starting point;

They have produced an amount of supporting material, which will be made available; They try to act as a catalyst, concentrating on process rather than the content.



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