WP2 – Engagement and Dissemination

HN Annual Review

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WP ObjectivesThe purpose of WP2 is to communicate that HELIX NEBULA – the Science Cloud - is the beginning of a new infrastructure being built in Europe through Public/Private Partnership and the benefits that will bring.

Specific goalsPresent policy-makers, funding agencies and infrastructure operators with an effective alternative to capital-intensive investment in e-infrastructuresEncourage scientists to see this "Science Cloud" as their first choice of working environment by demonstrating that concerns about putting research data and software ‘on the cloud’ are being addressed sensiblyMobilise the supplier community (especially telecoms providers, the IT industry and innovative SMEs) to participate and benefit from the public/private partnershipEnsure that publicity about HELIX NEBULA is positive and focuses on the efficiencies it brings to the research communities and the societal benefits that can result.

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Effort ContributionLead Beneficiary: CSA EMEA

Person-Months per Participant

Participant Person-months

EGI.eu 3.00

EMBL 1.00

T-Systems 1.00

Atos 3.00

CloudSigma 1.00

SAP 1.00

Logica Germany

1.00

CNR 1.00

CSA EMEA 15.00

TOTAL 27WP2

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WP2 Deliverables and Milestones – Period 1

Type Del. no Name Nature Dissemination level

Date Delivered

Deliverable 2.1 Communication Plan Report PU 05/09/2012

Milestone 5 Short-term Delivery-planning is complete

Report PU 11/12/2012

Milestone 6 Communication plan delivery

Report PU 19/06/2013

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Web site

Flagship use cases; How to become a member of the HN community; Events Highlights updated with related articles, announcements and news.Registration to NewsletterDirect link to the HN accounts in the social networksHN material online: HN video and interviews, as well as the HN flyer.

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Branding materials

Helix Nebula website graphic design templates (M1) Helix Nebula PowerPoint Presentation Template (M1) Helix Nebula deliverable templates (M1) Helix Nebula flyer (M5) Helix Nebula newsletter template (M4)

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Overall modifications, corrective actions, re-tuning of objectives

D2.1 Communication Plan updated withfeedback from T-Systems

Further collection of stakeholders compared to communication plan published in M3

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Scientific/technical achievements and their impact

Helix Nebula Architecture: 544 downloadsStrategic Plan for a Scientific Cloud Computing infrastructure for Europe: 282 downloadsCommunication Plan: 137 downloadsRequirements Template: 115 downloads

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Contribution to the disseminationof project results

Significant communication results: 14 new partners including 3 new candidates demand-side stakeholders+ additional interest in membership.Helix Nebula presented at 44 events to target audiences as set out in the Communication Plan, e.g:

- Policy makers, eScience end users, industry (4 events, e.g. RSA Conference, San Francisco, USA, 25 January-01 March 2013)

- Industry, government and research communities (5 events, e.g. EC Workshop on Towards an EU strategy of Cloud computing for government and science, Brussels, 26 November 2012)

- Industry and Service Providers (3 events: ISACA INSIGHTS, Berlin, 11 June 2013)- European eResearch (4 events, e.g. 10th e-Infrastructure Concentration Meeting, Brussels,

06-07 March 2013)- Academia & industry, Science and research (3 events, e.g. ISC Cloud’12,

Mannheim,Germany, 24 September 2012) etc.

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Helix Nebula initiative membersHelix Nebula Users Helix Nebula AdoptersHelix Nebula Suppliers

Atos

CloudSigma

Cloud Security Alliance

Dante - Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe

European Grid Infrastructure

Interoute

Logica

SAP

SixSq

T-Systems

Terradue

The Server Labs

European Organisation for Nuclear Research

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

European Space Agency

Centre National d'Études Spatiales

German Aerospace Center

Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment at the National Research Council

AWST - Applied Science, Software and Technology

Capgemini

Orange

Telefonica

Thales

Trust-IT Services

Switch

ECMWF

OpenNebula

Ifremer

CNRS

Trinity College Dublin

Visio Terra – Science Consulting for Earth Observation 10

Communication ActivitiesHelix Nebula website complete 3 Helix Nebula articles published by the HN consortium3 newsletters24 articles written by

outside organizations mention HN (HPC, ISGTW,

CORDIS news etc) - GigaOM network broadcasted video on HN.

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Online Presence

31 videos (including ESRIN HN Public event ‘Results and Engagement’)30 interviews/articles (including at GigaOM Structure Data in October 2012)

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Social Media MetricsFacebook: - 284 total likes - 91.980 friends of fans - 178 Weekly Total Reach

Twitter: - 50 re-tweeted posts from January-June 2013 - 53 other accounts’ tweets mention Helix Nebula - 46 new followers from January-June 2013

LinkedIn: - From 122 to 137 members (31% senior, 20% managers, 11% Entry, 8% CXO, 8% Director, 7% owner)

- 15 on-going discussions

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Website Analytics

Total page views across all pages on the site from June 2012-June 2013: 28.578

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Dissemination Activities

Events Participation- Visibility- New partner members- Commercial, social project impactNumber of participated events:

- 44 past events published on website

At least 11 more upcoming events.

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Exploitation and use of foreground

Publication of the results of the security assessment as a STAR registry entry Use CSA Cloud Control Matrix and Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) to conduct security challenge in HN Presentation of results at CSA’s EMEA Congress in Edinburgh, September 2013

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Collaboration with other beneficiaries

Advisory on the project on Virtual Machine image validation.Contribution to security requirements through WP3 and WP5. STAR (Cloud Security Alliance Security, Trust and Assurance Registry) entry for the Helix Nebula Blue box.

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Interaction with other FP7 projectsand stakeholders outside the consortium

HN Presented to:A4CloudCUMULUSCIRRUS44 eventsCSA membership – e.g. at CSA events.

Potential new supply and demand-side membersSupplier co-operation – e.g. with Enstratius

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