Defining WHAT we will procure – what type of services – and for WHO exactly – which NRENs and organisations – will then determine HOW we will run the procurement and its effectiveness in the near future”.

It will be of fundamental importance at this stage to correctly spell out and reflect the requirements of the different NRENs, and understand the needs of our community. “As we prepare the procurement of the next framework, we are now entering into a critical phase.

Monique Pellinkhof ( GÉANT), leading the task in charge of Infrastructure Cloud procurement (T3) addressed the participants:

Task 2 vendor-facing delivery chain, presented at the all-hands meeting by Garvan McFeeley ( HEAnet), will have a key role in that, by taking care of vendor engagement and contract management, operating the service desk, collecting data and producing reports on the framework usage and consumption.Ī central topic of discussion in Berlin was the re-procurement of the flagship IaaS+ Framework, one of the main high-level objectives of WP4 over the course of GN5-1. Commercial cloud procurement: unlocking the potential of clouds for European R&Eĭelivered in 2020 by the OCRE (Open Clouds for Research Environments) project, the 2020 IaaS+ Framework is the flagship initiative of the GÉANT Cloud team, enabling more than 10,000 Research & Education institutions across Europe to easily access a broad and varied catalogue of cloud services, at reduced costs.įollowing the successful completion of OCRE in December 2022, the support to the current framework is now continuing via the GN5-1 project. Organised by WP4 and hosted by the German NREN DFN, the meeting kicked off with an opening address by Work Package leaders Jakob Tendel ( DFN) and Maria Ristkok ( EENet), who presented the overall context of the GN5-1 project and its core action areas, together with the specific objectives and timeline of WP4.įollowing initial warm-up activities, different task leaders took turns to introduce their tasks, starting from the user-facing delivery chain task (T1) led by Eva Nestorovska ( MARnet), which provides horizontal support to the entire work package by taking care of communications, training and capacity building, and by organising the bi-weekly Cloud Forums with Cloud Service Delivery Managers (CSDMs) in the GÉANT community. Project participants, representing NRENs from all across Europe, came together to introduce their activities, discuss their plans, and identify synergies across the different tasks.

On 9 and, the first All-Hands meeting of the GÉANT GN5-1 Work Package (WP4) focusing on Above-the-Net services took place in the charming neighbourhood of Charlottenburg, in Berlin.

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