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The European Cloud Computing Strategy

Francisco García MoránDG for Informatics, European Commission

Cloud: an elastic execution

environment of resources involving multiple stakeholders

and providing a metered service

at multiple granularities for a specified level of quality (of service).

Source: Expert group on Cloud Computing, 2009http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/docs/cloud-report-final.pdf

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Definition

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient,

on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources

(e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider

interaction

NIST definition of Cloud Computing http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/cloud-def-v15.doc

“The Cloud” for the uninitiated …

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Cloud Computing - EU27

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Sources: AMR, Gartner, IDC, William Blair & Co., Merrill Lynch, PAC

Europe […] should develop an EU-wide strategy on 'cloud computing' notably for government and science.”

Digital Agenda for Europe

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Challenges

Privacy & Legal

Governance, control

Security,

dependabilityInteroperability

Interoperability

Essential for the cloud to be fair, open and competitive

Open specifications are key

Data portability

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Cloud standardisation: the issues

standardisation is highly complexthe supply side is not interested

too early: players prefer to gain market sharethe demand side is hesitant

current solutions could result in lock in situationslarge number of involved parties

technology providers, solution integrators, governments, user groups, etc.regulatory requirements to comply withseveral standardisation bodies and fora with heavy non-European participation

there is a real need to develop

Data protection

Key issue for Europe

Data may be hosted anywhere

Data is subject to location specific legislative issues

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Legal framework

Cloud providers should protect European cloud customer’s data: portability, transparency, EU data protection standards

European governments must have legal frameworks

Some Reports on Cloud Computing

Benefits, risks and

recommendations for

Information SecuritySecurity & Resilience

in Government Clouds

Information Assurance

Framework

An SME perspective

on Cloud Computing

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UE CIOs

21% of countries have national strategies

50% use it for public services

43% have plans for cloud use in public services

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57%

43%

36%

Security, data protection & privacy

Public cloud vendors issues

Change management

Political and legal issues

Challenges

92,86%

50%

35,71%

Efficiency

Agility

Focus shift

Benefits

European Cloud Strategy

Legal

framework

Technical &

commercialMarket

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Ongoing activities

Policy initiatives

The Digital Agenda for Europe forsees:

� review of data protection framework;

� reform of EU standardisation system;

� better use of standards in public procurement;

� network security;

� etc.

Research Projects

� EGI-InSPIRE: Create persistent eInfrastructure with clouds for science (EUR 25m)

� Eurocloud: Develop "servers on a chip" based on ARM processors (EUR 3.3m)

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

� SIENA: Co-ordinate adoption and evolution of interoperable distributed computing infrastructures with open standards for clouds and grids (EUR 0.41m)

� etc.

Future Research and Pilots in Cloud Computing

FP7 ICT Work programme 2011-12

For example, on:

� Intelligent, automatic management of cloud resources to ensure scalability

� Interoperability among different clouds, portability, protection of data in cloud environments, control of data distribution and

latency.

Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP)(Orientations for Work programme 2011 under discussion)

“Support several pilots to prepare move towards clouds of/for public services. Pilots to demonstrate potential benefits of adopting new service delivery architectures to reduce cost and enable private actors to build new services.”

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Support actions

Addressing future challengesObj. 1.2, ICT WP 2011-2012

Cloud computing

Management of cloud resources

CloudInteroperability

Support of mobile, context-awareapplications

Integration of computing and networking environments

Internet of services

Service engineering

Services enabled by integration of real and virtual worlds

Scalability, self-management, fault localisation, …

Life cycle management tools and methods

Advanced software engineering

Advanced engineeringfor software

Quality measure and assurance techniques

Management of non-functional requirements

Tools and methods for community-based software development

Standardization and collaboration

Open source development model

Cooperation with Japan on cloud computing

Total Funding

Projects listed

88.48 M€

Existing Projects

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Existing Projects

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Projects Starting

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Research Projects

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Take aways

Cloud Computing is changing the ICT market

Europe needs to become "Cloud-Friendly" and "Cloud-Active”

International policies needed

European Commission is working on the regulatory framework to stimulate and support Cloud Computing