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Helix Nebula and the future of Europe’s cloud

Summary:

The Helix Nebula project combines the computing needs of large European research institutions such as CERN and the European Space Agency with the technical capabilities of companies like CloudSigma, Logica, and SAP. Working together, these two groups are addressing the technical, legal, and procedural issues that today make it difficult to seamlessly move jobs from one cloud to another at scale. Lessons learned from the project will be of wider relevance as Europe’s cloud activities gather momentum and create a projected 3.8 million jobs by 2020. This report examines Helix Nebula and how it could serve as a prototype for Europe’s future cloud.

  1. Executive summary
  2. Introduction
  3. Understanding the requirement for a science cloud
  4. Demand side
  5. Supply side
  6. From concept to reality
    1. Technical underpinnings
    2. Next steps
  7. A prototype for Europe?
  8. About Paul Miller
  9. About GigaOM Pro

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