From cloud computing to data and e-infrastructure: Trust-IT Services expertise at ICT2015

As coordinators of CloudWATCH (www.cloudwatchhub.eu), on Tuesday 20 October we are hosting a session on Dependable Cloud as part of the European drive towards services that are trusted, transparent, secure and reliable. The session will offer a deep dive into cloud service level agreements (Cloud SLAs), with SLA-Ready (www.sla-ready.eu) building tools and services to help small firms make informed decisions on which services to use, what to expect and what to trust. The session also looks at how CLARUS (www.clarussecure.eu) is addressing data privacy, aso explaining the role of certification schemes, which CloudWATCH has identified and analysed with the Cloud Security Alliance. 

On Wednesday 21 October, CloudWATCH is co-hosting a session with CloudCatalyst and CloudSocket on: A trusted cloud ecosystem - How to help SMEs innovate in the cloud. The session brings European research and innovation initiatives face-to-face with the very stakeholders they are serving in order to ensure that they are thinking strategically and that their solutions really meet the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

On Thursday 22 October, Silvana Muscella, Trust-IT CEO, is chairing a session on cyber security: Key challenges in end-to-end privacy/security in untrusted environments. This session features a lightning talk on WISER (www.cyberwiser.eu), which is rolling out a set of tools for cyber risk management, benefitting multiple sectors, ICT-intensive SMEs and owners of critical and complex infrastructures. 

 

 

The acquisition of IT services is a key function in any organisation, public or private. While Cloud services are bringing benefits to the public sector, it is also changing the procurement process especially for public sector organisations. On 21 October Trust-IT is part of the  PICSE (www.picse.eu) networking session "Fast forward to the digital single market: procurement of cloud services", which offers practical insights to help overcome the complexities of the procurement process.

 

From 20-22 October, Trust-IT is co-ordinating a stand on "EU-Brazil together in ICT" in the International Village at ICT2015. The stand collects EU-BR co-operation success stories to date with examples of new tools and services that could not have been possible without combined efforts. It also spotlights new initiatives on cloud, high performance computing, security and the future internet, which are starting in early 2016. The team at the stand will be on hand with practical information on co-operation opportunities and impact.

Relevant initiatives: EUbrazilCloudConnect, EUbrasilCloudFORUM, EU-BRA BigSea 

 

Open science makes scientific processes more efficient, transparent and effective by bringing new tools for scientific collaboration, experiments and analysis and by making scientific knowledge more easily accessible. Open science also enables the emergence of new scientific practices, disciplines and paradigms to respond to the new challenges facing society, where citizens also play a part in global distributed collaborations while benefitting from new or better scientific knowledge.

RDA (https://rd-alliance.org/node) and EUDAT (http://eudat.eu/) will showcase how they are supporting open science at the e-Infrastructures Stand in the European Village.