Presentation at the Eurocloud Congress on 2010/06/21 in Luxemburg.

1. EuroCloud Congress Luxembourg, 21 June 2010 Cloud Computing in the Digital Agenda for Europe Dr. Carl-Christian Buhr Member of Cabinet of Ms Neelie Kroes European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda

4. Cloud Computing in the Digital Agenda Page 24: "Europe should also build its innovative advantage in key areas through reinforced eInfrastructures and […] should develop an EU-wide strategy on 'cloud computing' notably for government and science . […] The strategy should consider economic, legal and institutional aspects." Page 25: Action: "[…] develop further eInfrastructures and establish an EU strategy for cloud computing notably for government and science ". http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/

5. Current Commission Cloud Research EGI-InSPIRE: Create persistent eInfrastructure with clouds for science (EUR 25m) RESERVOIR: Develop technology for IaaS clouds (EUR 10m) VENUS-C: Develop and deploy a cloud service for research and industry with a platform based on virtualisation technologies. (EUR 4.5m) Eurocloud: Develop "servers on a chip" based on ARM processors (EUR 3.3m) StratusLab: Develop an open source cloud distribution (EUR 2.3m) EDGI: European Desktop Grid Initiative (EUR 2.15m) SIENA: Co-ordinate adoption and evolution of interoperable distributed computing infrastructures with open standards for clouds and grids (EUR 0.41m) etc.

9. Future Cloud Computing Pilot Projects Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) Early orientations for Work programme 2011 Theme 4: ICT for improved public services (EUR 22m) Support the development of a Government Clouds initiative in Europe , assessing the added value of Clouds in the public sector and the barriers for their deployment. Objective 4.1: 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.

11. Dr. Carl-Christian Buhr Member of Cabinet of Ms Neelie KROES European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda EuroCloud Congress Luxembourg, 21 June 2010 Thank you very much for your attention!