The Digital Agenda for Europe. What about the Cloud?

European Grid Initiative Technical Forum 21 September 2011, Lyon The Digital Agenda for Europe What about the Cloud? Carl-Christian Buhr European Commission (All expressed views are those of the speaker.) http://slidesha.re/eucloud2

The European Commission as...
...Policy Maker
Launches policy debates
Invites Member States to take action
Proposes EU legislation
...Funding Agency
Research & Innovation projects
...Infrastructure Builder
Funds infrastructures
Funds relevant research
Supports networking activities

Neelie Kroes Maroš Šefčovič Digital Agenda e-Commission , ISA Michel Barnier Procurement http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/ Máire Geoghegan-Quinn R&I , ERA Some propose, all 27 adopt Viviane Reding Data Protection

... and often these need to agree http://europarl.europa.eu/ http://consilium.europa.eu/ European Parliament Council of the European Union

http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU , @NeelieKroesEU http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda DAE 101 Actions

http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU , @NeelieKroesEU http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda 101 Actions Advising on... Research Policy ICT Standardisation e-Infrastructures Cloud Computing Strategy etc. http://bit.ly/cc_buhr , @ccbuhr

The Digital Agenda for Europe
“ Europe should also […] [reinforce] 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.”
A Digital Agenda for Europe (COM(2010)245, 19.05.2010), http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0245(01):EN:NOT

Why?
“ Now is the time to bring it all together. […] This goes beyond a policy framework. I want to make Europe not just ‘cloud-friendly’ but ‘cloud-active’.”
Neelie Kroes, 27 January 2011
Economic potential for supply & demand
Cloud computing happens: to or with us?
Many Commission actions have an impact

When?
“ [T]he deliverable is a document combining analysis and a plan of future actions. I want to have this in place no later than 2012 .”
Neelie Kroes, 27 January 2011

What?
“ First, the legal framework : users' rights, data protection and privacy - including the global aspects […].
Second, technical and commercial fundamentals : boosting research efforts, and focussing them on critical issues such as security and reliability.
Third, the market : we will support pilot projects for cloud deployment, and push public procurers into action.”
Neelie Kroes, 22 March 2011

Process so far
1. Expert Reports: Opportunities for European Cloud Computing Beyond 2010, Security and Resilience in Governmental Clouds (ENISA)
2. Public online consultation
(16 May-31 August, results will be online)
3. Consulations with industry
(23 May, report is being finalised)
4. Digital Agenda Assembly Cloud Workshop
(17 June, presentations online)

E.g. 2. Pillar: Research EGI-InSPIRE : Persistent eInfrastructure w/ clouds for science (€25m) RESERVOIR : Develop technology for IaaS clouds (€10m) VENUS-C : Develop and deploy cloud service for research and industry with virtualisation platform ( € 4.5m) Eurocloud : Develop "servers on a chip" based on ARM (€3.3m) StratusLab : Develop an open source cloud distribution ( € 2.3m) SIENA : Co-ordinate adoption and evolution of interoperable cloud and grid infrastructures with open standards ( € 0.41m) etc.

Scientific data http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave ” Our Vision is a scientific e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data. In a sense [...] the data themselves become the infrastructure – a valuable asset, on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance”.

E.g. 3. Pillar: Market CIP Work programme 2011 “ Objective 4.1: Towards a cloud of public services” (p.27) (Several pilos, funding up to € 10m) Cloud will also be covered in CIP Work programmes For 2012 and 2013.

Pooling procurement
“ ...push public procurers into action.”
“ Let me just dare to look a bit into the future. In the US there is a large framework contract for cloud computing that can be used on all levels of government. This pools a lot of procurement power. If anything, this can ‘move the market’ – and the public administrations. What would we need to do to pull off something like this in Europe? ”
Neelie Kroes, 23 May 2011

But how?
“ What would we need to do to pull off something like this in Europe? ”
One Example: European Cloud Computing Strategic Plan *
Valuable experience
Focus on effectiveness/cost
Similar requirements
Pooling of resources attractive
Public sector
Natural to align with EU targets
role-model for other organisations
etc.
*Inter-governmental research organisations (EIROforum) defining common requirements and procuring together, where possible. Aim: Prevent lock-in, prompt suitable supply in Europe.

Selected Pointers
Cloud Computing Homepage of the Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/cloudcomputing/index_en.htm
The Digital Agenda for Europe
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda
Neelie Kroes Speeches
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/686
Riding the wave – Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, October 2010
http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave
The Future of Cloud Computing: Opportunities for European Cloud Computing Beyond 2010, January 2010
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/docs/cloud-report-final.pdf
Contacts
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<twitter> @NeelieKroesEU , @ccbuhr </twitter>
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