The ongoing shift of services and applications toward Cloud platforms brings users to entrust their whole service stack, from data storage to company workflows, to external providers. Besides the development of new Cloud platforms and standards, key research challenges are federating services and resources from different public/private Clouds, providing scalable interoperability, wisely matching services and needs, protecting the privacy and security of users' data.
Contact: Raffaele Perego
Projects:
- BASMATI - Cloud Brokerage Across Borders for Mobile Users and Applications
- EGI-Engage - Engaging the EGI Community towards an Open Science Commons
- ElasTest - ElasTest: an elastic platform for testing complex distributed large software systems
- EOSCpilot - The European Open Science Cloud for Research Pilot Project.
- OpenAIRE2020 - Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe 2020