The OCRE Project The Open Clouds for Research Environments project (OCRE) aims to accelerate cloud adoption in the European research community. It does so by bringing together cloud providers, Earth Observation (EO) organizations, and the research and education community. Cloud-based services can offer the European research community a wealth of powerful tools. Unfortunately, for many researchers, these are currently out …
What a research project needs from a cloud provider is scalability and excellent technical support
The OCRE Project The Open Clouds for Research Environments project (OCRE) aims to accelerate cloud adoption in the European research community. It does so by bringing together cloud providers, Earth Observation (EO) organizations, and the research and education community. Cloud-based services can offer the European research community a wealth of powerful tools. Unfortunately, for many researchers, these are currently out …
CloudSigma Joins the Network of Resources (NoR) Initiative Sponsored by the European Space Agency
Munich, Germany, September 2020 –CloudSigma is excited to announce that we have joined the Network of Resources (NoR) initiative. The NoR initiative is a venture sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA). It aims to establish a common framework for the growing amount of Earth Observation (EO) data, software applications, and IT services that have become available from an increasing …
Open Call Announcement for the CloudiFacturing Project Wave 2 Experiments
The CloudiFacturing project is a European Innovation Action (IA) under the Horizon 2020 Factories of the Future (FoF). To begin with, the main objective of the CloudiFacturing project is to boost competitiveness of European manufacturers by optimizing production processes using Cloud/HPC-based modelling and simulation. Specifically, the project brings together the results of two previously completed projects, CloudFlow and CloudSME. Currently, …
Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing
The Cloudifacturing project is an Innovation Action funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon2020 Programme. The project started in October 2017 and will conclude in March 2021. The consortium includes 33 partners from industry and academia. The coordinator of the Cloudifacturing project is André Stork, from the Fraunhofer Institute (Germany). The main objective of cloudification of production …
Improving Data-intensive Applications by Moving Data and Computation into Mixed Cloud/Fog Environments
The DITAS project is a Research and Innovation Action funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon2020 Programme. The project started in January 2017 and will conclude in December 2019. The consortium includes 5 industry partners (including CloudSigma) and 3 research organisations from 6 European countries. The coordinator of the DITAS project is Dr. David García Pérez, from …
Cloud Orchestration at the Level of Application
The COLA project is an Innovation Action funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon2020 Programme. The project started in January 2017 and will conclude in June 2019. The consortium includes 10 industry partners (including CloudSigma) and 4 research organisations from 6 European countries. The coordinator of the COLA project is Dr. Tamas Kiss, from the University of …