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The Helix Nebula Initiative is a partnership between industry, space and science to establish a dynamic ecosystem, benefiting from open cloud services for the seamless integration of science into a business environment. Today, the partnership counts over 40 public and private partners.
HNSciCloud at Cloud Procurement Session at Digital Infrastructures for Research 2016

Around 50 attendees participated in the session. It consisted of a productive discussion regarding how the research sector can procure cloud services. Existing approaches, such as those adopted by HNSciCloud through Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) and by GEANT with the establishment of their recently released catalogue, were analysed. The participants discussed how these different approaches can overcome the existing challenges that public research organisations are facing. The challenges were identified by the PICSE project and confirmed by the audience. Finally, the discussion moved to the topic of how and if commercial cloud providers can serve science.
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