EGI - Advanced Computing Services for Research
⭐ Good Practice Description:
EGI is a federation of computing and storage resource providers united by a mission to support research and development. The federation is governed by the participants represented in the EGI Council and coordinated by the EGI Foundation.
Success Factors:
| Business Success | The adoption of EGI cloud services has been ramping up over the last 3 years with a number of users currently over 72,000 researchers globally. EGI increased by 100% the capacity made available and actively used by scientific collaborations. Success has been driven by European open science cloud initiative by promoting cross-disciplinary access to data. |
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| Governance and Organizational Structure | The key element of success for EGI is to provide added value services on top of cloud infrastructure like IaaS; the SaaS layer is familiar for researchers freeing them of worrying about the infrastructure. Moreover, EGI shows that federating infrastructures helps organizations without a sufficient budget for their own technical needs. |
Stakeholders
Strategic Goals
The EGI Federated Cloud is a IaaS-type cloud, made of academic private clouds and virtualised resources and built around open standards. Its development is driven by requirements of the scientific community.
Description
Keywords
- Federation
Cloud Delivery Model
- IaaS
Cloud Deployment Model
- Hosted Private
Project Life-Cycle Stage
- Operational Deployment
Industry
- Education and Skills
- Information and Communication
Industry
- Science and Research