GÉANT’s Cloud Brokerage service takes the form of a cloud service catalogue which brings together eight suppliers and twelve cloud services and forms the framework for the next phase of clouds services for the R&E community.
All cloud providers are invited to include their cloud services in the catalogue, in order to present these to the research and education community. The basis for this online directory is a coordinated list of pan-European core requirements that cloud service providers are expected to meet.
The catalogue, with its structured listing of cloud providers’ answers to the cloud requirements, offers to the research and education community clarity about providers’ capabilities, which helps when procuring cloud services (subject always to their domestic procurement legislation and applicable EU threshold values).
This catalogue demonstrates how each of these suppliers ensures their services meet the needs of European research and education, including data security and privacy and integration with eduGAIN-enabled authentication and authorisation infrastructure (AAI) services, and rates them against 28 key criteria.
GÉANT offers a wide range of support for NRENs rolling out brokered cloud-based services and Infrastructure as a Framework (IaaS) Framework deployments. These include: