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Cloudscape Flagship Workshops
Cloudscape definitely features in my top 10 workshops out of the many events that take place each year. The Cloudscape workshop is a great place to promote standards among computing infrastructures, suppliers, funding agencies, end-users and IT analysts, exchanging ideas and spotlighting new advances. It is a premier event in Europe counting global participation.
Pasquale Pagano, Senior Researcher, Italian Research Centre (CNR)
The SIENA initiative is supported by the EC to drive forward the development and adoption of interoperability standards for European distributed computing infrastructures. SIENA is making major contributions to this rapidly evolving landscape through the highly successful Cloudscape series and the Roadmap on Distributed Computing Infrastructure for eScience & Beyond.
Cloudscape IV, 23-24 February 2012 hosted at the European Commission premises in Brussels, continued its hugely successful four-year run as over 120 stakeholders from the scientific community, industry, standards organisations and policy makers gathered to explore the most discussed topics around cloud computing. Many of these topics feature in our Position Paper Booklet with insights from 17 leading figures at the forefront of cloud computing and related standards.
The Cloudscape series began in 2009 with an early focus on top scientific community engagement. Cloudscape 2012 clearly demonstrates that it is now very much a premier event for a much broader group of stakeholders: 33% from research, 30% from industry & small and medium enterprises (SMEs), 17% from government and public administrations, 17% not-for-profit and 50 EC-funded initiatives alongside all major standards organisations, which have also been part of the SIENA Roadmap Editorial Board. Interestingly, over 60 of the participants are not involved in any funded initiative, which shows the value-add of Cloudscape in placing high on the agenda multiple, global perspectives and in helping to establish stronger relations between industry and the scientific community.
