Welcome to the Cloud section of our Knowledge Base! This collection provides important information, tools, and tips about cloud technology. Whether you’re new to cloud computing or have experience and want to learn more advanced strategies, you’ll find useful information here. Use these resources to help you make the most of your cloud journey.
The Forum Standaardisatie has conducted research into the use of standards for cloud services. This research highlights the need for government intervention to establish open standards for cloud services, focusing on interoperability and data portability to reduce dependence on major supplies and ensure digital autonomy. The study found a lack of such standards an recommends promoting open standards at the European level, investing in training within government organisations, and mandating standards to improve interoperability and reduce supplier dependence.
The CoE-DSC contributed to this research by participating in the interviews.
Presentatie tijdens het ECP jaarfestival over de staat van digitale infrastructuur, hoe digitale infrastructuur in elkaar zit, en hoe we in Nederland werken aan de ontwikkeling van digitale infrastructuur.
Deze memo bevat een samenvatting van de Gaia-X Digital Clearing House (GXDCH) testomgeving.
A presentation outlining the lessons learned with the Structura-X Proof of Concept from the perspectives of multiple involved parties.
This presentation details how a consortium of service providers conducts tests on cloud federation and portability within a national test environment. It addresses customer demand for flexible and sovereign cloud services while discussing challenges related to scaling up.
This paper addresses the challenges of orchestrating workload deployment in the edge-cloud continuum and provides a taxonomy to understand different aspects of this process.
To contribute to the Structura-X project of Gaia-X, the Dutch Gaia-X hub, TNO, BIT, Intermax, Info Support, SURF and AMS-IX are conducting tests around cloud federation and portability in a national Gaia-X test environment. During one of our most recent Community Meetings, Erik Langius, Senior Integrator & Project Manager at TNO, elaborated on the need for a European federated cloud infrastructure that enables organisations to freely shift their data across several cloud providers.
The article discusses a collaboration between Dutch knowledge institutes, internet providers, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK) to establish a national Gaia-X test environment in the Netherlands. This initiative enables Dutch cloud service providers to test their solutions against European Gaia-X standards and regulations using Kubernetes technology initially, with plans to integrate other cloud federation technologies later. The goal is to promote data sovereignty in Europe by fostering a network of certified independent cloud providers and offering better data control to users.
We demonstrate the ability to expand cloud compute resources by using third-party resources in a trusted and transparent way by applying the Gaia-X Framework. This targets to eliminate mitigates vendor lock-ins for businesses acquiring cloud services and infrastructure resources.
