R&D for Building the Next-Generation Cloud

Cloud service providers, Telecom/5G operators, and technology companies from 12 EU member states, including OpenNebula Systems, are joining forces around a highly strategic open source project aimed at creating Europe’s future multi-provider cloud-edge continuum.

Role: Direct Participant & Chairing Company of the Industry Facilitation Group

Program: NextGenerationEU / UNICO IPCEI (Spanish Government)

Budget: 1.2 billion EUR

A unique Coordination & Support Action (CSA) providing dedicated  services to the Exploitation Office of the new €3B IPCEI-CIS and promoting widespread use of advanced cloud and edge technologies. OpenNebula Systems, as chairing company of the IPCEI-CIS Industry Facilitation Group, will play a key role as the main link with the EU cloud & tech ecosystem.

Role: Participant

Program: Digital Europe

Budget: 2,992,215 EUR

Building up on the successful organisation of the first NexusForum Summit (Brussels, 5 & 6 October 2023), OpenNebula Systems plays a key role in this Coordination & Support Action (CSA) as leaders of the Work Package on Stakeholders’ Engagement and Community Building and acting as the main connection between the project consortium and the EU industry ecosystem involved in the IPCEI-CIS and in the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud.

Role: Participant

Program: Horizon Europe

Budget: 1,999,500 EUR

OpenNebula will be the key open source technology in this unique project whose aim is to conduct research on Artificial Intelligence techniques and Zero-Touch resource management methods for the efficient deployment and operation of distributed 5G/6G edge environments.

Role: Single Beneficiary

Program: NextGenerationEU / UNICO I+D 6G (Spanish Government)

Budget: 1,840,000 EUR

OpenNebula will be used to facilitate the process of assessing the overall security of cloud services both on-premise and also across the cloud-edge continuum, providing an integrated way to manage cybersecurity and compliance requirements in highly-regulated sectors such as Banking & Finance.

Program: Horizon Europe

Budget: 5,498,900 EUR

Led by OpenNebula Systems, the COGNIT project will provide a new AI-powered Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm for edge application management and smart orchestration, changing how applications and services are deployed and executed along the cloud-edge continuum.

Role: Project Coordinator

Program: Horizon Europe

Budget: 5,962,092 EUR

OpenNebula is being used in this project as a core open source technology to build a complete and modular facility for the European experimentation ecosystem, supporting the next generation technology and research validation processes needed in the pathway towards 6G.

Role: Participant

Program: SNS Joint Undertaking

Budget: 8,546,551 EUR

This project has helped to turn OpenNebula into a powerful edge computing platform that provides companies with a unique open source solution for building their own Edge-as-a-Service environments by aggregating private and public cloud/edge infrastructure resources.

Role: Single Beneficiary

Program: EIC Accelerator

Budget: 2,143,735 EUR

This project, coordinated by CERN, brought together commercial cloud service providers, publicly funded e-Infrastructures and the buyers’ in-house resources to build a hybrid cloud platform on top of which a competitive marketplace of European cloud players could develop their own services for a wider range of users.

Role: Technology Provider

Program: Horizon 2020

Budget: 6,770.127 EUR

This project used OpenNebula in the process of researching and developing innovative techniques for federating cloud network resources, and for defining the integrated management cloud layer needed to deploy federated cloud applications in a efficient and secure manner.

Role: Participant

Program: Horizon 2020

Budget: 3,570,250 EUR