1. RDA knowledge sharing meeting Paris, 10 September 2015 Carlos Morais Pires European Commission e-Infrastructures, DG CNECT.C1 Author’s views do not commit the European Commission

2. RDA?... at least 2 3 !

3. Responding to the Digital Single Market Strategy Maximising the growth potential of our European Digital Economy Requires investment in ICT infrastructures and technologies such as Cloud computing and Big Data, and research and innovation to boost industrial competitiveness as well as better public services, inclusiveness and skills Cloud Initiative/Research Open Science Cloud

4. The Data Harvest, December 2014 © RDA Europe The Data Harvest Report How sharing research data can yield knowledge, jobs and grow A RDA Europe Report

5. Why are e-Infrastructures essential to DSM strategic vision? Fragmentation (geographic, user-community) Investment (lack and/or inefficient investment) Digitization of industry (adoption of innovative solutions) Data economy (data exploitation) Service orientation federation, virtualisation Multiple funding sources flexible, agile business models Innovation User and technology-driven Interoperability of data and computing Issuese-Infrastructure approach

6. network infrastructure, GÉANT HPC/distributed computing/software infrastructure scientific data infrastructure Cloud… virtualisationopaque service interfaces

7. network infrastructure, GÉANT HPC/distributed computing/software infrastructure scientific data infrastructure cloud and e-infrastructure transparent catalogue of services dynamic, adaptive service interfaces

8. 1.European Research Open Science Cloud as part of the DSM Cloud Initiative 2.Change the game through infrastructure investment "European high- performance data networks" Opportunities

9. Standards & best practices Global Collaborations Users: big industry and SMEs Users: big science & long tail Catalogue of Services European Collaborations At least 2 3 User Driven Service Orientation Interoperation IaaS PaaS SaaS DataaaS AppaaS ScienceaaS

10. Carlos Morais Pires carlos.morais-pires(at) ec.europa.eu Thank You!