On February 14, 2018 the first meeting of the Inter-University Cloud Forum was held at IUCC. Fifteen IT staff from Israel’s universities gathered for a working meeting to discuss cloud computing. The meeting was led by Eyal Estrin, IUCC’s Cloud Architect.
The discussions covered an introduction to IUCC’s cloud offering, implementation of the GÉANT Framework in Israel, tips for managing AWS environments and Microsoft Azure costs. The discussions focused on the unique challenges of using cloud services by researchers, with an emphasis on budgets, allocation and information security.
IUCC expressed its plans and intentions to support and work alongside institutions to assist in exploiting the advantages of cloud services and the added value the GÉANT framework single market will hopefully bring to the table.
The highlight of the forum was a presentation on a proof of concept process successfully used to create an HPC environment based on Microsoft Azure by Ido Yamin from the Weizmann Institute.
The Inter-university Cloud Forum is already syncing diaries to accommodate regular meetings to be held once every two months, as well as inviting other colleagues to join. Please contact IUCC if you are interested in joining the Forum.