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D.2.1. Cloud Trends in Key EU Industries (Interim Version) D.2.1. Cloud trends in key EU industries (interim version) Grant Agreement nr. 612 053 Project acronym Cloud Catalyst Project title Cloud trends in key EU industries (interim version) Funding instrument Coordination and support actions (CSA) Due date 31/06/2014 Submission date 15 / 09 /2014 Main editor (s) EuroCloud Europe Contributor (s) Portugal Telecom, UCM, Si.mobil, Uptec Project Co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme DISSEMINATION LEVEL PU Public x PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission RE Services) C Confidential, only for members of the consortium and the Commission Services 1 D.2.1. Cloud trends in key EU industries (interim version) DOCUMENT CHANGE LOG Modified Version Date Editor Summary of modifications pages Melanie 0.1. 13.11.2013 Draft version Delannoy Melanie 0.2. 11.12.2013 All Rework structure Delannoy 0.3. 12.12.2013 Andreas Weiss Review EU related figures Rework content towards 0.4. 09.07.2014 Dalibor Baskovc All methodology 0.5 10.07.2014 Andreia Jesus All 1.st revision 0.6 28.07.2014 EuroCloud All Full rework and new structure 0.7 09.09.2014 EuroCloud All Overall enhancements Andreia Jesus, Enhancement per reviewer 0.8 13.08.2014 Various Dalibor Baskovc comments 0.9 13.08.2014 Andreas Weiss Section 6 Rework and scoping 1.0 28.08.2014 Paulo Calçada All Rework and scoping Paulo Calçada, 1.1 15.09.2014 Andreia Jesus, All Reworked and scoping Dalibor Baskovc Disclaimer This document contains materials which are copyrighted by the Cloud Catalyst consortium partners and may not be reproduced or copied without written permission. The commercial use of any information contained in this document may require a license from the owner of that information. Neither the Cloud Catalyst consortium as a whole nor any individual party of the Cloud Catalyst consortium, provide any guarantee that the information contained in this document is ready to be used as it is, or that use of such information is free from risk, and will accept no liability for any loss or damage experienced by any person and/or entity using this information. Statement of Originality This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both. 2 D.2.1. Cloud trends in key EU industries (interim version) Executive summary This report aims to provide useful information that can help entrepreneurs, researchers, and software developers to create value-added cloud products and services. This first version of the report focuses on technology analysis and benchmark, targeting cloud developers and entrepreneurs that are looking for opportunities to develop partnerships with key market players, to enter incubators or to access the funding programmes available. In addition, it can also be used by cloud computing users who are looking for more information about applications, services and infrastructure, with scalable and flexible attributes that can be deployed through self-service. The consortium has defined a framework around cloud technologies and support mechanisms or context enablers to foster cloud adoption in the EU market. The report covers benchmark activity done in the following areas: Technology: products and services within IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS segments focusing technology and business enablers such as marketing strategies; business models, etc. This report also studies reference European funded Cloud computing research in order to identify ready-to-market outcomes. Supporting instruments: policies - ICT & Cloud computing policies on local and EU level, accelerator and incubators. The present deliverable is part of WP 2 - Task 2.1 Analysis of major Cloud trends in key EU industries. The main objective is to gather key cloud computing trends throughout Europe within targeted countries Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Germany, Poland, France, UK and to identify enablers for Cloud innovation, by the analysis and compilation of major Cloud trends in European industries, with high potential to become heavy users of cloud services (ICT, education, banking, healthcare, media, and government). This is an intermediate version that will be complemented in the following months and finalized in D2.2 (M17). The final report will focus on identification of enablers for cloud innovation by analysing and compiling major cloud trends within European industries (ICT, education, banking, healthcare, media, and government). The result of this deliverable (final version) will be fundamental to development of the CloudCatalyst tools, provided within WP3- Cloud accelerator toolbox through task T3.3 Cloud accelerator toolbox, which will provide inputs for WP4 through task T4.2 Development of Go- to-the-Cloud service. 3 D.2.1. Cloud trends in key EU industries (interim version) Table of contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. 3 1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 6 1.1 OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE ........................................................................................................................... 8 2 TRENDS IN CLOUD SERVICES: SAAS, PAAS AND IAAS ......................................................... 10 2.1 INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS) ................................................................................................. 11 2.1.1 Benchmark Analysis ..................................................................................................................... 13 2.1.2 Key Findings .................................................................................................................................. 14 2.2 PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS) ............................................................................................................ 15 2.2.1 Benchmark analysis ...................................................................................................................... 16 2.2.2 Key Findings .................................................................................................................................. 18 2.3 SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS) ........................................................................................................... 19 2.3.1 Benchmark analysis ...................................................................................................................... 20 2.3.2 Key findings ................................................................................................................................... 22 2.4 EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT REFERENCE PROJECTS ............................................................ 23 2.5 REFERENCE STUDIES IN CLOUD ADOPTION ............................................................................................. 30 2.5.1 Further enhancement considerations ........................................................................................ 30 3 COUNTRY SPECIFIC BENCHMARK AND CONTEXT ENABLERS ............................................ 35 3.1 PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................................. 36 3.1.1 Technologies ................................................................................................................................. 36 3.1.2 Policies ........................................................................................................................................... 36 3.1.3 Incubators & Accelerators ........................................................................................................... 37 3.2 SPAIN ................................................................................................................................................... 39 3.2.1 Technologies ................................................................................................................................. 39 3.2.2 Policies ........................................................................................................................................... 39 3.2.3 Incubators & Accelerators ........................................................................................................... 42 3.3 UK........................................................................................................................................................ 43 3.3.1 Technologies ................................................................................................................................. 43 3.3.2 Policies ........................................................................................................................................... 44 3.3.3 Incubators & Accelerators ........................................................................................................... 48 3.4 FRANCE ................................................................................................................................................. 50 3.4.1 Technologies ................................................................................................................................. 50 3.4.2 Policies ..........................................................................................................................................
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