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It covers the procurement of R&D services for the design, prototype development,
and pilot use of innovative hybrid cloud services.
The tender operates as a competitive development with contracts being awarded
to multiple contractors for each of the design, prototype development, and pilot
phases. RHEA Group and its subsidiary SixSq have been awarded one of the
four design phase contracts, together with its leading cloud provider partners,
T-Systems and Exoscale. The proposal has been selected from a total of 28
multinational companies, SMEs, and public research organizations from 12
countries. RHEA Group’s approach builds on the capabilities of SixSq’s Nuvla
HNSciCloud introduces
a hybrid model that
enables the science
community to process,
share, and manage big
data in a more effective
and productive way.
service to meet the challenging needs of the European science community in
both commercial and hybrid clouds.
The four selected consortia were officially announced on November 2, 2016, in
an award ceremony taking place in Lyon, France.
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