WP2 – Engagement and Dissemination

1. WP2 – Engagement and Dissemination HN Annual Review

2. WP Objectives • The purpose of WP2 is to communicate that HELIX NEBULA – the Science Cloud - is the beginning of a new infrastructure being built in Europe through Public/Private Partnership and the benefits that will bring. Specific goals • Present policy-makers, funding agencies and infrastructure operators with an effective alternative to capital-intensive investment in e-infrastructures • Encourage scientists to see this "Science Cloud" as their first choice of working environment by demonstrating that concerns about putting research data and software ‘on the cloud’ are being addressed sensibly • Mobilise the supplier community (especially telecoms providers, the IT industry and innovative SMEs) to participate and benefit from the public/private partnership • Ensure that publicity about HELIX NEBULA is positive and focuses on the efficiencies it brings to the research communities and the societal benefits that can result.

3. Effort Contribution • Lead Beneficiary: CSA EMEA WP2

4. WP2 Deliverables and Milestones – Period 1

5. Web site • Flagship use cases; • How to become a member of the HN community; • Events • Highlights updated with related articles, announcements and news. • Registration to Newsletter • Direct link to the HN accounts in the social networks • HN material online: HN video and interviews, as well as the HN flyer.

6. Branding materials • Helix Nebula website graphic design templates (M1) • Helix Nebula PowerPoint Presentation Template (M1) • Helix Nebula deliverable templates (M1) • Helix Nebula flyer (M5) • Helix Nebula newsletter template (M4)

7. Overall modifications, corrective actions, re-tuning of objectives • D2.1 Communication Plan updated with feedback from T-Systems • Furthercollection of stakeholders compared to communication plan published in M3

8. Scientific/technical achievements and their impact • Helix Nebula Architecture: 544 downloads • Strategic Plan for a Scientific Cloud Computing infrastructure for Europe: 282 downloads • Communication Plan: 137 downloads • Requirements Template: 115 downloads

9. Contribution to the disseminationof project results • Significant communication results: 14 new partners including 3 new candidates demand-side stakeholders+ additional interest in membership. • Helix Nebula presented at 44 events to target audiences as set out in the Communication Plan, e.g: • Policy makers, eScience end users, industry (4 events, e.g. RSA Conference, San Francisco, USA, 25 January-01 March 2013) • Industry, government and research communities (5 events, e.g. EC Workshop on Towards an EU strategy of Cloud computing for government and science, Brussels, 26 November 2012) • Industry and Service Providers (3 events: ISACA INSIGHTS, Berlin, 11 June 2013) • European eResearch (4 events, e.g. 10th e-Infrastructure Concentration Meeting, Brussels, 06-07 March 2013) • Academia & industry, Science and research (3 events, e.g. ISC Cloud’12, Mannheim,Germany, 24 September 2012) etc.

10. Helix Nebula initiative members Helix Nebula Suppliers AWST - Applied Science, Software and Technology • Helix Nebula UsersHelix Nebula Adopters European Organisation for Nuclear Research Atos Capgemini CloudSigma European Molecular Biology Laboratory Cloud Security Alliance Orange European Space Agency Dante - Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe Telefonica Centre National d'Études Spatiales Thales German Aerospace Center European Grid Infrastructure Trust-IT Services Interoute Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment at the National Research Council Logica Switch SAP ECMWF SixSq OpenNebula T-Systems Ifremer Terradue CNRS The Server Labs Trinity College Dublin Visio Terra – Science Consulting for Earth Observation

11. Communication Activities • Helix Nebula website complete • 3 Helix Nebula articles published by the HN consortium • 3 newsletters • 24 articles written by outside organizations mention HN (HPC, ISGTW, CORDIS news etc) - GigaOM network broadcasted video on HN.

12. Online Presence • 31 videos (including ESRIN HN Public event ‘Results and Engagement’) • 30 interviews/articles (including at GigaOM Structure Data in October 2012)

13. Social Media Metrics • Facebook: - 284 total likes - 91.980 friends of fans - 178 Weekly Total Reach • Twitter: - 50 re-tweeted posts from January-June 2013 - 53 other accounts’ tweets mention Helix Nebula - 46 new followers from January-June 2013 • LinkedIn: - From 122 to 137 members (31% senior, 20% managers, 11% Entry, 8% CXO, 8% Director, 7% owner) - 15 on-going discussions

14. Website Analytics Total page views across all pages on the site from June 2012-June 2013: 28.578

15. Dissemination Activities • Events Participation- Visibility- New partner members- Commercial, social project impact • Number of participated events: - 44 past events published on website At least 11 more upcoming events.

16. Exploitation and use of foreground • Publication of the results of the security assessment as a STAR registry entry • Use CSA Cloud Control Matrix and Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) to conduct security challenge in HN   • Presentation of results at CSA’s EMEA Congress in Edinburgh, September 2013

17. Collaboration with other beneficiaries • Advisory on the project on Virtual Machine image validation. • Contribution to security requirements through WP3 and WP5. • STAR (Cloud Security Alliance Security, Trust and Assurance Registry) entry for the Helix Nebula Blue box.

18. Interaction with other FP7 projectsand stakeholders outside the consortium • HN Presented to: • A4Cloud • CUMULUS • CIRRUS • 44 events • CSA membership – e.g. at CSA events. • Potential new supply and demand-side members • Supplier co-operation – e.g. with Enstratius