Welcome to The 451 Group's European Union Research Opinions (EURO) service. EURO reports deliver insight into EU research and development activity related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and examine the impact on the marketplace and industrial adoption. The innovation agenda is the organizing principal of The 451 Group and a key focus for EURO is providing a bridge between EU research and industrial exploitation.
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EURO Reports
Young innovators are the target of new European Commission EYIF initiative
Europe is seeking ways to fast-track the technology-innovation agenda to improve competition with the US.
MIS / EURO Report, 9 Jul 2010
William Fellows OPTIMIS: cloud, but better
The research and development project kicked off in June 2010. It is an EU-funded cloud project that aims at optimizing cloud services.
MIS / EURO Report, 8 Jul 2010
Csilla Zsigri, William Fellows European HPC facilities enable big science
The European Commission is funding a number of initiatives that will help to keep European scientists at the cutting edge of research, by exploiting the most advanced computer-aided simulation and analysis techniques and technologies.
MIS / EURO Report, 17 May 2010
John Barr High-performance computing in the cloud – another perspective
A keynote presentation at the OGF28 grid conference looked inside cloud datacenters and supercomputer facilities to highlight the differences.
MIS / EURO Report, 18 Mar 2010
John Barr Evolution of emerging processors and HPC in the cloud: It will be called Fortran
We review a workshop at the Open Grid Forum's OGF28 meeting in Munich that explored the tools and middleware required to support next-generation distributed applications.
MIS / EURO Report, 17 Mar 2010
John Barr Future Internet public-private partnership: a venturesome initiative?
Europe aims at becoming a leader in Future Internet technologies. The European Commission's innovation strategy for the Future Internet is now taking shape.
MIS / EURO Report, 19 Feb 2010
Csilla Zsigri, John Barr Nontechnical issues must drive EC's role in the future of cloud computing
The European Commission's report from a 'group of experts in cloud computing' will shape cloud research definition, activity and funding programs, and will act as an advisory board.
MIS / EURO Report, 8 Feb 2010
William Fellows, John Barr Living with ambient intelligence
We are increasingly surrounded by ambient intelligence as computers move into the very fabric of society, and this will affect our daily lives.
MIS / EURO Report, 2 Dec 2009
John Barr GridEcon project fosters grid economics and business models
For grid or cloud computing to become pervasive, economics must back up the technology.
MIS / EURO Report, 4 Aug 2009
John Barr SmartLM's flexible licensing virtualization technology makes licenses mobile objects
The EU-funded project is developing platform-independent access, treating and implementing software licenses as services, and integrating new service-oriented business models.
MIS / EURO Report, 29 Jul 2009
Csilla Zsigri TravelCRM: CRM, BI and traveling served on a grid plate
The e-commerce travel service is an intelligent SaaS offering aimed at making small travel agencies more competitive.
MIS / EURO Report, 12 Jun 2009
Csilla Zsigri BEinGRID aims to help financial organizations combat money laundering
The EU-funded group's pilot project, Anti-Money Laundering in Grid, or AMONG, is intended to enable better collaboration among financial institutions to improve anti-money-laundering mechanisms.
MIS / EURO Report, 27 Apr 2009
Csilla Zsigri As a future Internet of cloudy things emerges, Reservoir focuses on federation
The FP7 research project, which emphasizes and fosters cooperating computing clouds, should be relevant to all cloud constituencies.
MIS / EURO Report, 18 Dec 2008
William Fellows A grid competition to save the planet
The UK's Grid Computing Now! is running a competition to find innovative grid computing solutions to environmental problems.
MIS / EURO Report, 17 Jul 2008
John Barr A catalyst for innovation: open source and the European Commission
The EC is officially neutral when it comes to software licensing, but it is increasingly leaning toward open source as a means of increasing the competitiveness of the European technology industry.
MIS / EURO Report, 19 Jun 2008
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