Urgent need for IT resources in
research and education?
Are you lacking the necessary software tools, IT experts and infrastructure to accelerate your ideas and projects? The European Open Cloud for Research Environments (OCRE) program can meet your needs within a few days. Developed by experts, scientists in research and education can purchase seamlessly integrable, innovative services via OCRE on a pay-per-use basis and with attractive discounts of up to 30%. With its Open Telekom Cloud, T-Systems is one of the service providers qualified for the OCRE program. Our experts advise, support implementation, monitor compliance with data protection and project budgets to ensure you achieve your results on schedule.

The Open Telekom Cloud: European cloud with a comprehensive portfolio
The Open Telekom Cloud is based on OpenStack, the most widely deployed open-source cloud software in the world. Our mission is to provide the best-in-class open-source solutions for all required functions, avoiding vendor lock-ins and enabling users to take back control of programs and data at any point in time. To manage gigabytes and petabytes of science data from various storage, distributed data management and data preservation services are made available.
Since 2016, the Open Telekom Cloud has been connected to the GÉANT e-Infrastructure. Scientists connected to the National Research Network can establish cloud services with sustainable 10G speeds and very low latencies of less than 25ms across Europe. Users can access the Open Telekom Cloud through their eduGAIN and Elixir home identity providers. Metadata attributes can be mapped to e.g. support existing user group configurations.
Open Telekom Cloud is certified for data privacy, security and reliability of the highest standards.


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More about cloud applications in research

How to apply
In order to enter a call-off contract under the framework contracts signed between GÉANT and T-Systems, organisations must be a member of a national research network in the 29 European countries where T-Systems is qualified as a cloud provider (see below). Call-off contracts can include cloud services, consulting, training and professional services. The call-off terms are flexible, can include a predefined budget and/or be based on times and material, and have a duration of up to 4 years.
Interested parties are welcome to get further information from the respective national research network or by contacting us.

Countries
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
Do you have any questions?
OCRE provides every researcher and student in Europe an immediate, compliant and trusted access to state-of-the-art cloud services and will accelerate science.
Programme Manager OCRE
Jurry de la Mar
