Cloud/structural funds workshop

on 6 February 2014, DG Connect

Anna Katarzyna Nietyksza

President of EuroCloud Polska

President of EFICOM S.A.

Member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC),

Digital Agenda Group

Educational Platform in Lodz

Educational Platform in Lodz

Beneficient: City of Lodz

An excellent example of the use of cloud solutions in education is the

Educational Platform of Lodz, which has more than 150,000 users. By

leveraging cloud technologies on municipal servers, the city of Lodz has

deployed this broad-scale educational platform, on which users dynamically

manage their educational content, without the need to buy expensive software

or costly hardware.

Users: Teachers and pupils

Total Value of the Project: 40 mln PLN

Platform: 1 170 000 PLN

Co-financing from the regional programme of the Lodzkie region (EU cohesion

fund)

Educational Platform in Lodz

Low-cost, tailored e-learning

Give schools and universities the chance to create their own low-cost e-

learning systems.

Dynamic lessons

Such solutions allow teachers and lecturers to make lessons more

attractive, using the huge repositories of multimedia resources available in the

cloud

Personalised approach

Pupils can access educational resources – including lessons, courses,

revision aids, and so on – without the pressures of time or barriers of

geography

Flexibility

Foremost of the advantages for schools or universities are the much lower

costs of infrastructure maintenance when using cloud resources. Costs can

thus be significantly reduced during holidays as compared to during the school

year or end-of-term examinations

Broker Internet platform for cloud

services providers

The project is currently starting. A platform that will serve

as an intermediary between service providers in the cloud

(SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) and their customers.

Main targets of the project:

Small and Medium Enterprises

providing IaaS, SaaS and PaaS solutions.

But also local government structures (gminy, powiaty),

schools, colleges etc.

Total value of the project: 700 000 PLN

Platform: 250 000 PLN

Co-financing from the operational programme “Innovative

economy”, through a dedicated fund “MicroBioLab” that

invest in start-ups, monitored by the PARP agency

Broker Internet platform for cloud

services providers

Configurator:

The main functionality will be a configurator, which - depending on the profile of

the company / industry – is to present a list of SaaS solutions tailored to its needs

(grouped by function - storage, finance, office applications, graphics applications,

etc., as well as by price, user ratings, certification of EuroCloud, etc.).

The configurator will also suggest IaaS platforms with the appropriate resources

necessary to provide the selected applications in the cloud.

Consequently, SaaS providers must first complete an extensive questionnaire on

their needs.

Planned is also a list of the best specific solutions according to different business

branches.

In the end of the selection process, the SaaS customer receives the valuation of

monthly fees.

SINERSIO Virtual Data Center (based on SINERSIO Data Center)

SINERSIO Virtual Data Center is a pool of cloud infrastructure resources

designed specifically for enterprise business needs. Those resources include

computer, memory, storage and bandwidth.

SINERSIO Virtual Data Center A platform designed for the highest level of performance, service and security.

The main features of SVDC are:

Redundant and flexible architecture

Guaranteed reserved capacity for immediate use

Different storage options – Productive, Test, Archive

Advanced high availability networking, load balancing and firewalls

Resource model variations - whether requirements are growing, bursting, stable or

declining

Purchasing flexibility with varying commitment levels

Managed Backups,

Uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99%

Enterprise support level – 24/7/365

SVDC Services to SMEs:

SVDC e-commerce, SVDC ERP, SVDC Disaster Recovery, SVDC

Archiving/Backup, SVDC Hosting, SVDC Advertisement, SVDC Communication

SINERSIO Virtual Data Center SVDC project was fully financed by EU funds:

Data Center - hard infrastructure

Lubelskie Regional Operational Programme – new investments of high

innovation potential SME – 2 M EUR

Virtual Data Center - software solution

Wielkopolska Poland Regional Operational Programme – new

investments of high innovation potential SME – 0,5 M EUR

Lubelskie Regional Operational Programme – new investments of high

innovation potential SME – 0,5 M EUR

Innovative Economy Operational Programme – e-business - 0,3 M

EUR

Export Activities

Innovative Economy Operational Programme – 0,2 M EUR

Allocation of EU funds in Poland

2014-2020

Thematic objective 2007-2013 2014-2020

„Increasing the availability, use and quality of ICT” 5,30%

Approx. 3,1 mld

5,31%

Approx. 4,3 mld

Data Center in Radom for the

Ministry of finance

More than 2600m2! The construction costs of the Data Center amounted to

47.52 million PLN.

Preparation and implementation of the construction of the Infrastructure were

financed under the project ˝consolidation and centralization of customs and tax

systems ˝ co-financed from EU funds. The value of EU funding was 85%

(POIG) and 15% from national sources. The total project’s value is 167 million

PLN.

Are such IT infrastructure investments affordable for

other institutions /Public administration/ Health services/ etc. ? Should

the public administration trust and buy cloud services instead?

Cloud on the move in Poland

Cooperative banks, a very specific sector in Poland, is starting to migrate to

the cloud. For example, Bank Spółdzielczy w Tczewie is one of the first pioneers. „This

model is financially the most attractive for us "- declares Eugenia Pokorska-Sawczuk,

CEO of Bank Spółdzielczy w Tczewie.

Polish Cloud virtualization providers for SMEs in Poland and in Central Europe

are rapidly growing

Currently, EU funds finance IT infrastructure in Poland – CAPEX instead

of OPEX.

European Common rules or at least Guidelines for Cloud adoption?

Common EU procurement procedures when using Cloud solutions?

Strong need of awareness/education campaign/ trainings /competence

center for SME to adopt Cloud solutions

Solid EU legislative framework on data protection/ IT security to convince

the administration and economic actors that the cloud is safe and secure;

Cloud on the move in Poland

EuroCloud Polska

A growing Cloud Community in Poland!

And more…