The Greater Paris Region regional council’s permanent commission adopted July 8, 2010 a project on Cloud Computing for university and high-school students, apprentices, and researchers in the Ile-de-France region. This project, which should start September 2010 for the system to be in place by the first semester 2012, is based on a 1.56 million Euro budget, 675,000 Euros of which are funded by the region, the rest by the partners. Baptized Marguerite, this project is carried by l’Eisti (École internationale des sciences du traitement de l’information), in partnership with l’Essec, TelecomSudParis, l’Institut Telecom, l’École polytechnique and Saphir, the broadband network of the Saclay plateau.

“Cloud computing is a mode of consuming information resources in form of use on demand of hosted services from online data banks. Instead of being stored in one place, the digital content is dispersed on multiple servers,” explains the regional council. This computer science approach offers to put at the disposition of users massive stocking capacity, powerful computation and of the software,” and also a way to “limit the files stocked on each computer, tablet, and smartphone.”

The Marguerite project will provide access to stocked resources spread out over the three sites of the partner establishments (Cergy, Evry, and Saclay) and to « powerful computational resources » by the mutualization of computational resources.  Users will have software resources, consumable on demand, either a “platform of access to software usable on demand », as a « platform to access resources like academic or cultural videos for all support of communication, smartphones, tablets” or a digitalization of artwork from the National Heritage Conservation Center in Cergy. Users can also benefit from private collaborative work platforms.

Contact:

The Regional Council of Ile-de-France, Emmanuel Georges-Picot

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