A Brief Introduction to Cloud Catalyst

Carlos Martín

The Project

• An EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7) project

• Started in September 2013

www.cloudcatalyst.eu

@CloudCatalystEU

Goals

• Contribute to reinforce the innovation and differentiation level of the European cloud ecosystem

• Foster the emergence of a strong and enthusiastic community of Cloud adopters and supporters in Europe

• Support entrepreneurs, researchers and software developers to create value-added cloud solutions

Main Outputs I

The Cloud Accelerator Toolbox

Set of guidelines and best practices for the creation of new Cloud based-projects

For developers’ community, entrepreneurs, technical transfer units, start-up incubators and other cloud stakeholders

Main Outputs II

Cloud Catalyst Survey

Trends, Motivators, Barriers => Innovation opportunities

BY YEARS ON THE MARKET

APPRECIATION OF OPEN SOURCE

First Annual Event in September 2014. Bled, Slovenia

Main Outputs III