OCRE & Proact
Open Clouds for Research Environments
OCRE Cloud Framework and Proact, the right combination for your hybrid cloud solution!
Thanks to the OCRE Cloud Framework, facilitated by GÉANT, Research and Education (R&E) institutions in Europe will have quick access to Proact’s cloud services delivered out of Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
Discover more about what this framework agreement means and how our offering is uniquely positioned to help you accelerate your cloud adoption, as you select the right services to help you drive innovation through IT.
What is OCRE?
OCRE is the Open Clouds for Research Environments project and aims to accelerate cloud adoption in the European Research and Education community. Conditions of increased acceleration are facilitated by a following intensive phase of evaluation of tender responses resulting in a number of qualified cloud providers, ready-to-use service agreements, agreed commercial terms and compliance.
What Proact can offer NREN members
As part of the OCRE Cloud Framework Proact is qualified to provide Cloud services to all NREN (National Research and Education Network) members. With this you can procure Proact Cloud and associated professional Services in a compliant, easy and cost-effective way.
NREN members can procure the following Proact services using the Framework:
Proact Hybrid Cloud
Secure IaaS platform which provides you with your own virtual, hybrid cloud-ready data centre.
Proact Managed Container Platform
A fully managed container platform to allow you the flexibility to utilize microservices and container-based application creation.
Backup as a Service
Secure, efficient and reliable backup and recovery for a wide range of technologies.
Storage as a Service
Resilient file-, object- and block storage with data-Tiering
Professional Services
Benefit from Proact’s extensive expertise and experience in cloud design, implementation and optimization