Objective
Today the European Public Sector Players lack the necessary infrastructure and technology to allow them to integrate their computing clouds. Furthermore, legislative barriers often make it difficult to use available commercial technological solutions. The SUNFISH project aims to provide a specific and new solution to face these issues. SUNFISH will enable the secure federation of private clouds based on the Public Sector needs: federated private clouds belonging to different Public Sector Entities will be able to share data and services transparently, while maintaining required security levels.
The SUNFISH project will develop and integrate software enabling secure cloud federation as required by European Public Sector bodies. The project will achieve this by meeting firstly the specific challenges faced by the Maltese and Italian Ministries of Finance, as well as by the UK Regional Cyber Crime Units, the three SUNFISH selected use cases. Solutions will be developed to be usable by other European Public Organisations, and potentially also by private sector players.
SUNFISH will improve security in federated “cross-border” clouds, boosting the development of a cloud computing market in sectors where privacy and control of information propagation are essential (e.g. e-government, e-health etc.) while encouraging a better resource utilisation of Public Administration cloud infrastructure.
The secure system for federated private clouds developed through the project will guarantee a high level of safety, a continuous monitoring of inter-cloud communications, and the ability to roll out services cheaply, in a fast, flexible and secure way even between different private clouds.
The SUNFISH project aims to reduce the management cost of private clouds owned by Public Administrations, and - beyond pure costs savings – to accelerate the transition to 21st century interoperable and scalable public services, boosting enforcement of the European Digital Single Market.
Fields of science
- social sciencessociologygovernancepublic services
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracy
- social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemse-governance
- social sciencespolitical sciencespublic administration
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
00187 Roma
Italy
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Participants (12)
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00143 Roma
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HMR 9010 Blata L Bajda
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00185 Roma
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49527 Petach Tikva
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1030 Wien
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1030 Wien
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8010 Graz
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SO17 1BJ Southampton
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VLT2000 Valletta
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OX5 2NX Kidlington
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12618 Tallinn
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20149 Milano
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