With reference to the institutional operators of services, their involvement will be medium in terms of engagement activities as the project partners are already contributing to the Science Mesh and the system administrators and service managers are already engaged with the partner institutions. Their contribution to the project is expected to run in the medium term until the end of the project and hopefully they will keep using Science Mesh also after the end of the project.
System Administrators providing cloud services to researchers are also important components of the mesh.
In the current phase of the mesh, the following services are integrated:
SURFdrive , CERNBox , PSNCBox , CloudStor , Sciebo, CESNET , SWITCHdrive and ScienceData .
A study with this original cohort should be conducted to already anticipate the challenges when it comes to joining the mesh.
Beyond this original group, other cloud providers who would like to join should be able to easily be part of the mesh.
To make this possible, the CS3MESH4EOSC team is working to provide well-documented technical manuals and easily accessible governance agreements to make this process efficient.
To help with this onboarding, the mesh team should also provide workshops so that IT teams can be oriented on the various benefits and costs associated with the mesh.
SURFdrive , CERNBox , PSNCBox , CloudStor , Sciebo, CESNET , SWITCHdrive and ScienceData .
A study with this original cohort should be conducted to already anticipate the challenges when it comes to joining the mesh.
Vendor lock-in due to lack of interoperability across cloud vendors is the main challenge that system administrators are facing.
To help with this onboarding, the mesh team should also provide workshops so that IT teams can be oriented on the various benefits and costs associated with the mesh.
