Cloud Computing

Fulcrum Project

The Universal Cloud Federation
Period: 2024 - Ongoing
Categories: Cloud Computing Network infrastructure Ongoing Projects
The Fulcrum project was launched with the goal of creating a Federated Cloud model that emphasizes complementarity and collaboration rather than competition among providers of different sizes. The project is built on two main pillars: the InterCloud Exchange Foundation (ICX) and the Computing Exchange Market (CEM). The ICX serves as a consensus forum for defining and agreeing upon open-source frameworks for infrastructure federation. These frameworks are then supported and implemented within the Computing Exchange Market, a platform designed to enable the exchange and visibility of resources and services, adopting the solutions agreed and defined within the ICX.

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TOP-IX è founding member of the project

DOME

Distributed Open Marketplace for Europe Cloud and Edge Services
Period: January 2023 - December 2026
Categories: Cloud Computing Funded Projects Ongoing Projects
SM4RTENANCE aims to connects key ecosystems, standards, experimentation facilities and data space development building blocks with the aim to secure growth and economies of scale for future multi-stakeholder predictive maintenance and supply chain data spaces across their full lifecycle, adopting common European data space principle, technical infrastructures, vocabularies, data models and business agreements.

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TOP-IX is partner of the EU Consortium

DECICE

Device Edge Cloud Intelligent Collaboration framEwork
Period: January 2023 - December 2026
Categories: Cloud Computing Funded Projects
DECICE aims to develop an AI-based, open and portable cloud management framework for automatic and adaptive optimization and deployment of applications in a federated infrastructure, including computing from the very large (e.g., HPC systems) to the very small (e.g., IoT sensors connected on the edge).
The DECICE project was completed in November 2025.

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TOP-IX is partner of the EU Consortium

FLUIDOS

Flexible, scaLable and secUre decentralIzeD Operation
Period: September 2022 - September 2025 (Project completed)
FLUIDOS wants to create a distributed ecosystem from the cloud to the edge, based on Kubernetes, with the aim of leveraging the unused computational capacity by enabling resource and service sharing.

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TOP-IX is partner of the EU Consortium

AWS re/Start

Period: 2021 - 2022 (Project completed)

A 12-week, free professional training program aimed at nurturing local talents by providing skill development opportunities in AWS Cloud and job placements for students, unemployed, underemployed individuals, or specific minority groups.
The AWS re/Start program is already present in 14 countries across all continents, and since 2021, it's also available in Italy.

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