FOKUS, as leading partner in the FP7 project OCEAN alongside DMTF, ETSI, OASIS, OGF, OW2 und SNIA, organized a Cloud Interoperability Week in late September with various workshops in Madrid and Santa Clara (USA). The highly successful events in Madrid, which drew more than 50 participants and were held during the EGI Technical Forum, included a cloud workshop, cloud tutorials and plugtest/plugfest activities. The event brought together a variety of diverse cloud projects around the need to co-operate to utilize, standardize and enable the interworking of different cloud sytems.

The aim of the project OCEAN ist to enhcance the efficiency of collaborative research projects and to support the development of a sustainable open source cloud ecosystem in Europe.