What’s Fulcrum
Fulcrum is the first universal federation of cloud infrastructures and services.
It is composed of:
The InterCloud Exchange Foundation, acting as a consensus room to define and agree upon open source frameworks for infrastructure federation.
The Computing Exchange Market that allows cloud and application service providers to exchange resources distributed and aligned with the European Trust Framework.
Fulcrum seeks to distribute and interconnect knowledge, achieving local impact and global sustainability through interoperability, promoting a new model of Digital “Glocalization”.
Sustainability
The respect of Code of conducts for fair software licensing, data center infrastructures, access networks is crucial for a sustainable digital market.
A federated solution can foster a modular approach to sustainable infrastructure, enabling tuning and mitigation of risks and the progressive introduction of innovative and environmentally-conscious operational principles.
Social impact
Ecosystems are by definition open and collaborative environments, constantly evolving and developing thanks to the freedom and multiplicity of interactions.
Therefore, a healthy and sustainable infrastructural ecosystem must be designed minimizing static concentrations, single points-of-failure and potential lock-ins but rather maximizing openness,robustness and dynamic interactions.
Fulcrum is developed in line with the Declaration on European Digital Rights and Principles with the belief that there can be no freedom of choices without interoperable infrastructures and services.
Market Objectives
Create a market-viable, inclusive, secure, trusted, and high-performing infrastructure ecosystem (Guaranteed fundamental attributes).
Enable seamless interoperability across networking, infrastructure, and application levels among Internet Exchanges, Telecom Providers, Cloud Service Providers, and Application providers. (Unified resource expansion).
Provide ISPs, CSPs, or CAPs, regardless of size, access to a universal federated single market, enabling them to meet the needs of both small and large customers and tap into new core and edge markets,(Unprecedented New Market Opportunities Worldwide).de).
Glocalization
The definition and adoption of different common trust and federation frameworks will allow a globally open, dynamic and interoperable infrastructure, ranging from the center to all the edges of the world.
Tunable in regards to compliance requirements, adaptable to varying performance needs and inclusive with respect to different sizes of service providers.
A single marketplace for new and unprecedented
business opportunities for everyone
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