OCRE Cloud for Albania

13 research and education institutions in Albania can procure sovereign European cloud services through the OCRE 2024 framework.

13Eligible institutions
RASHNational research network
SofiaDatacenter BG-SOF-1
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How institutions in Albania access OCRE cloud

Institutions in Albania access the OCRE 2024 framework through RASH, their National Research and Education Network (NREN). VSHN is the sole Exoscale reseller in the OCRE catalogue and ranked number one in all countries it serves. Institutions can use the cascade method (direct award) to place an order without a competition round.

Exoscale datacenter closest to Albania: Sofia (BG-SOF-1). Guaranteed data location, no US CLOUD Act exposure. All data egress to GÉANT and connected NRENs is waived.

Get started

Contact VSHN to request a trial voucher, get a cost estimate, or start a call-off agreement for Exoscale cloud and managed services in Albania. Your NREN cloud team at arjanxhelaj@rash.al can help with framework eligibility questions.

Eligible institutions (13)

Agricultural University of Tirana
Albanian University
Barleti University
College of Europe | Collège d’Europe (Tirana Branch)
European University of Tirana
Luarasi University
Medicine University of Tirana
Polis University
Polytechnic University of Tirana
University "Aleksander Moisiu” Durres
University "Aleksander Xhuvani” Elbasan
University of Tirana
University “ Ismail Qemali” Vlore

Managed services available through OCRE

Beyond Exoscale IaaS, VSHN provides fully managed open-source services with 24/7 operations, automated backups, and SLAs up to 99.99%.

Managed Keycloak Identity management with eduGAIN and OpenID Connect federation for single sign-on across NREN networks. Managed GitLab CLOUD Act-free source code hosting, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps platform on Swiss infrastructure. Managed OpenShift Enterprise Kubernetes platform for containerized research workloads and HPC environments. Managed PostgreSQL Research databases with PostGIS for geospatial data and pgvector for AI embeddings. Managed OpenBao Secrets management and encryption for compliance-sensitive research environments. Codey (Managed Forgejo) European code collaboration platform. Sovereign alternative to GitHub, starting at CHF 19/month.

Request a trial voucher

Interested in using Exoscale or VSHN-managed services in your research or education institution through OCRE 2024? Tell us about your workloads and we will follow up with more information and a trial voucher.

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