A New Dawn for environmental data networks - Environment - "International Innovation is the leading global dissemination resource for the wider scientific, technology and research communities, dedicated to disseminating the latest science, research and technological innovations on a global level. More information and a complimentary subscription offer to the publication can be found at: www.researchmedia.eu."Wouter Los discusses the importance of biodiversity research in modern sciences and its need for dissemination and global interaction supported by cloud services. He also explains how cloud computing is playing a central role in modern biodiversity research infrastructures (Intelligence CREATIVE-B coordination of research e-infrastructures activities toward an international virtual environment for biodiversity)