Speaker
Description
Following up on 20 years of successful development and operation of the largest Italian research e-infrastructure through the Grid, the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) has been running for the past three years INFN Cloud, a production-level, integrated and comprehensive cloud-based set of solutions, delivered through distributed and federated infrastructures.
INFN Cloud provides a large and customizable set of services, ranging from simple IaaS to specialized SaaS solutions, centered through a PaaS layer built upon flexible authentication and authorization services offered via INDIGO-IAM, and optimized resources and services orchestration.
Sync & Share instances based on ownCloud or NextCloud are among the several applications and services that users can self-deploy via the INFN Cloud dashboard.
Besides giving a general overview of INFN Cloud and its federated model, this talk will describe how the deployment of Sync & Share services for small to medium sized communities is fully automated. We will show how added-value features are integrated: a geographically distributed S3 storage backend, automated database and configuration backup, dedicated resource monitoring, secure connections and centralized authentication/authorization. We will also describe how INFN Cloud may provide a dedicated solution for supporting sensitive data privacy that exploits end-user level encryption of the storage block devices, used by ownCloud or NextCloud to store user data.
