CS3 2025 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing

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Site Reports

Personal details

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Active since (year)

Role of this service in your organization

Administration workflows and processes (document handling, process support,...)

General project collaboration (sharing of project data and documents in technical and engineering context)

Data workflows (collection, access and sharing of datasets or files considered as "data" independently of their type)

Research collaboration (sharing code, data and other files; integrated access to software, computing, analytics and similar resources)

Education and outreach use-cases

Sharing and collaborating outside of organization and across other organizations

other (please specify below)

Additional usage of public cloud services

Yes

No

Is your organization also using a public cloud service in a similar context to your on premise service (e.g. Google Docs, Gmail, Dropbox, S3 AWS to store data,...)

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Additional comments on this service

Comments on public cloud usage

Size and shape of the EFSS (Enterprise File Sync&Share) services delivered

How many instances (e.g. multi installations for other purposes, special use cases, mixed vendor)

Do they serve different user communities or are they dedicated for different purposes?

If you have more than one instance, could you explain why?

Technologies used (Owncloud/Nextcloud/Seafile/…..)?

Number of users? (in total and/or per instance?)

Typical user quota (GB)

Amount of data? (in total and/or per instance?)

Amount of shares? (in total and/or per instance?)

Amount of federated shares? (in total and/or per instance?)

Use Cases

Describe some important workflows that have been enabled by EFSS services by your organisation? (only a few words)

What kind of work are your users involved in? (only a few words)

Have you made any special modifications to your EFSS in order to enable certain use cases? Please explain?

Must your use cases be hosted on premise?

Past and Future Developments

Describe the developments of your service over, say the past 5 years? (Only a few words)

Are you planning on future developments and if so, what are they and why do you need them?

What is your vision on the future of EFSS services - where do you see these kind of services going to coming 5 years or so?

What do you think what the the added value is compared to “hyper scaler” offerings?

Migration

Are you planning to migrate to another solution in 2025?

Yes

No

To which solution do you plan to migrate?

Do you expect to change the service definition after migration (e.g. use-cases covered)?

Yes

No

What is the expected change in the service defintion?

Reason for migration

Federation

Would your organisation in principle be interested in joining a federative infrastructure of EFSS services to enable easy sharing across instances?

Is federated sharing enabled/supported?

Yes

No

Would you be interested in joinly collaborating with othe rorganisation wrt service developments?

Yes

No

Comments

Usage Information

Used storage (TB)

Number of stored objects

Number of shares

Number of *public* shares (anonymous links)

Additional comments

Web layer

Software and version

Number of servers

Number of max concurrent web sessions

Service Backend

Software and version of the Database

Number of max concurrent queries

Number and type of database servers

Service Backend

Implemented file storage

Backup of file storage

Integration with applications and other software

Integrated software

Collabora Online

OnlyOffice

SWAN Jupyter Notebooks

Other Jupyter Notebooks

Kopano (email)

Microsoft Office Online / Sharepoint

other (please specify in comment area)

Comments

Federated Shares

Sharing with users in other organizations and cross-institutional.

Comments

Additional information for Site Reports session at the CS3 conference

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