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CERNBox is a leading participant in the emerging European sync-and-share federation effort, promoting interoperable, standards-based collaboration across scientific communities. As an active contributor to European E-Infrastructures, it plays a key role in shaping open, federated data services. This contribution will present recent work on integrating CERNBox into the current sync-and-share ecosystem and review upcoming changes to the service.
Over the past year, CERNBox has improved interoperability through enhanced support for the Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) standard, strengthening collaboration within the EOSC Federation and opening new opportunities across the HEP community and beyond.
In parallel, significant technical advancements include improved performance and reliability of the EOS interface and the commissioning of a new hybrid CephFS driver that leverages kernel-mount performance, simplifying deployments across diverse storage backends.
Looking ahead, CERNBox is evolving toward the new Spaces model, introducing heterogeneous Spaces designed to support different privacy and collaboration requirements.
Together, these developments reinforce CERNBox’s role as an open, interoperable, and scalable collaboration hub for (large-scale) scientific communities.