CS3 2026 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing

Survey

Site Reports

Personal details

We would like to know a little about you and your organization. It is important for us to understand what our community looks like and who is part of it.

Your name*

Institution/Company*

Email address*

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)

CS3 Community Map*

Add or update my site's basic data.

Add only my site's name.

Do not add or update any information about my site

After submitting this form, basic summary data about your site will be extracted and made available in this CS3 Community Map: https://cs3map.ethz.ch

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

Having some statistics on your site will help us provide a more interesting map to the community.

Are you running more than one EFSS instance? Could you explain the use cases?

Technologies used

e.g. ownCloud/Kiteworks, Nextcloud, OpenCloud, Seafile, etc...

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

Typical user quota (GB)

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

Use Cases

We would like to understand how you are using your EFSS systems

Could you please describe some important workflows that have been enabled by EFSS services in your organisation?

e.g. education purposes, scientific data exchange, general collaboration

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?

Yes

No

Migration

I you are planning to migrate to a different platform, we would like to understand how we can help you.

Are you planning to migrate to another solution in 2026?

Yes

No

To which solution do you plan to migrate?

Could you share with us why you are planning to migrate?

Would you like us to put you in contact with other community members with relevant know-how?

Yes

No

This would allow you to exchange experiences among the community.

Federation

Federation allows instances to cross-communicate and users to exchange data across institutional borders.

Is federated sharing enabled/supported in your system?

Yes

No

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

Yes

No

Would you be interested in collaborating with other organisation regarding service developments?

Yes

No

Comments

Storage Backend

What does it look like behind the scenes? How is your user data actually being stored?

Used storage (TB)

Number of stored objects

Implemented file storage

e.g. EOS, GPFS, Ceph, simple JBOD ...

Comments

Integration with applications and other software

We would like to understand whether your system is integrating with other services/platforms.

Integrated software

Collabora Online

OnlyOffice

SWAN Jupyter Notebooks

Other Jupyter Notebooks

Kopano (email)

Microsoft Office Online / Sharepoint

other (please specify in comment area)

Comments

Future Developments

We would like to have an open discussion on future developments within the CS3 community, and we would like to know your plans in order to identify possible collaborations.

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

Would you like to present them at the conference?

Yes

No

Short talk, 5 min

What do you think is the value of our community compared to simply using “hyper scaler” offerings?

What are your expectations regarding the CS3 Community?

How do you expect us to help you in advancing your applications?

Data Privacy

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