Conveners
Services & Site Reports
- Dr. Tilo Steiger (ETH Zuerich)
In this presentation we will discuss the developments of the past year related to sync-and-share services and other SURFsara data services. We will also discuss the issues we have encountered and our successes.
Working in a University, in a diverse and dynamic community, makes it possible to observe the emergence of new digital uses. Dropbox and similar applications were the pioneers of file synchronization and sharing softwares, which use was largely utilized for research teams and teaching.
Indeed, the cloud storage is a very powerful system to develop collaborative work and increase autonomy....
In this report we will discuss the current setup of cloud storage infrastructure at DESY. We will look at the experiences of the last two years, user expectations and service development.
Lastly we will present our thoughts on future development of DESYcloud(TM) storage.
http://it.desy.de/services/storage_services/desycloud/index_eng.html
Users have grown accustomed to easy-to-use sync-and-share applications like Dropbox, Google Drive and many more, which tightly integrate into their operating systems and platforms.
Naturally, an obvious need arises to use these tools at the workplace, as well. However, there are strong arguments against embracing such public cloud services, especially in the context of scientific and...
The Max Planck Digital Library started a project at the end of 2015 to build up a service for all Max Planck Researchers to archive their data long term compliant and according to the rules for good scientific practice (https://www.mpg.de/232144/rulesScientificPract.pdf) of the Max Planck Society (MPS).
The technical aspects of this service were clearly specified but, as we experienced in...
The HU Box (https://box.hu-berlin.de), based on the software Seafile (http://www.seafile.com), offers a data storage solution for university use cases at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), operated by the Computer and Media Service (CMS).
The CMS at HU currently provides the HU-Cloud which incorporates the open source software OpenStack as an Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) environment...
B2DROP is a service offering from the EUDAT (EUropean DATa Infrastructure, eudat.eu) project. EUDAT is a collaborative pan-European infrastructure providing research data services, training, and consultancy for researchers, research communities, (national) research infrastructures, and data centres. It currently provides these services:
- B2DROP - Sync and Exchange Research Data,
-...
We will deliver the abstract within the next days ;-)
Owncloud is quite popular among sync & share service providers. As the name implies, Owncloud was build with home users in mind. It can run on devices as small as a raspberry pi. At the same time this product is also sold to service providers who support with one single Owncloud instance more then 20k users. This already being an astounding achievement, it is not yet good enough. Service...
