Description
Format: oral presentation, 10' minutes + panel
We are heading into a world were the files of most users are hosted by 4 big companies. This is the case for most home users, companies but also education and research institutions. If we want to keep our sovereignty over our data, protect our privacy and prevent vendor lock-in then we need open source self hosted and federated alternatives.
A new challenge is the increasing blending of...
“Sync and Share is Dead. Long Live Sync and Share." discusses the increasing disinterest users have in simple file storage, Simple storage is a commodity service, with Google, DropBox, and other big players who can legitimately resolve concerns about data centre security, legal control, administration and audit, and standards compliance. The competitive advantage for any given data storage...