At the CS3 conference in 2018, a panel of very wise people gravely informed us that sync and share is dead.
Moving beyond simple sync and share, over this past year the focus of AARNet’s CloudStor team has been towards building a platform that further enables our users to do more with their data without leaving the system. From collaborative document editing to data analytics with Jupyter...
A well-known but underrated fact is the growth-rate of research data. Any enterprise can be caught off guard if they do not keep their finger on the pulse. But data on hard drives is useless, if it is not accessible. With global collaboration in research, a demand for anywhere-availability, security and legal compliance, many enterprises and academic institutions are left with a major headache...
SWITCH as the national research and educational network runs an ownCloud service called SWITCHdrive for all the institutions of higher education. In order to run our service in a structured and time efficient way we have adopted a DevOps approach to operations, based on tools such as ELK, Grafana, Docker, Ansible and Python.
DevOps pillars we use:
1) Accept failure as normal mode of...
In order to provide a secure personal storage space for IHEP users, IHEPBox is built with the open source ownCloud. The platform integrates an LDAP database (AD domain) ,and we use EOS to storage users data, deploy the onlyoffice to provide office online services , and setup jupyter services to provide users with data analysis based on WEB, which will meet the needs of interactive data...
SWITCHdrive is the sync & share service for universities and other institutions of higher education in Switzerland. We are using a branded version of ownCloud V10 which runs ontop of our IAAS offering (SWITCHengines) based on OpenStack/Ceph and are serving nearly 30’000 users at 43 institutions.
I will present how the service evolved since its start 5 years ago and point out, what have been ...
GARRbox is the synch and share storage service built and operated by Consortium GARR, the Italian National Research and Education Network. GARRbox, built on top of OwnCloud, has been designed in 2016 as the GARR response to a specific commitment from the Italian Ministry of Health for supporting the needs of the biomedical research community. The service main focus has been since the liaison...
The past
SWITCH as the national research and educational network runs an ownCloud service called SWITCHdrive for all the institutions of higher education. As we have all user on the same instance we needed an administrator role on tenant level. As we already have an external website where all the users need to register for the service, we could build on top of that an administrator...
INFN Corporate Cloud (INFN-CC) is a geographically distributed private cloud infrastructure, based on OpenStack, that has recently been deployed in three of the major INFN data centres in Italy. INFN-CC has a twofold purpose: on one hand, its fully redundant architecture and resiliency make it the perfect environment for providing critical network services for the INFN community; on the other...
