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Description
In the scientific community, we have - at the same time - a strong need to seamlessly store and share files with colleagues all around the world, and a major constraint of data sovereignty.
As many publicly-funded institutions are not allowed to use commercial cloud storage products - as they are run and hosted by foreign companies obeying their own local laws - a common solution is to host a private cloud infrastructure within their own premises.
However, not every institution can afford the heavy hardware and connectivity infrastructure, along with the required IT workforce for maintenance, that is needed to run efficiently a private cloud solution.
In this talk, we present Cubbit Hive: an innovative approach that decouples the storage service from the need for dedicated infrastructure, virtualizing a private cloud on a pre-existing network of connected devices.
Cubbit Hive intelligently collects spare storage and computing resources within the premises of the institution (workstations, small servers, etc.) to enable a distributed storage service that is encrypted, fast, and compliant-by-design with the strongest needs of security and sovereignty.
