Building an Academic Cloud for 500,000 Users

Authors

  • Raimund Vogl Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, ZIV
  • Holger Angenent Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, ZIV
  • Dominik Rudolph Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, ZIV
  • Anne Thoring Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, ZIV
  • Christian Schild Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, ZIV
  • Stefan Stieglitz University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science
  • Christian Meske University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science

Keywords:

IT infrastructure, Project Report, cloud Services, cloud storage, collaboration, cooperative project, information infrastructure, university IT

Abstract

Under the brand name “sciebo – the Campuscloud” (derived from “science box”) a consortium of more than 20 research and applied science universities started a large scale cloud service for about 500,000 students and researchers in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state. Starting with the much anticipated data privacy compliant sync & share functionality, sciebo offers the potential to become a more general cloud platform for collaboration and research data management which will be actively pursued in upcoming scientific and infrastructural projects. This project report describes the formation of the venture, its targets and the technical and the legal solution as well as the current status and the next steps.

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Published

2015-11-03

Issue

11. Issue November 2015

Section

Project reports

URN

https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-5-42798

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Raimund Vogl, Holger Angenent, Dominik Rudolph, Anne Thoring, Christian Schild, Stefan Stieglitz, Christian Meske