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Speaking in Switzerland About File Sync and Share for Education and Research

On January 18-19, I will give a talk about ownCloud at the ETH University in Zürich, Switzerland. There, the Cloud Services for Synchronization and Sharing (CS3) takes place, with a focus this year on Cloud Storage Services for Novel Applications and Workflows. CS3 focuses on share experiences and progress in cloud storage services among universities and research […]

On January 18-19, I will give a talk about ownCloud at the ETH University in Zürich, Switzerland. There, the Cloud Services for Synchronization and Sharing (CS3) takes place, with a focus this year on Cloud Storage Services for Novel Applications and Workflows. CS3 focuses on share experiences and progress in cloud storage services among universities and research institutions.

According to the website:

“The usage of recently deployed services in the scientific community is rapidly expanding. Users are actively interested in new solutions for their growing data needs: new tools and enhanced data sharing capabilities enable new solutions. At the same time, the technology space is quickly evolving and many research institutes, service providers, software development teams and companies look into different approaches in the area of Cloud Services for Synchronization and Sharing.”

This is the second in this series of events of this name, the first having taken place at CERN, famous home to the world’s largest particle accelerator and inventors of the World Wide Web.

While I will speak about the future of Federated Sync and Share, there are many other sessions in the program, covering performance and scaling, global data distribution, data analysis and processing, scientific computing and more.

If you are interested in using cloud technologies in research or scaling to massive deployments, this is an event worth visiting. If you do come, be sure to come and say hi!

ownCloud will be presented in 8 different talks.

Talks about ownCloud on January 18:

12:10-12:30 The Next Step in federated File Sync and Share, F. Karlitschek (ownCloud)
13:30-13:50 Benchmarking and Testing ownCloud, Seafile, Dropbox and CERNBox Using Smashbox, P. Mrowczynski (Technical University of Denmark Copenhagen)
13:50-14:10 Scaling ownCloud: User Redirection and Proxying, F. Orellana (Technical University of Denmark Copenhagen)

Talks about ownCloud on January 19:

10:15-10:30 MyCoRe – ownCloud Service at CNRS, D. Rousse (CNRS France)
11:00-11:20 Open Cloud Mesh Initiative, C. Schmitz (ownCloud) – P. Szegedi (GEANT) – J. Moscicki (CERN)
13:45-14:00 Experience with Running ownCloud on Virtualized Infrastructure (Openstack/Ceph), C. Schnidrig (SWITCH Zürich)
14:00-14:15 UnipiBox: ownCloud@unipi , S. Spinelli (Università di Pisa)
14:45-15:00 DESY-Cloud: An ownCloud + dCache Update, P. Millar et al. (DESY Hamburg)
Visit the whole agenda here.

ownCloud GmbH

January 12, 2016

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