Building an Academic Cloud for 500,000 UsersOpen Access

Vogl, R., Angenent, H., Rudolph, D., Thoring, A., Schild, C., Stieglitz, S. & Meske, C.

Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed

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.

Details about the publication

Volume11
StatusPublished
Release year2015
Language in which the publication is writtenEnglish
KeywordsIT infrastructure; Project Report; cloud Services; cloud storage; collaboration; cooperative project; information infrastructure; university IT

Authors from the University of Münster

Angenent, Holger
Meske, Christian
Rudolph, Dominik
Schild, Christian
Stieglitz, Stefan
Thoring, Anne
Vogl, Raimund

Projects the publication originates from

Duration: 01/10/2014 - 31/10/2019
Funded by: Wirtschaft, Federal Ministry of Culture and Science of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 28/05/2014 - 31/12/2016
Funded by: ownCloud GmbH
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/04/2013 - 28/02/2014
Type of project: Own resources project