The aim of the pilot

The aim of this pilot is to explore possible deployment scenarios for a trusted storage service for NRENs. The pilot will be built upon a federated software platform (“the cloud broker facility”) that offers the ability to easily connect different storage back-end (both private and public cloud storage back-end are supported) and store users data in a secure and privacy preserving way (thanks to the separation of storage data and metadata as well as the built-in encryption functionality) in the cloud.

The following aspects will also be addressed as part of the pilot:

(i)         Longer term sustainability for a potential service;

(ii)        Legal aspects and perceived trust issues related to the storage and management of the encryption keys and metadata;

(iii)       Software scalability and performance;

Although the software already offers capabilities to test different front-end applications too, this aspect will not be fully explored during the pilot. However, requirements will be collected during the pilot lifetime and recommendations on how to further improve the front-end (end-users) functionalities will be provided.