About

TERENA Trusted Cloud Drive is a pilot data storage service that uses the flexible cloud broker platform. The unique selling points of the platform are:

• Federated access
• Metadata and storage data is kept separate
• Storage data is encrypted
• Various cloud storage back-ends can be brokered
• Flexible front-end supporting different platfiorms (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android)
• Fully open-source code and documentation

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.

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