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Vijheid.net | Maarten Koopmans | 26 March 2013 | - TCD should remain light-weight and mobile (i.e. to be moved anywhere in the cloud stack). It might be rough around the edges but serves its functions.
- TCD-based Storage Middleware is able to maintain the necessary trust and privacy (by federated access management, strong data encryption, and local metadata store) for the interim period while commercial/community cloud storage stacks do not support these features by default. In other words, TCD paves the way towards a cloud environment where users feel comfortable to be in the future.
- TCD can be used as a trusted portal (or common interface) for NREN cloud storage offerings going beyond the national jurisdictions. It facilitates community (NREN) provided storage to be shared across TERENA members.
- With TCD (i.e. by aggregating user demands and brokering down public cloud storage offerings) TERENA can apply pressure on the market. More and more communities should sign up for using TCD as a de facto cloud storage interface. Very first lessons and market reactions can be studied/learned from a public procurement for framework agreement with commercial cloud storage providers run by TERENA.
- In memoriam RECIPE project proposal.
- ACTIONS:
- TEREAN prepares for a "public tender for framework agreement(s)" with one or more public back-end storage provider(s). The storage offering(s) are planned to be available on the TCD platform for NRENs and academia.
- The technical annex of the tender can also be marketed as a template (best practice document) for national storage procurements complying with the TCD service platform as a de facto trusted cloud storage middleware/interface.
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PowerFolder | Christian Sprajc | 28 March 2013 | - PowerFolder (Germany based) offers private sync and share solutions for Businesses, Educational/Research organizations and Partner. Find the presentation at TF-Storage here.
Sync core and client are open source (that is a plus), while there are closed source solutions for web, mobile and additional security (that will be inside the private user domain, anyway). PowerFolder is implementing storage layer abstraction based on Java7 file system abstractions (supporting Apache Hadoop, etc.) as we speak. It is a good moment to take into account the integration with TCD.
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Box.net | Valerie Focke | 7 February 201132013 | - Box focuses on value-added services, simple data storage is less than 10% of the entire picture.
- Box provides the entire cloud stack as an integrated service platform.
- It is a platform for online collaboration, document sharing, group management, virtual teams, collaborative work, etc.
- There is a slight risk of vendor lock-in but the REST API is still there and open.
- Direct integration with TCD might not be implemented in a sensible way. The Box cloud stack is pretty much closed, from front-end application up to back-end storage.
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