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TCD Pilot Final Consultation - Unleashing the NREN clouds
The final consultation phase aims at collecting the experiences and recommendations of the Trusted Cloud Drive (TCD) pilot. The consultation phase is open to everyone, if you want to participate, please contact Peter Szegedi <szegedi@terena.org>
The bottom line of the consultation process is the preliminary TCD service architecture depicted below. You might also want to read the paper submitted to the SUCRE CloudSource Magazine for more background information.
Consultation participants
TCD pilot core team:
Demands
Current services
Use case for TCD
Role of NREN
Role of TERENA
| Organisation | Contact person | Date and time | Notes |
|---|
| GRNET | | | |
| PSNC | | | |
| CESNET | | | |
| NIIF | | | |
| BELNET | | | |
| FCCN | | | |
| | | | |
Other TERENA NRENs interested:
Demands
Current services
Use case for TCD
Role of NREN
Role of TERENA
| Organisation | Contact person | Date and time | Notes |
|---|
| SURFnet | Andres Steijaert (GN3+ SA7 leader) | | |
| SWITCH | | | |
| RENATER | | | |
| DFN | | | |
| | | | |
Non-TERENA organisations:
Demands
Current services
Use case for TCD
- Role of Organisation
Role of NREN
Role of TERENA
| Organisation | Contact person | Date and time | Notes |
|---|
| Srce | | | |
| CESCA | | | |
| CERN | | | |
| RNP | | | |
| AARnet | | | |
University of Porto | | | |
| Università Roma TRE | | | |
| | | | |
Community and commercials:
Current services
Integration with TCD
Role of NREN
Role of TERENA
| Organisation | Contact person | Date | Notes |
|---|
| 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.
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| PowerFolder | | | |
| OwnCloud | | | |
| Box.net | Valerie Focke | 7 February 20113 | - 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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| Amazon | | | |
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