For some time now, the French national research and education network (NREN) RENATER is testing Nextcloud. Together with our team they have deployed it in testing for over 40 organizations already. Those organizations who would like to provide this to their employees and students will be able to use the … Continued
How to back up Nextcloud with Bareos People make mistakes, and hardware breaks — even if your data is securely stored in a private cloud with Nextcloud, it’s a good idea to be prepared for the worst case. Regular backups, ideally on external storage, can save your data and even … Continued
Nextcloud was always designed as a software platform and not a monolithic application. This is why we have the apps concept, many of the APIs and why we push open standards. In the past, many developers and companies used these capabilities. Today, we are launching the new Nextcloud developer program … Continued
JSC System Capital Management Ltd or SCM (wikipedia) is a holding company that manages tens of billions in industrial holdings and production assets that are SCM Holdings’ investee companies. When looking for a simple, secure and well designed messenger platform that could be hosted on-premises, a decision was made for … Continued
As covered today in the German, French and international media, European Governments are starting to take digital sovereignty more and more serious, moving away from cloud solutions from large, centralized, foreign firms. Responding to escalating trade tensions including the recent dispute over a digital tax in France, the introduction of … Continued
Nextcloud is more than 3 years old. For the founding team, including myself, it was very important to create a company and open source project that has some principles, some moral standard and goals. This should not be just another company which only exists to generate money. We want to … Continued
The data protection officer of the German federal state of Hessen has warned that the cloud-based Office 365 solution is not a compliant solution for use in schools when student information is being stored on it. This fits with earlier, similar conclusions by the Swedish and Dutch governments – US … Continued
Can your company afford to pay $600.000 to recover its data and put its employees back to work? What does it cost if your employees can’t work for a week? $50.000? $100.000? At what point will you decide to pay those who keep your data hostage? You really have to … Continued
We have covered the risks of public clouds frequently and governments seem to take notice. While the German Federal Government has already decided to rely on a Nextcloud-provided, private cloud solution, other governments are still searching. Many rely on US cloud services and, like the Dutch recently found out, have … Continued
This post was originally written in German by the German Federal Youth Council. Nextcloud is free software for sharing and collaboratively working with files, appointments, tasks, chatting, video conferencing, collaborating and much more. Nextcloud scales from small teams to many thousands of users – and even quite simple web hosting … Continued
One of the more powerful features in Nextcloud is the auto-tagging feature combined with files retention control. This enables admins to control the life cycle of data. For example, you could delete files replacing email attachments using the latest version of the Nextcloud Secure Sharing Outlook Add-in after a set … Continued
Businesses increasingly feel the effects of a data breach. The results range from compromise of client or customer data to third-party control over the entire business operation. The direct costs can be significant and when legal liabilities and the cost of cleanup, lost productivity and the effects of stolen data … Continued
2018 has been a hard year for public clouds. From Dropbox sharing data from over 400.000 academic users over for research to the fascinating news that Microsoft gave up on a more secure, German-hosted Office 365. Did you know you can’t upload a document with ‘offensive language’ to OneDrive? And … Continued
North-West University features three locations, with the furthest over 200Km away from Potchefstroom where IT maintains their servers in two data centers. In October 2017, the university introduced a successor to the once-innovative network drive: a modern collaboration platform consisting of Nextcloud and Collabora Online. Today we publish a case … Continued
Article by Swapnil Bhartiya, published earlier in German on cloudcomputing-insider.de Knowledge is power and that power exists in the form of data. Sharing of knowledge is the bedrock of any scientific or research community. Data needs to be sharable among peers so different communities can work together in a collaborative … Continued
Tirana, Ålesund, Vaulx-en-Velin, Geneva, Bochum: What do these cities have in common? Not much, at first sight – the first one is the capital of Albania, the second is located in Norway, while the third one can be found in France, then there’s Switzerland and the last one, in Germany. … Continued
Nextcloud is pleased to announce that the German Federal Information Technology Center (ITZBund) has chosen Nextcloud as their solution for efficient and secure file sharing and collaboration in a public tender. Nextcloud is operated by the ITZBund, the central IT service provider of the federal government, and made available to … Continued
For good reasons, you decided to go for an open source solution but there are several different projects to choose from. Which one to pick? Here are four things to keep an eye on. 1. Health of the project By far the most important question is: how healthy is the … Continued
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