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...
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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...
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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....
Ver másArticle by Swapnil Bhartiya, published earlier in German on cloudcomputing-insider.deKnowledge 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...
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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...
Ver másFor 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...
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OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) is one of the many organizations that were involved with the release of the Panama Papers. Considering the nature of work OCCRP does, they rely heavily on vendor neutral, enterprise grade open source technologies. We talked to Michał...
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Ofrecer una sólida protección de los datos es la mayor ventaja de Nextcloud sobre las nubes públicas. El autoalojamiento significa que tienes el control sobre tus datos. Por supuesto, hay que impedir el acceso no autorizado, y aquí es donde entra en juego la encriptación....
Ver másWhat is the GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation is a European regulation which aims at harmonizing and reshaping the way organizations handle personal data. Any information related to a natural person must be stored with the consent of the data subject in a secure...
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