Nextcloud federation at scale: Helmholtz Cloud's infrastructure for 14,500 science researchers

Helmholtz - Germany's largest research organization - relies on Nextcloud's federated features to provide secure research infrastructures and data sharing to 18 research centers all across Germany.
Andreas Klotz, Head of Helmholtz Federated IT Services (HIFIS) Cloud Cluster at HZB, shares how their federated Nextcloud cluster facilitates the daily data flows for 48,000 employees and 14,500 researches from all over the world.
Andreas and team noticed there was already Nextcloud everywhere at Helmholtz, through multiple Nextcloud instances, and decided to bring them all together into one federated cluster.
Nextcloud's strong open source commitment gave trust of just how much Helmholtz can be in control of their own data by using Nextcloud.
"With Nextcloud, collaboration for researchers has become really intuitive."
HIFIS relies heavily on Nextcloud's federation features, federated login, and open cloud mesh capabilities.
Learn more about Helmholtz:
www.helmholtz.de/
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Links:
OpenCloudMesh: nlnet.nl/proje...
OpenCloudMesh API: github.com/cs3...
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Great use case! Congratulations on the installation and deployment. Side note: The image stabilization in this video creates a moderately dizzying effect with an unusual parallax effect ;-)