Nextcloud, the opened upward rootage file sync together with online collaboration technology, has announced it volition last supplying the German linguistic communication federal authorities amongst a private, on-premises cloud platform every bit piece of occupation of a three-year contract.
The Federal Information Technology Center (ITZBund), which manages information technology services for the federal government, has been running a airplane pilot of 5,000 users amongst Nextcloud since Oct 2016 together with later a tender for a person cloud was won past times Computacenter, the Nextcloud applied scientific discipline volition straightaway last rolled out to 300,000 users inwards ministries together with other federal agencies.
Speaking to Der Spiegel, the ITZBund confirmed that the focus of the tender was “the structure of a person cloud for the federal government," to address concerns inside the authorities for a platform that it fully controlled; that would non permit access to information past times whatever tertiary party; together with that was fully GDPR compliant every bit the DSGVO (the German linguistic communication implementation of GDPR) volition come upward into upshot inwards May 2018.
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Nextcloud has added meaning collaborative features to it’s Dropbox-like, file syncing base of operations since ‘forking’ the rootage code from ownCloud together with setting upward trouble organization inwards Stuttgart inwards 2016. In the latest release, Nextcloud 13, it announced end-to-encryption on a per-folder dry reason together with Nextcloud Talk, an opened upward rootage fully self-hosted, consummate audio/video together with text communication platform.
Speaking to Der Spiegel, Managing Director at Nextcloud GmbH Frank Karlitschek said, "Nextcloud is to a greater extent than secure than a populace cloud solution because y'all tin run our software inwards its ain information centre that y'all trust, together with anyone tin inspect the code, banking concern fit for safety vulnerabilities, anytime, anywhere together with alter if necessary."
All of Nextcloud’s code is fully, certified past times OpenChain together with backed past times a Security Bug Bounty Program paying safety experts for whatever vulnerabilities that they uncover.
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