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Our 11 year fight for data sovereignty

Lilian Emming · CERN

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In 2014 we started SURFdrive since universities and higher education in the Netherlands did not want their data to end up at commercial cloud services. 11 years have gone by where the number of users increased, the amount of stored data increased and also the number of sync-and-share installations which went up from 1 to more than 40 serving about 80 institutes in total. Also sync-and-share we offer in two flavours, one for personal data but also one especially tailored for research purposes. The last few years however, we increasingly felt the competition from Microsoft in the form of a reducing number of users. Recently, the geopolitical situation has changed the landscape drastically. Next year we are going to start a large pilot project with more than 30 organisations where we want to show that there are vialble alternatives to Microsoft and that they can make a different choice.

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  1. Our 11 year fight for data sovereignty 2026-03-17 · 13 min · CERN's player

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CERN
Speaker
Lilian Emming
Year
2026
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science
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