About
OpenCloud as a new star in the sync & share open source products constellation that is in the center of interest of the CS3 community for its capability to build and operate sovereign, large scake data platforms for file sharing and data-based collaboration.
OpenCloud was created as a next-generation sync & share software stack, fully based on a microservices architecture. Since the well-known fork, it has undergone significant development aimed at strengthening functionality, scalability, and market presence.
Since 2015 PSNC operates several sync & share platforms and services based on various software stacks: Seafile for the country-wide services for academia (box.pionier.net.pl), Nextcloud for some internal projects and user groups and ownCloud for the purposes of EOSC EU Node.
OpenCloud gained our interest as the potential next stage EFSS platform for country-wide service for academic users and as the EFSS platform that is architecturally feasible for integration with compute and processing environments including: cloud, HPC and AI platforms. Its open architecture, allows developing functional extensions as micro-services also enables integrations with data repository services, open data systems, FAIR-oriented tools, and large scale long-term storage systems, possibly including tape based cold storage.
In our work we focus on the gaining the first impressions of using and operating OpenCloud within the proof of concept initiative that started in 2025/2025 with the intention to extend the scope of work during 1-2Q of 2026. Our evaluation and testing included deployment and back-end storage integration features and will include extensive performance testing.
While our work is still a work in progress, we are willing to share the early results and impressions with the CS3 community. As OpenCloud seems to be a promising technology for dealing with our 1PB+ datasets under sync & share, we are planning to test OpenCloud at relevant scale of multiple TBs and…
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Speaker
- Jan Bróździak
- Year
- 2026
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Computer science
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
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