{"id":8459,"date":"2018-04-18T14:08:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8459"},"modified":"2018-04-18T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:12:34","slug":"german-federal-government-opts-for-open-source-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8459","title":{"rendered":"German Federal government opts for open source cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/Nextcloud_Logo.png\" alt=\"Nextcloud logo\" width=\"134\" height=\"95\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8475\" \/>Within the scope of its own cloud computing environment, the German Federal administration has opted for <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcloud.com\/\">Nextcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heise.de\/ix\/meldung\/Bundescloud-Open-Source-mit-Nextcloud-statt-Dropbox-oder-Google-Drive-4026111.html\">heise reports<\/a>. The software will in future be running by the Federal administration&#8217;s central IT service provider, the Federal Information Technology Centre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itzbund.de\/DE\/Home\/home_node.html\">ITZBund<\/a>). Unlike services such as Google Drive or Dropbox, Nextcloud is an open source project which users can install in their own computer centres.<\/p>\n<p>The project is targeted at some 300,000 users in various authorities and ministries. They will be able to share and synchronise files centrally using the service. Stuttgart-based Nextcloud GmbH is supporting the ITZBund based on an enterprise subscription for operation and support. However, individual licences per user or per system shall not be incurred.<\/p>\n<p>ITZBund tested Nextcloud with some 5,000 users in a pilot project before making its decision in favour of open source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the scope of its own cloud computing environment, the German Federal administration has opted for Nextcloud, heise reports. The software will in future be running by the Federal administration&#8217;s central IT service provider, the Federal Information Technology Centre (ITZBund). Unlike services such as Google Drive or Dropbox, Nextcloud is an open source project which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,9],"tags":[19,12,20,23],"class_list":["post-8459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-politics","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-politics-2","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8480,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}