SE-CNC - A Brazilian Experimental Cloud Storage Service
Roberto Samarone Araujo, Carlos Eduardo da Silva, Thomás Diniz, Tainá Gabrielle de Melo Medeiros, André Marins, Michael Anthony Stanton · 2014
Cloud-based storage services are increasingly common tools in the everyday life of teachers and researchers. Thus, the Cloud business model is a trend for those who are looking for scalability, availability, flexibility and fewer maintenance issues. The increasing demand for collaborative work has driven these users to commercial cloud solutions, such as Dropbox, Google drive or OneDrive, as the means to save and share presentations, lecture notes or research documents. Although those solutions offer many benefits for their users, they have a number of disadvantages, for example, commercial clouds store data on their own servers, which are subject to local rules and government laws, which are often not the same rules and laws to which their users are subject. Another disadvantage is related to the terms of use/privacy policy. In this context, we present CNC Cloud, Cloud Computing for Science, a project sponsored by the Brazilian NREN RNP (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa), which aims to offer a cloud storage service for researchers and lecturers at Brazilian education and research institutions.