{"id":12925,"date":"2020-04-08T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web2.nextcloud.com\/?post_type=press_releases&p=12925"},"modified":"2022-11-08T17:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T15:45:20","slug":"pr20200408","status":"publish","type":"press_releases","link":"https:\/\/staging.nextcloud.com\/fr\/blog\/press_releases\/pr20200408\/","title":{"rendered":"German cloud giants launch GDPR-compliant collaboration platform for schools, government agencies and SMB"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Homeschooling and home office just became compliant with privacy regulations and easy: Nextcloud, IONOS and the managed service provider Viakom today make available a collaboration solution that enables GDPR-compliant and secure collaboration. The offer is aimed in particular at schools, authorities and small and medium-sized companies. The solution is based on the Nextcloud Hub application, including all the functions that users expect from a modern collaboration platform: telephony, chat and video conferencing system, collaborative document processing, a mail server and client as well as task and calendar management. The solution can be operated via easy mobile, desktop and web interfaces. It is hosted in the German IONOS data centers and distributed and administered by Viakom.<\/p>\n

The GDPR-compliant, fully managed solution can be implemented within 24 hours. In contrast to foreign SaaS solutions, thanks to the cooperation of three German companies, users have no data protection issues and data leaks to worry about.<\/p>\n

Corona crisis leads to rash decisions<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the corona crisis, many organizations are forced to rapidly introduce collaboration tools without first subjecting them to risk analysis. This leads to major problems with data sovereignty – especially in the past few weeks, this has become increasingly apparent in the media. It is important to bring a European alternative to the market, \u201dsays Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud. In the past, there have been increasing voices pointing to the legal risks for schools, authorities and companies when using non-European solutions. In summer 2019, the Hesse State Data Protection Officer noted the use of the well-known US cloud solutions in schools is not GDPR compliant. The data protection officer of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg also warned against their use and recommended the use of Nextcloud and other open source solutions.<\/p>\n

Online collaboration cannot be replaced in a crisis – neither can data protection<\/strong><\/p>\n

Covid-19 has fundamentally changed the nature of work in many organizations. \u00ab\u00a0Public institutions, schools and companies will have to deal with being constantly online and have to offer cloud services to their users,\u00a0\u00bb says Karlitschek. Public cloud services have been a temporary solution for many, bringing risks and limits. Now it’s up to the organizations to quickly find and deploy more secure, locally hosted and managed solutions.<\/p>\n

The offer is free during a 30-day trial period. After that there are monthly costs of 9.50 euros per user. Discounted tariffs are offered for educational institutions and authorities.<\/p>\n

Use the following link and request your own offer and provision of the Managed Nextcloud service: https:\/\/nextcloud.com\/ionos<\/a><\/p>\n

About IONOS<\/h2>\n

With more than eight million customer contracts, IONOS is the leading European provider of cloud infrastructure, cloud services and hosting services. The product portfolio offers everything that companies need to be successful in the cloud: from domains, classic websites and do-it-yourself solutions, online marketing tools to full-fledged servers and an IaaS solution. The portfolio is aimed at freelancers, business people and consumers as well as corporate customers with complex IT requirements.<\/p>\n

IONOS was created in 2018 from the merger of 1&1 Internet and the Berlin IaaS provider ProfitBricks. 1&1 IONOS is part of the listed United Internet AG (ISIN DE0005089031). The 1&1 IONOS brand family includes STRATO, Arsys, Fasthosts, home.pl, InterNetX, SEDO, United Domains and World4You.<\/p>\n

About Nextcloud<\/h2>\n

Nextcloud Hub is the industry-leading, fully open source, on-premises team productivity platform, combining the easy user interface of consumer-grade cloud solutions with the security and compliance measures enterprises need. Nextcloud Hub brings together universal access to data through mobile, desktop and web interfaces with next-generation, on-premise secure communication and collaboration features like real-time document editing, chat and video calls, putting them under direct control of IT and integrated with existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Nextcloud’s easy and quick deployment, open, modular architecture and emphasis on security and advanced federation capabilities enable modern enterprises to leverage their existing file storage assets within and across the borders of their organization. For more information, visit nextcloud.com<\/a> or follow @Nextclouders<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n

About Viakom<\/h2>\n

Viakom GmbH is a managed service provider and software development company specializing in ICT solutions for the B2B market. The Viakom experts and specialists from the sister company Nextrag Solutions GmbH combine know-how in the areas of managed service consulting, software development and sales and support. In-house software developments in the area of \u200b\u200b(Vo)IP technology and monitoring have been in use by well-known telecommunications network operators since 2009.<\/p>\n

The managed service business, especially in the area of \u200b\u200bcommunication solutions, has also been gaining in importance for Viakom over the last years. The strategic alliance with Nextcloud and 1 & 1 IONOS provides customers in the German market a scalable and flexible, but above all fully managed collaboration solution that can be implemented quickly and easily by our specialists. Contacts are available both remotely and at the three company locations (Flensburg \/ Handewitt, Berlin \/ Hennigsdorf and Neum\u00fcnster).<\/p>\n

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