 So the topic of the talk is I want to talk a little bit about what's going on in in in next cloud What happened in the last year and where we want to go in the in the future so The people the one of you were here like last year we did a similar event way smaller last year might Might remember What all happened the last 12 months when I collected all put together my slides a few days ago I was really like I mean I knew that we had a lot of things are going on that we a lot of to make a lot of progress and Partners and scalability and features and all areas, but it's really I'm really is I'm really blown away What what all happened in just 12 months? So this is the topic of my of my talk and also a little bit of an officer of the outlook into the future So this is our this is our mission our our vision. This is what we want to do We want to do be the most secure fulcrum and chair communication and collaboration solution So you want to enable you to control your data to control your communication and Collaborate together with others. This is what we want to do and I have this here again as a reminder Because there are a few interesting things here In this in in this statement first is secure You might wonder what this really is. We have an interesting security talk later. What is secure? You might think okay, where is The interesting thing about next loudest day is open source, right? And it's also interesting that I can host it myself, but it's not here There's no open source here. There's no self hosting here The reason for that that I think that this is part of security So from my understanding if you want to have a solution, which is really secure Then I think it has to be open source Because then you and others can actually review the code and can see what's going on the development process completely transparent So this is just part part of a real secure solution and self hosting too So I have a slide in a second an example where I hosted solutions are sometimes good I'm not saying that if you get your solution from the service provided. That's a bad thing It can be totally fine, but there are a few things to consider Another thing that you might might see here is communication and collaboration most of you probably think the next cloud is falsely can share only and It's true. This was our Elevator pitch our mission at the very beginning So a few years ago when this was all started the elevator pitch was yaldas is a self-hosted open source drop-off Google Drive or OneDrive So sharing files Synchronizing files and yes, this is absolutely still the absolute core of next cloud But I really think and believe that this is only the first step that there are more steps coming Because what falsely can share basically does it gives you access to your files and the part of people can share files with you There suddenly is a new file popping up on your desktop because someone shared something with you That's great and suddenly you have a file But you wonder where it comes from what it is. Can I can I edit it together with someone else? Can I? Talk to the person who sent it to me. It's a way to communicate And this is all integrated is their context. Is there something? that basically enables me to do something with this file because files are just like making Basically giving me access to the data, but at the end you want to do something with it And this is why we think that communication and collaboration is really the next the next step That's the natural progression the natural next step for our product So you might have might have seen the latest news I really strongly recommend that you that you that you have a look at this blog post And that just a road on our website. Here's the URL at the bottom here Have a look. This is really interesting because there's actually interesting things going on This is like about the aspect of self-hosting versus service provider thing. I mean, you all probably saw the ongoing discussions about Safe Harbor and privacy shield, which is like under heavy discussions on the from the US side and Honestly, I'm not really sure what's what's will be the outcome. That's unclear So the Trump administration That's signed on executive order earlier this year. We are that which basically contradicts the privacy shield So it's not really clear if this will Stay or not But a real interesting thing and this is why I have these slides here is what happened like two weeks ago because two weeks ago to to federal Judges in the US to independent and federal judges ruled that if data is stored by a US company in a different by by US Companies in other countries that it still is Falls under the US jurisdiction But this basically means That if if you are storing data With I don't know sales for us or Microsoft or Google and they say no problem This is all in a US data center. Well, this is probably not going to help you at all So these are two to two federal judges at the moment who did this and the next step is the supreme court So this will be done the final decision if this is The way it goes or not. This is obviously not really clear What's the outcome is but the way it looks like is that this is their their way of seeing it and this really means that If you're using for example of a 365 Which has actually an offering where you can get it hosted in a German data center Then the expectation is that it is follows like European law. This is might not actually not be the case So I'm not saying that all all hosted solutions are our problem not at all Not everybody has their own hosting centers totally fine But but I really strongly believe in that you should have a look Who hosts your data? Who controls your data? What software is running it? And I really think you should have a choice and this is why a solution like next cloud is really important Because then you have a choice. They are more than one way to host it You have the choice between different providers you can host it yourself You really want to or you move it somewhere else if you don't like the provider anymore You can go to a different one. You have the choice. I think this is really important Especially looking into the future that might come Okay, let's dive into the real topic of my talk which is so what's new so I'm usually we get questions Requests from customers and partners in three different areas. It's just like hey, what's going on in scalability is really important What do you do? Do you have a solution for us? Security obviously, I mean this whole product of ours is totally useless if it's not secure obviously So that's absolutely key and then collaboration as I said earlier. This is our strategic direction for the future Okay, let's talk a little bit about scalability So scalability First of all, I want to say that I'm actually a little bit proud of the fact and that next cloud is software that Runs totally fine on a Raspberry Pi like for three users But also runs totally fine on a cluster with hundreds thousands of users and this is exactly the same code So you don't really see a software that often that's really scale some really small to really big So this is something which is already nice The reason this is the case is because Next cloud is built From an architectural perspective built as a normal web application, I would say so we have something like a like a like an application server web server at the top and then we have like a database and then we have some storage And you can basically Cluster all of those right you can have instead of one web server here You can have like hundreds or even thousands if you want And the same with the storage and the same with the database so this is basically just Standard architecture where you can get off the shelf hardware and software Solutions to do this and this is why it's really really easy to scale and there will be a talk from from Morris later today How how to do this with a lot more detail? So this is basically the standard the standard way to do it Another thing I want to mention are just performance improvements So it's next load 11 and 12 we did a ton of performance improvements and those way are the other charts That we did is our own benchmarks. So with different common Operations on on a next load server like uploading a file downloading a file sharing a file Accessing a shared file and so on we really see like significant performance improvements But this is like these are all like artificial benchmarks and you never know how it really behaves in real-world scenario and this is why I Was really happy when I heard that Dr. Hillman here from Technical University Berlin, which is also our host here So it's which is awesome did extensive performance tests with his team when they migrated to next cloud earlier and The outcome was that in in a real-world scenario with real users with real use cases The database load was up to 50% lower. So basically cut it in half. So this is not just Just artificial Benchmarks here, but it's in the real world It can also see it in the real world And I think Thomas Hildman has a talk later to talk a little bit more about this too And it's really interesting. So if one of you is running a big instance just switching to the next latest next load Saves you a lot of hardware So the next thing I want to talk about is storage and and Next cloud can access all kind of storage back ends already for a long time So we have an S3 connector and a swift connector for object stores We can access all kind of NFS mounted storage GPFS all kind of other storages So this is all good But we wanted to take us the next step basically and this is why that we are later today Like announcing a close partnership together with redhead I think we also have a talk later to hear a little bit more about this the yes redhead So what we what we will do is we work together to integrate like safe closer into next cloud to improve the performance And we will also have like a package That you can buy together with the both of us with redhead and redhead storage As the foundation and next load on top of it with real Professional enterprise support everything you need fully optimized with recommended architectures. So this is something That you that you can get Starting today basically But again a little bit more about this later And then the last thing I want to talk about is global scale Because everything I said so far is basically standard clustering standard clustering of web applications And as I said, it's worked really well up to hundreds of thousands of users But the solution we had has a few limitations basically three things we wanted to overcome First of all if you want to have more than ten hundred thousands of users So actually one of our customers our next cloud customers that we worked with in the last few months has actually 20 million users So and this scale you can't really put all of them in one database or all of them in one storage So we need a better solution second request was Hey Is there a way to to you have like different data centers somehow working together because we have offices in different countries of the world Can we somehow use them all together? Although it really has to be monolithic Like in basically in one place Consolidated or can it be spread out? Can it be flexible? Can I? Switch on more hardware during runtime removed in later basically have it like distributed And the third thing is just hardware and storage cost as one of you Some of you might know if you really buy hardware and software That is optimized for a lot of users than the cost might really grow exponentially I mean what Storage boxes cost nowadays if you really need petabytes of data. It's really Impressive, so this is something we wanted to overcome Software design storage with redhead storage is part of a solution But what we really wanted to achieve to have the option to use commodity hardware basically So this is what we do with global scale and pion will talk about this later. I think this is really interesting Outlook of what we can do here Okay, then the second point want to talk about the security obviously security is very important for us First of all, I'm a bit proud to say that the NCC group reviewed our our security processes last year And we got really high high marks So at least they think we think it too of that bit what we are doing is is good a state of the art So you can be sure that we handle security incidents correctly that we do our patches correctly That we do inform our customers correctly in the tennis and our right time frame and so on so this is This is important Second thing is authentication. I mean obviously Authentication is absolutely key for secure solution And we support all the standard protocols LDAP active directory Samu also shipolas ADFS since the latest version All of this is open source by the way So you can just use it Independently from a subscription from us in the latest version next lot 12. We also added ORS to and a lot of Different ways of two-factor authentication with hardware tokens and software tokens and SMS and so on and we also included brute force protection Which is useful If you have a service that's accessible from the internet More about this from Arthur. So Arthur is the main author of a lot of those technologies I will talk later about ways to to support this and Then the last slide about security That will be a really interesting talk from Lucas. I recommend To attend this and he will talk about a few innovations in security space that we're working on at the moment One is a complete new login flow. This is something that we do on all our clients So this is really helpful to overcome some of the limitations that exist in the past like Sometimes if you run into a time out or if a token expires if the Kerberos token expires or if assemble token expires sometimes Weird things happen and it's not really smooth and we basically develop a complete new flow that really overcomes these limitations Another thing is like just a few weeks ago. We launched ransomware protection app This is just a way where you can make sure that encrypted files are not Synchronized to your to your next cloud account. So that's basically your backup is not also infected And then we are also happy to to work with you to implement Company security policies or other regulations that you might have in your organization such this week For example, a customer came to us and with some special requirements They wanted to block like certain kinds of authentication from certain IP spaces and we Develop this together with them in a few hours and and help them to to respect their their policies. So it's also something we can do Okay, this brings me to the last point which is collaboration As I said before, this is our strategic direction. We want to provide a Solution which is more than falsely in chair really with a lot of communication collaboration feature features and To be honest, it's really blew me away when I started to collect What news? Basically, we have what new features what improvements we developed just in the last month And this is just a a quick list of the obvious stuff. This is only the big features That be implemented for example the video audio calling technology from spree So you can do audio video calling directly from inside next cloud. We integrated a chat app So you can chat directly from inside next cloud also is client integration XMPP, which is really nice We have these new navigation on top I can switch between apps quicker because if you do it and do more than just file management If you also use the calendar and the mail app and the video calling app and so on you can switch back and forward really fast You have this new group menu on top where you have access to your colleagues that you work with Most often often you can search for them You can look at the most used ones click on them and say call this person or share with this person or email this person chat with This person is very convenient and we have the same pop over and in all over all over all the other places, too So if you have a comment of a file for example of you get a share invite You can always click on the avatar and say, okay Let's let's call this person and ask why has this person shared this file with me And then maybe you can switch over to a video call and then start a collaborative editing session or something and then save it back So it's really deeply integrated We have activities for files and folders so on the sidebar you can always see What's going on in this folder if there's I don't know if you look at the marketing folder And then you can basically see who edited what when or did which change It's really interesting and this also works completely federated so implemented federated activities So you can see if you have federated share between different servers You can see what people on the other server side are doing with your shared file Really I'm really useful social sharing share by mail to make it easier the circles app is really interesting So this is like user defined groups. So if you work together With a small group of people in a project for example, you can all put them into your own group You don't have to use your adult Groups we can basically create your own local ones and use them for communication and for sharing and all kinds of things Push notification is really big. So if something happens in your and your next cloud Basically a second later you get a push notification on your phones. If you have a share invite or chat message or Something else a comment or if you mentioned somewhere. It's really useful a guest app to create like apps the federation itself is like Completely basically extended in all areas with the lookup server. You can find people on different servers So if you work together with other organizations, you can actually find people even if they use a different directory or different different authentication and Of course, we have the global shares which enables admins Just create shares for the whole company for the whole university or certain held up group I'm just in the same way you create a share on windows on Samba So this is not like this basically person-to-person sharing. This is like admin to group shares, which is really requested feature for a long time When this is just the beginning, right? I could go on forever. We have like all Lot of improvements all in the area of collaboration. This is really the future from our perspective Okay, let's talk a little bit about a few bigger features that are really interesting in my opinion First is outlook integration. This is another feature which was requested for a long long long time and We have this for for a few months now Outlook integration actually means two different things. We have to be careful to don't mix it together The first thing is that we have a connector that you from inside outlook You couldn't access the next load calendar and contacts Basically use it as a full-fledged group where we can do that and there's also a second kind of connector Which might mean the more interesting one, which is Basically a plug-in for outlook where you can use next load to handle attachments So maybe if you want to send like a big attachment or even a small one by mail This plug-in can take the attachment out of your mail that you're writing Uploading it to next load creating a shelling and putting a shelling into the mail and sending it out so this is really useful because I mean you save a lot of money if you exchange so whatever you use is using a little bit more storage You might know that this is actually really a problem if you have a lot of big attachments in your mail Server so you can overcome this and of course you also overcome the limitations of attachment sizes and so on so this is really really super useful and This outlook plug-in Was developed by a partner so Luke is also giving a talk later about this How this works we started with this with a basic version last year extended it like a lot a few weeks ago and Also launched a free version so you get like the enterprise great version With a subscription from us, but you can also use it for free for smaller instances if you want and all of that By the way, it's also available for Thunderbird if you prefer not to use an outlook. So you have the same functionality Okay Then next thing I wanted to mention is obviously Collabra Collabra online. So this is a super popular feature. So this is something that Michael is it here? Yeah, I Still remember like it wasn't and at foster them always Together in the evening on a bus stop somewhere and you basically pitch this new idea that hey, maybe we can run like Libra office like in the pros a collaborative and Yeah, we keep on talking and now since since since a while already It's actually a really useful powerful product and it's really popular also in from our customers So this is something which basically means it's a feature Works really similar to what Microsoft's office is office 365. You can edit Word and Excel and and PowerPoint files in your browser And because it's running a full Libra office in the background the compatibility is actually really really good So we experimented some of you might notice with client side odf rendering Documents app a few years ago. This was really Well, not so successful because at some point I figure that if really have to implement workarounds for all the small Microsoft Glitches in there in the document format. This will take us like 10 years to make it really useful So this really was really another way to go. But with this solution. We basically Yeah, we can we use the knowledge that was that exist in Libra office and all the products before for I don't know how long 25 years or longer But this is really really nice and it's really compatible with most of the the formulas Excel is really good compatibility and obviously It can learn more than just edit in the browser because you can edit it collaboratively This is really useful and and I'm also a little bit proud about what we can do here from a workflow perspective So if you some people compare this with Google Docs what we have here but I actually think it's way more powerful because with Google Docs the workflow is still that if you have a Word file on your desktop and you edit this word and you save it And then you have to go to Google Docs side and if you import it Then it's there and then you can edit it there and they send out like invitation links to other people and can edit It together and then at some point you have to say okay great Thanks a lot Please all stop now because now I'm exporting it again and putting it back into my company server somewhere This is really strange because this is really I don't know not so good in this case. It's way more smooth I mean, I can just like create like a normal word file with word on my desktop I just save it and if I save it into a next-cloud folder, it's automatically I'm uploaded to the server and with another click and can on the desktop I don't you have to go to the web interface share it with other people and send the share link to someone and they can click on the link and the browser Opens and you edit the file you edit the file directly that exists on the server And every time they're closed it or they save it It's saved back to the file on the server Which is then synchronized back to my desktop and it's just updated in my normal folder Which I can at any time also open with normal word. So there's no import or export at all It's just completely seamless. So this is really nice Yeah, and Michael also will give a talk later to tell us a little bit all the upcoming features So I this is something which I think is really powerful and exciting The last thing I wanted to mention is the next-cloud education edition So this is something we launched a few weeks ago on Education edition basically means You have a normal next-cloud instance and you have some kind of extended functionality Implement as apps that are optimized for the education and science sector that you can use on top of a normal next-cloud And we have like a the Moodle integration that most of you might know really powerful e-learning system Which is integrated. We have Zenodo. This is something comes from CERN for publishing scientific papers We have a dashboard Implemented by regio IT someone IT company works with a lot of schools in Germany the circles app that we developed together with dyke for the user groups Or kit also from for CERN And then also I'm univention where we do a virtual machine together And then Peter will also give a talk about this in a second and what I find interesting here I want to point this out that all the stuff I mentioned here actually was done By partners or together with partners So my the real interesting message I want to send here with the education edition is this is just not more features so this is basically a signal that Because of the way next-cloud is licensed because it's open source and because we don't require a contributor agreement or something like that It's really easy and really good to collaborate with others because there is no need of transferring any intellectual property or Maybe you can't use your own feature anymore if you don't if you cancel your your enterprise subscription or something like that So that doesn't exist anymore. We are basically can work together with partners like Is equals and this is really powerful and this is why we already have so many partners where we develop functionality together And this all of those are developed together with partners. So this is something I wanted to point out Okay, so this is my my last slide Again, I want to wish you a great day a lot of information good conversations And I don't know do we still have time for some questions or should we directly move on?