Keynote: Nextcloud to the rescue at the North West University
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Three-campus university (300 km between sites) with ~6,000 permanent staff and >110,000 including distance learners replaces fragile USB hard‑drive workflows (data losses costing ~€15,000) by deploying Nextcloud with Collabora Online, a load balancer, LDAP/Grouper access control, one MariaDB, an interface server and SAFE-backed storage; GDPR/POPIA compliance keeps data in-country, exam papers and multi‑campus course materials become single shared documents, and future plans include Elasticsearch full‑text search, Talk for conferencing and federation with other institutions.
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