Private Cloud for Collaboration and e-Learning Services: from IaaS ...

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trust relation provided by Shibboleth. Since CollabSoft is fully Shibboleth-enabled, a
new DFN-AAI collaboration service an be created within a couple of hours without
importing user-data from remote member-directory-services. Figure 10 shows a map
of all DFN-AAI members who are using the wiki.
Fig. 10 Map of German DFN-AAI member using IMZ wiki
The following list sums up the advantages of CollabSoft:
– Fast setup time of a new collaboration/project management environment.
– Uniform environment that follows a corporate design.
– Self adminstration by the user.
– No administration of single users needed if using Shibboleth. Only configuration
of access level by attributes and rules.
– No additional user management necessary if used by HFU organizations due to
preconfigured connection to LDAP directory.
– Persistent storage of instance possible due to snapshots of a CollabSoft VM.