Case Study: CSIC builds a sovereign research collaboration platform with Nextcloud

CSIC secures collaboration for 17,000 users with Nextcloud

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain's largest public research organization, faced challenges with fragmented research data across external cloud tools. This approach lacked data sovereignty, scalability, and secure collaboration for its thousands of researchers. CSIC selected Nextcloud to build a sovereign, on-premise research collaboration platform to regain control over its sensitive data.

The solution involved deploying an on-premise Nextcloud platform integrated with high-performance storage, including Nextcloud Files, Talk, Groupware, and Collabora. The Nextcloud implementation enabled 17,000 users to collaborate securely, with each receiving a 4 TB storage quota. This resulted in a 35% increase in platform usage over the past year, eliminating reliance on external services and ensuring full institutional control over research data.

Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Científicas (csic)