The GWDG offers PostgreSQL as a new service to it’s customers now. The GWDG already offers OracleSQL as a service for big and complex databases and MySQL appropriate for web services. Now we offer PostgreSQL to our customers. It is suitable for sophisticated statements and is especially useful in the bioinformatics and for geolocation data. Beside well known extensions like PostBIS and PostGIS there are several other extensions available. More information about the new service can be found in an article in the GWDG News 8-9/2018.

The August/September issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• New Service “PostgreSQL“
• Using the Enhancement Options of Microsoft PowerShell for IT Specialist Apprenticeship
• International Summer School on Data Science 2018
• Completion of the MIKELANGELO Project
• Ending of the EU Horizon 2020 Project “NEPHELE“

>> Click here for the GWDG News 8-9/2018

The July issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Cooperation between Göttingen University, DLR and GWDG in the Field of HPC
• TSM/ISP Updates
• GWDG successful certified according to EN ISO 9001:2015
• Lower Saxony‘s Universities build up their own Cloud Infrastructure
• Migration of GWDG Cloud Share to GWDG ownCloud
• Digital Long-term Archiving for the DNB with koala

>> Click here for the GWDG News 7/2018

Secure File Sharing in Education and Research

ownCloud, the open platform for better productivity and security within digital collaboration, and the “Landesarbeitskreis Niedersachsen für Informationstechnik / Hochschulrechenzentren (LANIT),” the association of the central IT of the universities of Lower Saxony, today announced the official launch of their joint collaboration platform “AcademicCloud.” The service offers students and employees of Lower Saxony’s universities the opportunity to store up to 50 GB of data in their personal cloud as well as to share and

The June issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• New joint Data Centre on Göttingen Campus
• Checking and Saving in the Batch Upload of BExIS++
• Research Data Alliance – A Global Initiative for Standards in Research Data
• Improvements on Backing up StorNext Filesystems
• Continuous Delivery for the GWDG Customer Portal

>> Click here for the GWDG News 6/2018