The servers are owned by the ICT Services department of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). System management is carried out jointly by ICT Services and DANS ICT support. All servers are hosted in the secure Interxion data centre in Amsterdam and are separated into dedicated network segments.
Data are stored using SURFcumulus’ Object Store service and are replicated across three geographically separate locations in and around Amsterdam (at distances of 6, 8 and 12 km from each other).
Because Object Store currently lacks its own backup functionality, DANS uses Microsoft Azure, also part of the SURFcumulus suite, for off-site backups. All data are encrypted before upload, and encrypted backups are stored exclusively within the Netherlands.
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