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Nextcloud Context Chat is a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) based feature of Assistant, grounding a large language model’s responses to users’ prompts with the documents & data that they already store in Nextcloud. From Context Chat in the Nextcloud Assistant…

Integrating Nextcloud AI Assistant with Inference Engines & APIs

AI Infrastructure

AI as a Service, AI Assistant, AI Middleware, AI Proxy, ChatGPT Alternative, Generative AI, Locally Hosted AI, NextCloud, Open Source AI

Nextcloud Assistant, featured in the latest versions of Nextcloud Hub, extends the cloud storage & collaboration suite with a range of AI-powered capabilities, including GPT-style chat, text generation, and speech-to-text transcription. With the Smart Picker, you can use these features…

Software-Defined Distributed Storage for Kubernetes with Ceph

Cloud Infrastructure

Ceph, Cloud Storage, Clustered Filesystem, Container Orchestration, Encryption At-Rest, Kubernetes, NetApp ONTAP, NextCloud, NFS, Object Storage, Persistent Storage

Clustered filesystems are an essential component of scale-out, distributed systems, such as applications hosted on a Kubernetes cluster. They provide storage volumes which can be written to by multiple pods across multiple Kubernetes nodes simultaneously. Even if a storage device…

Kuberenetes RWX persistent volumes with Rook Ceph storage orchestrator

Clustered ReadWriteMany Filesystems for Kubernetes Persistent Volumes

Cloud Infrastructure

Ceph, Cloud Storage, Clustered Filesystem, Container Orchestration, Encryption At-Rest, Kubernetes, NetApp ONTAP, NextCloud, NFS, Object Storage, OpenZFS, Persistent Storage, TrueNAS

Many applications you might wish to deploy on a Kubernetes cluster require persistent storage in the form of PVCs (persistent volume claims) and PVs (persistent volumes). As the lifetime of a pod is ephemeral, and app data is not normally…

AI Document Data Pipelines with S3 or Azure Blob Storage

AI Infrastructure

Airbyte, AWS, Azure, BionicGPT, Data Pipelines, Generative AI, NextCloud, Object Storage, Open Source AI, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Vector Databases

Document data pipelines allow for the creation of automated workflows where an embedding model extracts text from documents added to a share and converts them into vector values that AI/ML applications can use for semantic search and as context for…

Nextcloud Assistant 2.0 – AI Text Gen with Phi-3 & Transcription with Whisper

AI Infrastructure

AI Assistant, , Generative AI, Microsoft Phi-3, NextCloud, Online Office Suite, Self-Hosted Apps, Small Language Models, Whisper

Nextcloud Assistant 2.0 is the self-hosted file sync & share and groupware suite’s answer to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Gemini for Google Workspace. Compared to Copilot and Gemini from its Big Tech brethren, Nextcloud Assistant has a number of unmatched…

Llama 3 on Cloudflare Workers AI – AI at the Edge

AI Infrastructure

AI as a Service, Cloud Run, CloudFlare, Docker, Edge AI, Generative AI, LibreChat, LiteLLM, Llama 3, NextCloud, Open LLM Models

Cloudflare Workers is a serverless computing platform leveraging Cloudflare’s global network of datacenters, also known as edge locations, in over 300 cities and 100 countries around the world. The Workers service is used by Cloudflare’s customers to host & run…

Maintaining a Secure Hybrid Workplace with Nextcloud

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Storage, Cybersecurity, NextCloud

The pandemic is finally subsiding in many parts of the world, bringing optimism for a vibrant, post-pandemic recovery that some say will be comparable to the Roaring Twenties period of the 1920s. Despite the brightening outlook, cyberattackers continue to take…

Performance & Feature Enhancements in Nextcloud

Open Source Apps

Cloud Performance, Cloud Storage, NextCloud

Highlights of Nextcloud 21 File Sync & Share and Groupware Solution Revamped Nextcloud Hub 21 New Whiteboard app Improved Text, Talk, and Groupware (Mail, Contacts) apps PHP 7.3 or 7.4 required, PHP 8.0 recommended Discontinued support for MySQL 5.7, MySQL…

Prevent Shadow IT by Modernizing Internal Services

Open Source Apps

MailCow, NextCloud, Privacy Protection

In 2020, both digitally native and traditional enterprises had to rapidly upgrade their internal IT services to meet the needs of an all-remote workforce. Prior to this year, many enterprises already had the trappings of the tools that would enable…

Community Document Server vs OnlyOffice NextCloud App

Open Source Apps

NextCloud, ONLYOFFICE, Open Source

The inclusion of the Community Document Server that could be installed with one-click from the NextCloud App Store was a key highlight of the launch of NextCloud Hub with NextCloud 18. It was also met with much controversy as a…

Migrating NextCloud from S3 Backend to S3FS Object Storage

Case Study

Cloud Migration, NextCloud, Object Storage

Autoize recently migrated a NextCloud instance hosted on AWS configured with the S3 primary storage backend to S3FS on behalf of a major restaurant franchise operator in the southwestern US. The client had stored 2.7 TB of contract and financial…