Main topic of the CLOSER 2017 conference was the current progress on infrastructure, operations and available services of cloud computing affecting the global network. In addition, methods and techniques for design, administration and marketing played a significant role.

For the conference, the paper entitled “A CKAN Plugin for Data Harvesting to the Hadoop Distributed File System” was accepted. This was written by SQC scientists Philipp Lämmel, Nikolay Tcholtchev and Robert Scholz as well as the FOKUS Institute Management Ina Schieferdecker.