Fabasoft Folio Cloud is a

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service developed by Fabasoft in

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announced in April 2010. It focuses on enabling secure collaboration and is

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with

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and Android apps for use on mobile devices. The software is

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and offers a wide range of sophisticated functionality for

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and global collaboration, which can be extended by specialist cloud applications. Fabasoft places a large amount of focus on usability and

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Security

Folio Cloud is certified and tested according to the following security standards : ISO 27001:2005,

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, SAS 70 Type II. Fabasoft was also the first software manufacturer to receive

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certification – the European standard for

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. All Folio Cloud data is saved in

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in Europe, where European standards for security, reliability and data protection apply. Cloud data is kept permanently synchronized in two mirrored data centers in Austria so that a fail over is possible at any time. A backup of data is constantly maintained in a third data center. Further data center locations are being integrated in Germany and Switzerland and in future users will be able to decide at which data center location their data is stored. Folio Cloud is based on

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and does not contain any US-owned software. This prevents access to European cloud data by US authorities under the “

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”. All communication and transfer of data within Folio Cloud is encrypted via

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. Cloud access is protected by secure forms of authentication including

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with Motoky or SMS and login via digital ID. Folio Cloud has integrated the new German digital ID card, the Austrian Citizen Card with mobile signature and the SuisseID as forms of digital authentication. Fabasoft is active in the support of the advancement of European cloud infrastructure.

Mobile cloud

Folio Cloud supports all common web browsers, different operating systems and end user devices. Folio Cloud apps are also available on

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and the

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for use on Android and

devices. Folio Cloud supports open standards such as

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and

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Apps

Apps are online applications that extend the functionality of Folio Cloud to fulfill concrete use cases and needs.{{cite web , url=http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2012/02/cloud-apps-of-the-week-pocketcloud/ , archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119120613/http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2012/02/cloud-apps-of-the-week-pocketcloud/ , url-status=dead , archive-date=January 19, 2013 , title=Cloud Apps of the Week , author=Jeff Norman , date=February 28, 2012 , publisher=Cloud Tweaks , accessdate=March 28, 2012 All Folio Cloud Apps are available in the Fabasoft Cloud App Store. Fabasoft held its first Cloud Developer Conference (CDC) from December 15–17, 2010 as a free event for Cloud developers. Since then the event has taken place twice a year, once in the summer and once in the winter.

References

External links

Official Folio Cloud Website
Cloud platforms Centralized computing