Designing geo-distributed content storage capabilities for the French defense procurement agency, with military-grade encryption across all geographic sites.
The DGA (Direction Générale de l'Armement) required a study on implementing geo-distributed storage within a Nuxeo-based content management system deployed as a global cluster across all geographic sites.
Defense operations span multiple geographic sites, each with local teams requiring immediate access to operational content. The constraint: all external data flows are subject to military-grade encryption, which is both costly and limited in capacity.
The solution needed to ensure that content is available to all users across all sites, while physically storing each document on the local cluster node closest to its primary users. Remote content must be available on-demand through scheduled pre-positioning, minimizing encrypted cross-site transfers.
Global cluster deployment across all geographic sites. Each node operates autonomously while maintaining full content synchronization capabilities.
Content physically stored on the local node closest to its primary users. Global availability with local-first access patterns.
All cross-site data flows encrypted to defense standards. Architecture designed to minimize external transfer volumes given encryption capacity constraints.
Users can schedule the transfer of large remote content to their local node in advance, avoiding real-time encrypted transfer bottlenecks.
A comprehensive study defining how Nuxeo can operate as a geo-distributed cluster optimized for defense-grade constraints.
Multi-node Nuxeo cluster topology spanning all DGA geographic sites. Each node fully operational independently, with controlled synchronization between nodes.
Content affinity rules ensuring documents are stored on the node closest to their primary users. Metadata replicated globally, binaries stored locally.
Architecture designed to minimize cross-site encrypted traffic. Differential synchronization, compression, and intelligent caching to stay within military encryption bandwidth limits.
User-facing capability to request pre-positioning of remote content on the local node. Planned transfers during low-traffic windows to optimize encrypted bandwidth usage.
Full data sovereignty at every node. No content leaves the defense perimeter. Encryption standards aligned with French military requirements for classified systems.
Capacity planning for growing document volumes across all sites. Horizontal scaling strategy for adding new geographic nodes as defense operations expand.
A global content catalog accessible from any defense site, with physical storage optimized for local access. No dependency on cross-site bandwidth for daily operations.
Every cross-site transfer encrypted to defense standards. Architecture designed to minimize transfer volumes, respecting the inherent constraints of military-grade encryption infrastructure.
Scheduled content pre-positioning eliminates real-time bottlenecks. Users anticipate their needs, and the system delivers content to the local node during optimal transfer windows.
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