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title: HIFIS Services
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  - services/backbone/index_ger.html
  - services/backbone
  - mission/cluster-backbone.html
  - services/cloud/index_eng.html
  - services/cloud/index_ger.html
  - services/cloud
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  - services/software/index_eng.html
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HIFIS ensures an excellent information environment for outstanding research
in all Helmholtz research fields. 

## Software
The service portfolio of HIFIS Software is structured into 4 different
components that seamlessly interoperate with each other:
Education & Training, Technology, Consulting and Community Services.

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## Cloud
In the Helmholtz Cloud, members of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres provide selected IT-Services for joint use.

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{% endfor -%}
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## Backbone
High-performance trusted network infrastructure with unified basic services.

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{% endfor -%}
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## Overall
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