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Several services at Brown allow you to share and store files. This guide will let you compare the options and decide which one(s) are right for you.

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Storage Options

Several services at Brown allow you to share and store files. These different storage services each have their own relative benefits and features.

Storage Selection Tool

Answering the questions in the form will provide a list of services that meet your requirements.

How much data do you have?
What is the risk classification of your data?Brown Data Risk Classification
With what frequency will you access your data?

Hot: accessed frequently for active model fitting/analysis

Warm: accessed infrequently for reading/writing

Cold: effectively never accessed (aka "archival storage" for funding obligations for completed analyses)

Hot: accessed frequently for active model fitting/analysis Warm: accessed infrequently for reading/writing Cold: effectively never accessed (aka "archival storage" for funding obligations for completed analyses)
Do you require data snapshots?

Point-in-time copies of your data that allow you to restore files to previous versions if they are accidentally deleted or corrupted.

Point-in-time copies of your data that allow you to restore files to previous versions if they are accidentally deleted or corrupted.
Do you require data replication?

Creates multiple copies of your data across different storage locations to protect against hardware failures and ensure high availability.

Creates multiple copies of your data across different storage locations to protect against hardware failures and ensure high availability.
Is integration with Canvas required?
Do you need access to your data from Oscar?
Would you like a DOI auto-generated for your data?Brown University Library
Search results: Showing 8 of 8 service(s)

Hibernate

Hibernate is a secure, reliable, research data archive solution. Hibernate is a Brown OIT archival service for the research community to migrate inactive data off active Network-attached storage (NAS) platforms onto a lower cost, long-term retention environment.

Hibernate leverages StarFish, an application that provides a metadata and rules-based management framework for large file systems. StarFish makes storage tiering easy: moving data, reporting, zones.

A zone is a virtual-volume or collection of branches across different file-systems (oscar, files22, etc.). Each PI group is distributed into an individual zone. A zone provides:

  • Types/sizes of files, access times
  • Hot Spots (Growth, user(s)/Group(s)
  • Action: Archive, Delete, Recover
Request HibernateHibernate DocumentationStarfish Documentation

Globus

Globus is a secure, reliable, research data management service. With Globus, subscribers can move, share, and discover data via a single interface–whether your files live on a supercomputer, lab cluster, tape archive, public cloud or your laptop–you can manage this data from anywhere via just a web browser and using your existing identities. Transfers are facilitated through endpoints. Endpoints are data locations pointing to subscribers' specific datasets like a researcher's personal Google drive, research share or a folder on a computer.

Globus Documentation