Several services at Brown allow you to share and store files. These different storage services each have their own relative benefits and features. You can explore the differences with our comparison tool using the link below.

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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.

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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 (GPFS, Isilion, LRS 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

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