About
Sunet Drive is a federated and scalable Enterprise File Sync and Share solution, that has been developed, deployed, and packaged as part of the European Open Science Cloud and can be transparently extended to new participating organizations. The two main building blocks of Sunet Drive are Nodes and Buckets, both elements designed to promote data sovereignty and FAIR principles. Participating organizations co-manage their Sunet Drive node as part of a global scale setup, meaning that every node is governed by the operating organization, while being able to collaborate and share data with users within the federation, but also external partners that support the open cloud mesh protocol (OCM), such as the ScienceMesh. New organizations have been and can be onboarded by migrating existing provisioned users to a full node associated to an organization or institution. Buckets, specifically S3-compatible buckets, are used as logical storage entities that can be assigned for different purposes: research projects, institutions, laboratories. They are technically independent from the EFSS layer and their lifecycle can therefore be managed beyond the lifetime of the selected EFSS software, an important step towards long-term sustainability for FAIR handling of data.
The infrastructure stack is implemented in collaboration with the commercial actor Safespring, and data generally resides in at least two different data centers. This ensures a scalable stack built on best practice open source components, together with experience in running large scale deployments. Certification standards such as ISO 27001 guarantee a mature handling of the infrastructure and data in the solution.
By having chosen a state-of-the-art EFSS solution for Sunet Drive, researchers, scientists, and their collaborators can align the requirements of their funding body and associated data management plans with their primary data sources by using modern like synchronization clients and mobile applications.…
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Department
- HEP Computing
- Taught by
- Richard Freitag, Gabriel Paues
- Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Computer science
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
- Who can watch
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