About
Object storage – specifically the S3 protocol – has become a de-facto standard for storage integration. More and more of us are running S3 services, but they are still disjointed, non-interoperable, and scattered from both and admin and user perspective.
At the same time we are faced with more and more challenges when working with research data, from data sizes to legal and compliance requirements. Growing trends toward data sovereignty and in-house or community services also push the scaling and quality requirements of the object storage services to their limits.
Within the GÉANT GN5-2 project, we are developing a blueprint for a trusted pan-European storage infrastructure layer that provides a common, resilient foundation for research services. The goal is not to address higher-level data management directly, but to enable institutional and domain-specific services to build on an trusted object storage layer with consistent capabilities for metadata, policy enforcement, compliance, and sovereignty across borders.
A small group of sites who have been providing Ceph based S3 services for a long time has already started to work towards a more common approach of providing object storage services. We're in early days of the collaboration, but initial focus is on a operational convergence and uniformity. This includes the development of architectural blueprints for hardware and deployment that makes it possible to develop shared tooling. Achieving more uniform object storage services is the first step in the longer term goal of a Pan-European object storage service for the research community in Europe.
The Pan-European service will significantly raise the abstraction level of research storage. This stable foundational storage layer will be a building block for higher level data services and research collaborations. EFSS will likely be a pivotal services that institutions will want to deploy on top of this.
In this talk, we will go through the first steps towards…
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Taught by
- Bo Nygaard Bai, Kalle Happonen
- Year
- 2026
- 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.
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