Data Storage and Data Transfer

Monash eResearch provides a number of storage and data transfer products to support researchers and research projects.

Research Data Storage

The following storage products are made available to researchers at Monash University by eResearch:

Market	Vault	Computational	Object	Archive

The Digital Research Capability Catalogue (DRCC) is a tool that will help you identify the correct classification of your data, and which storage offerings are suitable for your use case.

Application for RDS storage allocations is made through the Data Dashboard.

Detailed information about these products can be found here.

Research Data Transfer

Aspera

Aspera is a licensed commercial product that can be used to provide high-speed access to all or part of RDS Market or Vault collections. Transfer is performed through a web-browser plugin, and can be made available to Monash or external contacts.

FileSender

The AARNet-managed FileSender system can be used for ad-hoc transfers by anyone with AAF (Australian Access Federation) access, or via "vouchers" to external parties. Researchers upload data to FileSender, then the recipient downloads it from there.

Globus

Monash eResearch provides access to the Globus data management service, which allows users to transfer and share large datasets securely and efficiently. Globus provides access to existing storage allocations on the RDS Market and Vault systems.

Transfer Tool

An internally developed eResearch tool that provides a web frontend to perform direct storage-to-storage transfers using SFTP.