Space is a large-scale, high-performance digital storage system designed by researchers for researchers. It’s collaborative, cost-effective, and built to meet the demanding needs of the research community. With petabyte-scale capacity that continues to grow. Space offers fast, reliable, and secure storage for both active and archived data, ensuring your valuable research data is always protected.
Space is built in the University of Adelaide data centre using Hitachi Vantara VSP (virtual storage platform) cloud storage. Using Hitachi VSP to underpin storage brings benefits only available from the number one cloud, enterprise and government provider globally.
- No tape storage – lower latency
- Multiple level of redundancy – to ensure your data is available
- 24*7 monitoring with AI analysis- to replace components prior to failure
- Encryption at rest to ensure privacy
Space storage is managed using Mediaflux by Arcitecta, this provides a feature-rich set of highly secure capabilities, including:
- Secure data asset versioning, providing an additional layer of protection against accidental updates and ransomware
- Fine-grained permissions, if needed
- Daily usage data as well as long-term usage trends available in Intersect Dashboard
- Provides a simple path into the Idea product for self-service data storage management and advanced research data management capability
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