Data Sharing & Preservation

The IA2 (Italian Astronomical Archives) Data Centre, in addition to management of the main INAF archives from ground-based telescopes, also provides the INAF community with Data Sharing and Long-Term Preservation services.

• Data Sharing: Collaborative Cloud storage available for all INAF employees and associates.
  
  
• Long-Term Preservation: Storage space dedicated to users or projects. In both cases, the activation of a dedicated personal account is required. It is possible to obtain storage resources through the biannual "INAF USC VIII - Call for Computing and archiving resources". It will also be possible to request "on-demand" storage resources providing an exhaustive Data Management Plan.

Any request (space increase, account activation or simple info) should be sent to: Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.t

Info:
The IA2 infrastructure currently have (for all projetcs)
1.5 PB of disk space on 3 separate stacks
2.5 PB of tape space (expandable to 8PB)

Please remember that:

• Storage: it is a place where data is simply placed to allow their subsequent use. The organization is given by the user who owns it, and where possible sharing with other users is possible
• Archive: it is the place where the data, in addition to being located, are also organized through the OAIS standard, and therefore searchable through dedicated interfaces.

• Fast storage: Reduced space and directly connected to the computing system
• "Middle term" storage: Storage on high-capacity rotary HDs with reduced I / O speeds
• "Long term" storage: Storage in the Tape Library whose access is asynchronous