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We will be upgrading wiki.geant.org from the current version of Confluence Server to the current LTS version 8.5. During the maintenance window we expect that there will be an outage of 20 minutes.
Maintenance start time: 22/10/2024 16:00 UTC. Maintenance end time: 22/10/2024 18:00 UTC.
| DuraCloud | Box | Trusted Cloud Drive | NDS BADSS | Pithos+ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region/NREN | Internet2 | Internet2 | TERENA | PSNC | GRNET | ||
| Jurisdiction | USA | USA | EU | Poland | Greece | ||
| Back-end storage provider | Amazon S3 RackSpace SDSC | SAS-70 Type IIBox.net | Amazon S3 Local file system | HSM Disks | (Jclouds API planned) | PSNC | GRNET |
| Sync among back-endsend providers | yes | n/a | planned | Distributed back-ends | n/a | n/a | |
| Back-end storage technology | n/a | SAS-70 Type II | n/a | HSM Disks at 10 locations | SAN Local file system other adapters | ||
| Storage data format | blob store for any bitstream | file system like | file system like | file system like | block storage | ||
| Single filesize limit | 5 GB | 2 GB | 5 GB | no limit | |||
| User metadata inclusion | tagging | commenting | tagging | annotation | tagging | ||
| Service platform location | Amazon EC2 | Box.net | <service provider> | PSNC | GRNET | ||
| Metadata/Key store location | amazon EC2 | Box.net | <service provider> | PSNC | GRNET | ||
| Platform code | Open-source | Closed | Open-source | planned to open-source | Open-source | ||
| Code language | Java | n/a | Scala | C/C++ PHP Ajax (Java GUI planned) | Pithon | ||
| SSL client connection | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Data stored encrypted | Yes | No | Yes | on tape media | No | ||
| End-to-end encryption | No | No | No | planned | No | ||
| Access from web browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (planned to close) | Yes | ||
| Upload from web browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| Desktop client | Client side sync utility REST API | WebDAV | SFTP GridFTP WebDAV (FileSystem 4 Linux and 4 Windows with on-the-fly encryption and digests planned) | Windows Mac iOS REST API | |||
| Sharing | private, public | private, public, group | planned | inside profile (public planned) | private, public, group | ||
| Federated access | InCommon | InCommon | eduGAIN | planned | Shibboleth | ||
| Owner of storage back-end account | User | Box.net | <service provider> | PSNC | n/a | n/a | |
| Cost per annum 100 GB | |||||||
| Cost per annum 1 TB | 1157.59 EUR | 468 EUR | |||||
| Free storage | 5 GB | ||||||
| Comments | trial period until March 2013 |