Blogs Archive - February 2018

Shared experience: How one Globus customer’s experience might benefit your own work

February 22, 2018 | Lee Liming

More than just a convenient way to “fire and forget” your data transfers, using Globus gives you and your colleagues the benefit of our experience managing wide-area data transfers for thousands of researchers, including our customer-based code tweaks.

Second year of Globus Auth, by the numbers

February 15, 2018 | Mattias Lidman

This week we are happy to celebrate the second birthday of Globus Auth, our authentication and authorization platform.

Globus Auth now supports nearly 91,000 users from our 478 identity providers. With over 37,000 new users since last year, the number of users has grown at twice the rate it did last year. If you also include linked identities, the number rises to over 116,000 identities.

Storage Innovation Series: Making Tape Work – What You Need to Know

February 13, 2018 | Steve Tuecke

The venerable storage format, tape, is the topic of the fifth article in our Storage Innovation blog series. If you’re shocked by the mention of tape in a series about storage innovation, you may be pleasantly surprised by how far tape has evolved. In this post, I’ll cover the essentials that research organizations need to know about tape storage, and highlight some recent advances that make tape more attractive than ever.

Globus now supports secure, scalable search using custom metadata

February 6, 2018 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

I am pleased to announce that the Globus platform now supports search capabilities, providing a secure and scalable solution for research data discovery.