“Oh, wow, the IT department charges us $11,000 a month for data storage. Why don’t we put some data on cheaper storage? Mark, why don’t you look into that?” the principal investigator asks the postdoc who just joined the team.
There are thousands of similar discussions in research labs around the world, sometimes because there is pricing sticker shock and at other times because the IT department is asking to curb storage consumption through quotas. In some cases, there is a quick solution (“How hard can that be?”), but in many other cases, this leads to a real quagmire. Let’s follow Mark’s journey through this quagmire and propose a solution with the help of tools such as Starfish.
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