João Rosa, infrastructure manager at the National Scientific Computing Unit, reveals some of the most recent data regarding the service for sending and temporarily sharing large files provided by the National Scientific Computing Unit: "Currently, over 2TB of data is transferred via Filesender per month."
How can you describe the Filesender service?
Filesender is a secure solution for sending and temporarily sharing large files between users. It's a web application that allows authenticated users to send and temporarily store large files. User authentication is performed through the RCTSaai service.
To whom and in what situations can it be useful?
This service is intended for the community served by institutions connected to RCTS. The user's home institution must have RCTSaai federated authentication. However, file sharing is possible between a non-federated RCTSaai user and another user without any type of authentication (whether the latter is the recipient or the sender of the file). Currently, This is a very useful solution for those situations where the file you want to send is too large to be sent by email. It also has the additional advantage of being able to indicate several recipients, with the upload of the file is done only once.
Can you share some usage statistics?
Currently, they are transferred by Filesender more than 3000 files per month which corresponds on average to more than 2TB of data. These values only count the files that have been uploaded: downloading files will at least double the indicated values.
What is your vision for the future of this service? What are the next steps?
We've seen a gradual increase in Filesender usage, both in the number of distinct users and in their frequency of use. We will continue to invest in providing this service to the community, particularly in improving its quality, with a version update. software which we expect to occur this semester. On the other hand, we will also increase the resources of hardware that support the service, in order to better respond to the fact that Filesender is a service with a high demand.
