Build a distributed data ecosystem with Onedata for seamless collaboration

In a nutshell:
Onedata is a production-ready software for building distributed data ecosystems that unify storage, data services, and user workflows across institutional and geographical boundaries. It addresses the core challenges faced by modern research infrastructures: fragmented storage, inefficient data movement, lack of coherent access models, and limited support for collaborative, data-intensive workloads.

What Onedata enables for your infrastructure:
Onedata federates heterogeneous storage systems — local, remote, and external — into a single logical data space with consistent semantics. This allows institutions to expose robust data services without forcing users or applications to adapt to underlying infrastructure complexity.

With Onedata, you can:

• Integrate multiple storage backends into a unified namespace

• Support efficient data ingestion, caching, and on-demand transfers

• Enable safe simultaneous access and writes for parallel processing workflows

• Serve diverse user communities via POSIX, S3, REST, Python, and Web interfaces

• Implement data locality, replication, and QoS policies close to computation

• Offer collaborative workspaces spanning organizations and projects

Designed for EOSC-scale and beyond
Onedata is already used as a core data layer in large, federated environments such as EOSC Node Poland, EOSC DataCommons, and EGI DataHub, where it bridges distributed storage with analysis platforms and computing services. Its architecture is proven in multi-site, multi-tenant deployments operated by universities and national computing centres.

From infrastructure to service
Onedata allows IT teams to move from managing isolated storage systems to offering coherent data services: collaboration-ready workspaces, data lifecycle support, and integration with analytics, HPC, and cloud platforms — without locking users into a single access model or technology stack.

Learn more:
Watch the attached video or see http://hdl.handle.net/21.15131/pLrlicyt to learn how we realize a unified data layer in EOSC Node Poland, offering data integration, collaborative data sharing, metadata annotation, data discovery, archiving, and publishing. Visit our documentation for more: https://onedata.org/#/home/documentation

Collaboration and support
Our preferred model is collaboration within EU projects, but we also offer hands-on support and consulting for deployment, usage, and development of data access solutions. If you are looking for partnerships, ready-to-use solutions, support, or project collaboration, let’s have a talk and see where our interests align.