Data and information are available in ever larger quantities, and researchers face a distributed data explosion ... BiG Grid is now enabling researchers in the Netherlands to meet these challenges.
Detectors, medical imaging instruments, micro-arrays, and multi-sensor instruments are producing amounts of data that are rapidly exceeding the capacities of their current local data storage and computing environments. The revolution in digital archiving is bringing new challenges to data curation and persistency. Enabling the Dutch e-Science community to make the leap is what BiG Grid is all about.