iRODS Consortium

iRODS is open source data management software used by research, commercial, and governmental organizations worldwide. iRODS is released as a production-level distribution aimed at deployment in mission critical environments. It virtualizes data heterogeneous storage resources, supports a metadata catalog for annotation, and includes a flexible policy engine which provides a programmatic surface into current or future infrastructure. This future-proof technology allows managers to guarantee and audit activity within a single logical namespace. iRODS has been deployed in thousands of locations, across industries as diverse as oil and gas, life sciences, physical sciences, archives and records management, and media and entertainment.