The »German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure«, or in short »de.NBI«,
is a national research infrastructure providing bioinformatics services to users in
life sciences research, biomedicine and related fields. At five sites across Germany,
cloud sites were established to host the bioinformatics services. In Tübingen an
extension of the storage capabilites of the cloud was planned, implemented and
brought into production. We here report about the motivation, requirements,
design decisions and experiences which might serve as inspiration for other large
scale storage endeavours in the academic domain
