This article is so bad you can't even tell which grant out of many similar ones it probably is. About fifteen years ago, it was a problem for researchers of moving large data stores, and whether it's faster to do it with a network or with suitcases full of tapes. Who pays for the storage, where it's kept, and who is allowed to access it. These grants are usually denied, and so each group of researchers scrapes up their own little partial datastore and ships graduate students and postdocs back and forth from the uni to the Cern/DeSy/Fermilab/SLAC/wherever, sometimes with suitcases full of tapes on the return trips. I'm a little surprised that it's still a problem for them.