LONI’s Image and Data Archive (IDA) is a secure data archiving system. The IDA uses a robust infrastructure to provide researchers with a flexible and simple interface for de-identifying, searching, retrieving, converting, and disseminating their biomedical data. With thousands of investigators across the globe and more than 21 million data downloads to data, the IDA guarantees reliability with a fault-tolerant network comprising multiple switches, routers, and Internet connections to prevent system failure.