I concur that Globus is definitely not dead! We're transferring 10s to 100s of TB per month with it. Globus is continuing to maintain GridFTP for this purpose

I concur that Globus is definitely not dead! We're transferring 10s to 100s of TB per month with it. Globus is continuing to maintain GridFTP for this purpose, as part of Globus Connect Server and Globus Connect Personal, and it will happily saturate a multi-Gbps link. And personally, I'd like to see more people getting a Globus subscription. It's cost-effective when compared to tools like Aspera, and helps fund the development of Globus software and features.