UTech provides several cloud and on-premise (campus based) services for processing and storing research data. The following information has been prepared to publicize our service offerings and to provide guidance on their usage. For more information including how to subscribe to any of the services please contact the Research Computing team at rcci-support@case.edu or help@case.edu for 24 hour support.
UTech provides the following cloud storage services for free for all students, staff, and faculty. In addition to unlimited storage capacity, each service is web based, and offers both desktop and mobile clients to allow synchronization of content to all enabled devices. Cloud storage options are well suited for word documents, spreadsheets, and other files used by productivity applications. Larger multi-gigabyte files may also be stored, but will take time to upload and download due to their size.
Box Storage
Box (cwru.box.com) is a secure storage and file sharing platform hosted in the cloud that will enable you to store, edit, and share files securely. Box is the only approved cloud storage platform for storing restricted data in the cloud at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Box provides many application connectors, including Microsoft Office, that eliminate the need to share document revisions through attachments.
Google Drive
Google Drive (webdocs.case.edu) acts as a cloud storage solution where you can store and share files with ease. Google Drive is also where Google Docs and Google Sheets can be created. These are fully collaborative documents that, once created, can be shared and simultaneously edited with colleagues. Shared Drives are an additional feature of Google Drive that provides a shared space where teams can easily store, search, and access their files anywhere, from any device. Google Drive provides free storage, but can only be used to store internal and public data.
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft OneDrive (office.com) is a cloud storage service for individual work documents that are no longer needed by the university after your departure. Files saved to OneDrive can be accessed from all of your devices. Use it to share your documents and photos with colleagues.
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint (office.com) is a cloud document storage service for departments and teams. Share files, data, and resources securely with team members across PCs, Macs, and mobile devices. These files are retained by university after a team member's departure.
UTech provides the following on-premise storage services for sponsored faculty lab use. The services are aimed at providing an ecosystem of storage services that reflect the lifecycle of research projects and their scale. Due to being on on-premise, they offer higher levels of performance than cloud services, and can be scaled to handle the complex requirements of storing instrument data while serving compute processing job files simultaneously. With the exception of the Secure Research Environment (SRE), all storage services can only be used to store internal and public data.
Research Storage
The standard Research Storage (RS) service provides easy, reliable, and immediate access to research data from on-campus offices (as a mapped drive in Windows or an NFS mounted file system in Linux or OSX) as well as from the HPC cluster systems. All data is replicated between the two CWRU data centers to protect against a data center disaster and can be purchased in 1 TB increments. The system provides recovery from accidental file deletion through snapshots and maintains seven days worth of revisions.
Price: $180 per 1 TB of storage per year.
Research Dedicated Storage
Research Dedicated Storage (RDS) provides research labs dedicated storage capacity directly tied to the High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. Faculty may purchase servers from UTech in increments of 100 TBs or more. The storage servers are NFS mounted on the HPC login and compute nodes in the /mnt/rds/ folder. All administration activities are provided by UTech Research Computing. Research Dedicated Storage can only be used for internal and public data. The system provides recovery from accidental file deletion through snapshots and maintains seven days worth of revisions.
Price: Please contact Research Computing for more information.
Research Archive Storage
Research Archive Storage (RAS) provides the CWRU research community an option to store data that has long term value, though infrequently accessed. The system archives data generated from research activities and allows for convenient movement of large and diverse datasets into a UTech managed system.
Price: $200 per 5 TB for five years of capacity. Price subsidized to 25 TB per faculty member.
High Performance Computing Storage
High Performance Computing Storage is a reservable, fast, parallel storage systems that can be used to provide a more permanent location for data consumed and created on the High Performance Compute (HPC) Cluster. Faculty may purchase storage of increments of 1TB or more for use with the HPCC. This service is ideal for large data sets that are used for long running HPCC jobs that do not meet storage policies regarding storage quota allocations or scratch usage. The system provides recovery from accidental file deletion through snapshots and maintains seven days worth of revisions.
Price: $200 per 1 TB of storage per year.
Secure Research Environment
The Secure Research Environment (SRE) is a controlled environment and NIST SP 800-171 based security program. Restricted research data with sensitive content maybe stored and analyzed inside the environment.
Price: Please contact Research Computing for more information