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Support for data management projects involving Compute Storage, Data Collaboration, Data workflows, Data Backup and Data transfers.

Storage Options

Description: Enterprise Storage Solution 

Purpose

  • Big Data Storage Solution
  • Active Compute
  • Frequently Accessed Computed against
  • Shared within and outside of your department.
  • User managed permissions 

Storage Type: On-prem Tiered

Data Policy:

  • Confidential 1
  • Published 1
  • Controlled 1

Backup Available?: Yes

* As changes in University policies and state/federal regulations occur, this table may be revised. Please check this page occasionally to ensure you stay aware of the current guidelines.​
1 – See explanations for confidential, controlled, and published data in the Data Classification table below
2 – “Personal Work Data” are the day-to-day files you create and work with as part of your job that don’t fall into the confidential, controlled, or published data categories (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.)
3 – 1TB is the initial setup for UT OneDrive storage but this amount can be increased by request
4 – Departmental pricing is based on the volume of data stored
5​ – In compliance with PCI-DSS requirements ​​
6 – Applies to existing internal SharePoint sites only; requests for new sites will reside in Microsoft's Office 365 cloud​​
7 - Personnel must request an exemption to utilize Non University Acquired Cloud Services for storing/processing Non Confidential or Non Controlled data

Description: 

Isilon Leased mass storage is file storage for groups and/or individuals of data on a server that is managed and maintained by IMS and includes workstation set up and maintenance of user storage areas (includes group and individual shares). LMS covers basic file/print services only. Server based applications and layered product support must be requested and agreed to on a case-by-case basis and will incur an additional charge. IMS will ensure that the storage leased is backed up to tape on a routine basis. This includes off-site storage. Request for recovery of data from backup tapes will be at an additional charge after the number of recoveries indicated in the table below. Backup tapes are normally retained for one year. Longer retention times must be requested and agreed to on a case-by-case basis. There may be an additional charge for longer retention times.

Purpose

  • Frequently Accessed
  • Shared within and outside of your department
  • IMS managed permissions

Storage Type: On-prem Tiered

Data Policy:

  • Confidential 1
  • Published 1
  • Controlled 1

Backup Available?: Yes

* As changes in University policies and state/federal regulations occur, this table may be revised. Please check this page occasionally to ensure you stay aware of the current guidelines.​
1 – See explanations for confidential, controlled, and published data in the Data Classification table below
2 – “Personal Work Data” are the day-to-day files you create and work with as part of your job that don’t fall into the confidential, controlled, or published data categories (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.)
3 – 1TB is the initial setup for UT OneDrive storage but this amount can be increased by request
4 – Departmental pricing is based on the volume of data stored
5​ – In compliance with PCI-DSS requirements ​​
6 – Applies to existing internal SharePoint sites only; requests for new sites will reside in Microsoft's Office 365 cloud​​
7 - Personnel must request an exemption to utilize Non University Acquired Cloud Services for storing/processing Non Confidential or Non Controlled data

Description: Microsoft Cloud storage platform

Purpose

Azure archive storage is designed for long-term archival of data that is not often accessed.

Storage Type: Cloud

Data Policy:

  • Confidential 7
  • Published 1
  • Controlled 1

Backup Available?: No

* As changes in University policies and state/federal regulations occur, this table may be revised. Please check this page occasionally to ensure you stay aware of the current guidelines.​
1 – See explanations for confidential, controlled, and published data in the Data Classification table below
2 – “Personal Work Data” are the day-to-day files you create and work with as part of your job that don’t fall into the confidential, controlled, or published data categories (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.)
3 – 1TB is the initial setup for UT OneDrive storage but this amount can be increased by request
4 – Departmental pricing is based on the volume of data stored
5​ – In compliance with PCI-DSS requirements ​​
6 – Applies to existing internal SharePoint sites only; requests for new sites will reside in Microsoft's Office 365 cloud​​
7 - Personnel must request an exemption to utilize Non University Acquired Cloud Services for storing/processing Non Confidential or Non Controlled data

Description: Microsoft Cloud storage platform 

Purpose

SharePoint is a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from any device.

More information on SharePoint can be found at Microsoft's website and our Getting Started with SharePoint article.

Storage Type: Cloud

Data Policy:

  • Confidential 7
  • Published 1
  • Controlled 1

Backup Available?: No

* As changes in University policies and state/federal regulations occur, this table may be revised. Please check this page occasionally to ensure you stay aware of the current guidelines.​
1 – See explanations for confidential, controlled, and published data in the Data Classification table below
2 – “Personal Work Data” are the day-to-day files you create and work with as part of your job that don’t fall into the confidential, controlled, or published data categories (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.)
3 – 1TB is the initial setup for UT OneDrive storage but this amount can be increased by request
4 – Departmental pricing is based on the volume of data stored
5​ – In compliance with PCI-DSS requirements ​​
6 – Applies to existing internal SharePoint sites only; requests for new sites will reside in Microsoft's Office 365 cloud​​
7 - Personnel must request an exemption to utilize Non University Acquired Cloud Services for storing/processing Non Confidential or Non Controlled data

Description: Microsoft Cloud storage platform 

Purpose

OneDrive for Business is an online service that provides resources for file storage, collaboration, and communication. It provides one place for all files including: photos, videos and documents.

Storage Type: Cloud

Data Policy:

  • Confidential 7
  • Published 1
  • Controlled 1

Backup Available?: No

* As changes in University policies and state/federal regulations occur, this table may be revised. Please check this page occasionally to ensure you stay aware of the current guidelines.​
1 – See explanations for confidential, controlled, and published data in the Data Classification table below
2 – “Personal Work Data” are the day-to-day files you create and work with as part of your job that don’t fall into the confidential, controlled, or published data categories (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.)
3 – 1TB is the initial setup for UT OneDrive storage but this amount can be increased by request
4 – Departmental pricing is based on the volume of data stored
5​ – In compliance with PCI-DSS requirements ​​
6 – Applies to existing internal SharePoint sites only; requests for new sites will reside in Microsoft's Office 365 cloud​​
7 - Personnel must request an exemption to utilize Non University Acquired Cloud Services for storing/processing Non Confidential or Non Controlled data

Description: 

Purpose

Share data within and outside of your department.

Storage Type: Cloud

Data Policy:

Backup Available?: No

* As changes in University policies and state/federal regulations occur, this table may be revised. Please check this page occasionally to ensure you stay aware of the current guidelines.​
1 – See explanations for confidential, controlled, and published data in the Data Classification table below
2 – “Personal Work Data” are the day-to-day files you create and work with as part of your job that don’t fall into the confidential, controlled, or published data categories (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.)
3 – 1TB is the initial setup for UT OneDrive storage but this amount can be increased by request
4 – Departmental pricing is based on the volume of data stored
5​ – In compliance with PCI-DSS requirements ​​
6 – Applies to existing internal SharePoint sites only; requests for new sites will reside in Microsoft's Office 365 cloud​​
7 - Personnel must request an exemption to utilize Non University Acquired Cloud Services for storing/processing Non Confidential or Non Controlled data

Data Classification

Big Compute Storage

servers

Big shared storage is managed by the department’s own staff. The storage can be mapped using NFS, CIFS share for Windows, Linux, Mac OS. The storage can be backed up or replicated to offsite for Disaster Recovery at an additional cost. Minimum purchase 1 TB and incremental 100 GB block. Departmental storage is billed on provisioned size of requested storage.

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Data Tiers

Backup & Restore

The requesting department must have a Service Partnership Agreement (SPA) with Enterprise System Operation for backup services. Any employee may submit a request, but it must be reviewed and approved by the appropriate business office before provisioning service. Refer to Service Partnership Agreement (SPA) for backup retention schedule.

Site Recovery Manager (SRM) with VMware replication includes annual planned and unplanned failovers, failback and testing.  VM replication policy with SRM of Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 4 hrs.  Refer to Service Partnership Agreement (SPA) for additional information.

Request Service

Virtual Server Disaster Recovery is available

The requesting department must have a Service Partnership Agreement (SPA) with Enterprise System Operation for backup services.  Any employee may submit a request, but it must be reviewed and approved by the appropriate business office before provisioning service.

Globus transfer service

globus

Globus provides a secure, unified interface to your research data.

With Globus, subscribers can move, share, & discover data via a single interface – whether your files live on a supercomputer, lab cluster, tape archive, public cloud or your laptop, you can manage this data from anywhere, using your existing identities, via just a web browser.​

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