UT Self Service

ITS offers several storage solutions for different use cases. This article identifies the high-level features of each to help you determine which solution best meets your needs.

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Microsoft OneDrive

Future direction personal, team, and departmental disk service is a secure, highly available enterprise-scale data "storage" solution available to departments and individual faculty, students, and staff.

Individuals

All Outlook email users are provisioned with 1 TB storage capacity. This is known as your OneDrive. Documents are Private unless designated to be shared.

Teams and departments

SharePoint and Teams site folders support up to 25 TB. Your OneDrive client is able to connect to these drives as well, with permission based availability.

Features

Storage of up to 25 TB increments
Advanced granular date recovery abilities
Scalable : UT's future direction
Total control of your data with version recovery
Access from any device - Superior mobile capabilities
Mac support - Files On-Demand (Requires version of Mojave 10.14)
No VPN, SMB or WebDAV connections necessary
Offline access and file sync features
Single authentication source (Office 365)
Approved for storage of confidential data
And much, much more

Cost

$0.00/TB (Common Good service)

Help & Support

Get Started with OneDrive

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Austin Disk Services

Austin Disk Services is a secure, highly available enterprise-scale file server solution available to departments and individual faculty, students, and staff.

Features

Connectivity via SMB with encryption for data in transit.
Connectivity via WebDAV and SFTP on all operating systems
Approved for storage of confidential data
Windows file server solution employing Active Directory-based permissions
Automatic backups with end-user recovery available

Cost

$1.40/GB per year. Data usage is billed monthly at the annual rate divided by 12.

Recommended Use

Store and share files with University users on multiple operating systems

Help & Support

Austin Disk Services Self Help
Local and Cloud Services Decision Matrix: Provided by UT Information Security Office.

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UTBox

UTBox is a campus-wide cloud storage solution that allows faculty, staff, and students at the University of Texas at Austin to use Box cloud-based file sharing for business and academic purposes.

Features

Accessible via Box Sync (Windows/Mac OS X) or web browser (all operating systems)
Approved for storage of Confidential data
Cloud storage solution
Collaboration options available for University and non-University individuals
Individual storage: 2 TB for faculty and staff, 150 GB for students
Departmental storage: Unlimited

Cost

UTBox is a Common Good service. Please see the UTBox wiki for details.

Recommended Uses

Upload files via a web browser and quickly collaborate with users across campus or outside the University
Use Box Sync to synchronize important files between your desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet

Help & Support

UTBox Self Help
Comparison of the security features of Cloud and UT Storage services: Provided by UT Information Security Office.

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Virtual Servers (UT-VMG)

UT Virtual Machine Gateway (UT-VMG) provides cost-effective, reliable, self-provisioned Virtual Machines (VM) based on the VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure suite and Aria Automation product. UT-VMG is intended to serve departments, colleges, and research units at The University of Texas at Austin.

Features

Virtual server based on the VMware vSphere infrastructure
Infrastructure housed in the University Data Center (UDC)
Customers retain responsibility for system administration of UT-V VMs
Storage: Tier 1 and Tier 2 storage available in 1 GB increments

Cost

$1.20/GB per year (Tier 1) or $0.40/GB per year (Tier 2), $0.40/GB per year (Backups - sum of provisioned Tier 1 and Tier 2), plus cost of compute (vCPU /memory).

Recommended Uses