ITS offers several storage solutions that can fulfill a variety of use cases. This article identifies the high-level features of each to help determine which solution could best meet your needs.

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 2 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 (Cat1, HIPAA, FERPA, etc.)
• Migration solutions available from Box and Google 

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 (encryption in transit available via IPsec on Windows only)
• 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
• Individual storage: From 1 GB to 20 GB
• Departmental storage: 50 GB and up

Cost

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Recommended Uses

• Store and share files with University users on multiple operating systems
• Maintain a consistent user experience across Windows machines using redirected folders

Help & Support

• Austin Disk Services Self Help
• Austin Disk or UT Box?: This chart will help you decide which to use.
• Comparison of the security features of Cloud and UT Storage services: 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
• Austin Disk or UT Box?: This chart will help you decide which to use.
• 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 vRealize 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

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Recommended Uses

• Storage for departments where retaining responsibility for server administration is appropriate or required

Help & Support

• UT Virtual (UT-V) Self Help
• Comparison of the security features of Cloud and UT Storage services: Provided by UT Information Security Office.

Users of these services must be aware of and adhere to the University's Campus IT Policies.

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