This one of the main storage solutions offered to UCR faculty and researchers.

Cost: Free

Space Available: Unlimited, upload limit (570 GB/Day)

Accessibility: Windows, Mac/Apple, Web Browsers, Linux Command Line, Smart Phones and Integration with Open Science Framework.

More Info:

• Guide to using Google Drive   
• General Information & FAQ 
• How to install Google Drive on Managed Desktop 
• Storing/Sharing Files Saved in Google Drive (R' Docs)

This one of the main storage solutions offered to UCR faculty and researchers.

Cost: Free

Space Available: Unlimited, upload limit (570 GB/Day)

Accessibility: Windows, Mac/Apple, Web Browsers, Linux Command Line, Smart Phones and Integration with Open Science Framework.

This storage solution is used within the High-Performance Computing Center here on Campus and is the main research storage platform. It is a High-Speed Parallel files system connected to the Campus cluster via 56 GB/s Infiniband capable of expanding to 100's of PetaBytes in size.

Cost: $1000/10 TB/Year

Space Available: 100's of TBs

Accessibility: Windows, Mac/Apple, Web Browsers, Linux Command Line, Smart Phones, and Globus.

More Info:

• HPCC Storage Rates
• HPCC Storage Hardware 

Amazon - Simple Storage Service (S3)

Cost: ~$0.023/1 GB/Month - Pricing

Space Available: Unlimited

Accessibility: Windows, Mac/Apple, Web Browsers, Linux Command Line, all Smart Phones, Globus and Integration with Open Science Framework.

Primary ways to use this storage in your lab:

• AWS Storage Gateway
• AWS Snowcone
• AWS DataSync
• AWS Backup

Other Storage related resources:

• Content Delivery
  • Accelerate websites, APIs, and video content
• Database
  • Save time and cost by migrating to fully managed databases
• Data Lakes and Analytics
  • Comprehensive, secure, scalable, and cost-effective data lake and analytics solutions

R'Cloud, powered by Syncplicity, offers is an entirely on-premise file storage solution that was provided to all UCR Senate Faculty in addition to, and separate from, Google Drive.  This service is no longer recommended in favor of Google Drive, OneDrive, and AWS S3.

More Information:

• Accessing R'cloud
• Using R'Cloud
• General Information & FAQs

Syncplicity Support

For support using Syncplicity, such as a specific "How To" using Syncplicity, please visit the Syncplicity Support site or email their support team at: support@syncplicity.com.

If you need further assistance in accessing your account, or for more information on data types, data security, data storage locations, please contact the ITS Helpdesk at (951) 827 – 3555 or via email at helpdesk@ucr.edu.

All R'Cloud users must adhere to the Electronic Communications Policy.

UCSD Data storage selector

Explore options for research data storage hosted by UC San Diego.

https://researchdata.ucsd.edu/finder

Data Security Plan Template for use at UCR.

• UCR Data Security Plan Template

Protection Level Classification of Information and IT Resources at UC's established by UCOP

• Protection Level classifications

Cloud Services Protection Level Handout

• Cloud Services Protection Level Handout

HPCC

• The recommended resource on campus for most computational research workflows.
• It can accommodate up to and including P3 data security controls.
• Up to and including P3 data can be used here.
• Rates found on the HPCC Website.
• It can be mounted and used on Linux.
• Accessible both inside and outside of HPCC.
• Inside HPCC access is very high speed via Infiniband/GPFS and very suitable for computational I/O.
• Outside access via SSH or SFTP is not suitable for computational I/O.

Cloud

• There are many choices here.
• Cloud can accommodate up to and including P4 data as long as all security controls are in place.
• Can be mounted and used on Linux and Windows machines
• Can also be accessed a number of other ways, some of which (AWS namely) can provide a range of additional compute options. Including on-demand HPC clusters.
• Access speed can be an issue for Linux and Windows mounts for Google Drive and MS OneDrive may not be appropriate for computational I/O. AWS S3 performs well outside of AWS datacenters and very fast within AWS itself.
• UC has multiple agreements with AWS, Azure, and Google to lower costs.
• UC AWS Enterprise Agreement (EA) and HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA)
• UC Cloud Contract and Guidance
• UCR Cloud Services Protection Level Handout
• CloudBank is another resource to lower cloud costs for researchers.
• We can work with you to develop a solution.
• A very large set of capabilities and computational resources available.

Sherlock

• Sherlock Cloud is a secure, multi-tenant, managed Cloud platform that meets the FISMA, HIPAA & NIST CUI requirements.
• This resource is a paid service.
• Run by San Diego Super Computer Center.

Department VM/File Share

• Up to and including P4 data can be used here if the VM and file share also meets P4 security controls
• It would have some cost.
• These can be mounted and used on Linux and Windows machines.
• Moderate access speeds may not be appropriate for computational I/O.

Workstation/Server

• It can accommodate up to and including P4 data as long as all security controls are in place.
• It can be a physical workstation/server or virtual machine as all security controls are in place.
• Workstations can access secure cloud storage.
• Workstations can also be provisioned in the cloud.
• It can be Windows or Linux.
• Up to and including P4 data can be used here if the workstation also meets P4 security controls.
• The attached workstation storage would have very fast I/O suitable for computation conducted on the workstation.
• The workstation can be a physical workstation or VM.
• Access to data from outside the workstation will be slow and not suitable for remote computational I/O.
• Remote GUI access is available via RDP, VNX or X11 Forwarding.