File and Data Storage Matrix
| On-Premise Solutions | Hybrid | Cloud Service Solutions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering IT Storage | Research Storage as a Service (RSaaS) | Taiga & Granite | Nightingale | Illinois Data Bank | Open Storage Network | Azure Storage (Microsoft) |
Amazon S3 (AWS) |
OneDrive for Business (Office 365) | U of I Box | Google Apps @ Illinois | |
| Service Information | EngrIT Storage or Server Hosting |
RSaaS | NCSA's Taiga & Granite |
NCSA's Nightingale |
Illinois Data Bank | The Open Storage Network | Introduction to Azure Storage | AWS @ Illinois | OneDrive for Business | U of I Box | Google Apps @ Illinois |
| Where to get help | engrit-help@illinois.edu | help@ncsa.illinois.edu | researchdata@library.illinois.edu | OSN's Slack Network | azure-support@illinois.edu | aws-support@illinois.edu | Tech Services Help Desk | ||||
| Amount of storage provided per person | $49/TB/Year | $56.04/TB/Year (Billed monthly, and chargeable to grants) |
Taiga: $30.48/TB/year Granite: $15.62/TB/year (External user pricing available) |
Nightingale:$10.54/TB/month | 2 TB/year | 1-50TB (Get an Allocation) | Azure has a pricing calculator available | Amazon S3 has tiered pricing for their storage | OneDrive at Illinois provides unlimited storage for individuals | Box at Illinois provides unlimited storage for individuals | Google Drive at Illinois provides unlimited storage for individuals |
| Amount of storage provided per team (group) | Storage allotments can scale based on needs of the research group | N/A | Determined by team that receives an allocation | Storage allotments can scale based on needs of the research group | OneDrive is part of Microsoft Teams and provides unlimited storage for teams | Box Shared Drive provides unlimited storage for teams | Google Team Drive provides unlimited storage for teams | ||||
| Maximum size for a single file | Dependent on OS and File System | N/A | Taiga has a 1TB per 1.5Million inode limit | N/A | 15 GB (can ingest via Box) |
5TB | Upper limit depends on the Azure solution, their Blob Storage has a file size limit of 200 TB | 5 TB (AWS Multipart Upload) |
10 GB maximum of 20,000 files per subfolder |
150 GB maximum of 15,000 files per subfolder |
5 TB maximum of 400,000 files per subfolder |
| Approved for storing FERPA data | COMPLIANT | COMPLIANT | COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT |
| Approved for storing HIPAA data | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | COMPLIANT FOLDERS ARE AVAILABLE | NOT COMPLIANT |
| Approved for storing CUI data | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT | NOT COMPLIANT |
| Web Access | N/A | Web access and file transfer available through Globus | N/A | OSN Portal | Microsoft Azure | AWS @ Illinois | OneDrive for Business | U of I Box | Google Drive | ||
| Mobile Access | N/A | Mobile access available through Globus | Responsive design works on most devices | 3rd party apps supporting S3 | Azure Mobile App | AWS Console Mobile App | OneDrive for Business app | Box Apps | Google Drive Mobile App | ||
| Desktop Access | Can be mounted to Operating Systems via NFS or SMB | API available | Cyberduck Download | Many storage solutions through Azure has ability to mount via NFS or SMB | Creating a File Share for S3 | OneDrive for Business Sync software | Download the Box Drive software from the Box website | Google Drive desktop software | |||
| Backup & Recovery | $53/TB/Year | RSaaS Disaster Recovery (DR) Service $3.00/TB/Year |
Disaster Recovery software available on request | N/A | N/A | Cloud services are often replicated to different sites; where those sites are located is worth consideration when working with sensitive data. | |||||