Name | Description | Cost | Capacity | Access & Collaboration | Data allowed | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Google Drive | Google Drive is an online file storage and sharing for collaborators in and out of Lehigh. Set up to sync with your local computer or mobile device for easy access and use. | Free for Lehigh users up to assigned quota. Additional storage can be purchased in 10TB blocks for $3600 per year (Does not include education discounts). | Quotas Faculty/Staff - 75 GB Students - 25GB Retirees - 15 GB Affiliates - 5 GB | Can include non-Lehigh users. Owner controls sharing options, including edit and view rights; file and folder level controls available. | Allowed: Public data. Sensitive/moderate risk data. Not Allowed: Confidential or restricted / high-risk data. FERPA-protected data. HIPAA-regulated data. Export-Controlled information. | |
Dropbox | Dropbox is a cloud-based file storage system that enables easy collaboration, file syncing, and sharing on any device. | Currently free to Lehigh | Quotas Faculty/Staff - unlimited Students - 5TB | Can include non-Lehigh users. Owner controls sharing options, including edit and view rights; file and folder level controls available. | Allowed: Public data. Sensitive/moderate risk data. FERPA-protected data. Not Allowed: Confidential or restricted / high risk data. HIPAA-regulated data. Export-Controlled information. | |
Lehigh Onedrive | Microsoft offers OneDrive cloud storage. It is a personal document library intended for storing and organizing your documents and other files. OneDrive is part of your Lehigh Office 365 account. When you use a web browser to access Lehigh OneDrive, you can create and edit Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, etc.) without actually having Office installed on your computer. | Free up to 5TB | All Lehigh users have a 5TB quota for Lehigh OneDrive. Within your Lehigh OneDrive space there is a limit of 20,000 files and/or folders. Individual file sizes can be up to 10GB in size. | You can access your Lehigh OneDrive files from anywhere. You can also choose to share files with others within the University. For sharing outside Lehigh, please submit a new help request explaining your usage requirement. | Allowed: Public data. Not Allowed: Sensitive / moderate risk data. Confidential or restricted / high risk data. FERPA-protected data. HIPAA-regulated data. Export-Controlled information. | |
Amazon S3 object storage | Amazon S3 is easy to use object storage, with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. Pay only for the storage you actually use, with no minimum fee and no setup cost. Amazon S3 offers a range of storage classes designed for different use cases, and configurable policies for managing your data throughout its lifecycle. | Up to $1000/TB/Year Cost dependent on storage class, replication, and other services used. | 5 TB file size limit. No overall limit (costs incurred). No practical limit to number of files. | Extensive control using AWS IAM (Identity and Acccess Management) and Lehigh Active Directory users and groups. | Allowed: Public data. Sensitive / moderate risk data. Allowed with special configuration: FERPA-protected data. Confidential or restricted / high risk data. HIPAA-regulated data. Contact LTS for more information and details if working with these types of data. | |
Health data warehouse storage in AWS | This environment is a highly secured environment that allows storage of data in all families of Amazon S3 to include Glacier Deep Archive. S3 is easy to use object storage, with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data. Pay only for the storage you actually use, with no minimum fee and no setup cost. Amazon S3 offers a range of storage classes designed for different use cases, and configurable policies for managing your data throughout its lifecycle. | Up to $1000/TB/Year Cost dependent on storage class, replication, and other services used. | 5 TB file size limit. No overall limit (costs incurred). No practical limit to the number of files. | Extensive control using AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) and Lehigh Active Directory users and groups. Access to this storage is tightly controlled and monitored. | Up to and including Class 1 data including HIPAA | |
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Ceph Project spaces are purchased in multiples of 1TB with a 5-year duration for $375/TB. |
Health data warehouse storage in AWS
Description:
This environment is a highly secured environment that allows storage of data in all families of Amazon S3 to include Glacier Deep Archive. S3 is easy to use object storage, with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data. Pay only for the storage you actually use, with no minimum fee and no setup cost. Amazon S3 offers a range of storage classes designed for different use cases, and configurable policies for managing your data throughout its lifecycle.
Cost:
Up to $1000/TB/Year
Cost dependent on storage class, replication, and other services used.
Capacity:
5 TB file size limit.
No overall limit (costs incurred).
No practical limit to number of files.
Access & Collaboration:
Extensive control using AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) and Lehigh Active Directory users and groups. Access to this storage is tightly controlled and monitored.
Data Allowed:
Up to and including Class 1 data including HIPAA
Contact: