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Data storage options

Cloud storage
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Microsoft OneDrive

UW provides students, staff, and faculty with 1 TB of cloud storage through Microsoft’s OneDrive. OneDrive is included in your Office 365 account and offers deep integration with other products you are likely using (Word, Outlook, ETC). More .

Eligibility: Benefited, non-benefited, student and special accounts are all eligible.

Cost:

  • Faculty, Staff, Students, and Individual Special Accounts - 1 TB Free. Additional .
  • Email Only, Department Special accounts and Retirees - 100 GB Free

Storage Limit: Microsoft OneDrive .

External Sharing: By default OneDrive users are allowed to share with external users.

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint is a website creation tool that can be used to securely store, organize, and share department information from any device. UW provides departments and approved organizations with 500 GB of cloud storage.

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Eligibility: All departments

Cost: Free - All storage increases are subject to availability of resources.

Storage Limit: Microsoft SharePoint .

External Sharing: By default SharePoint does not allow for external sharing. .

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that that can be used for chat, conferencing, and general workplace collaboration. UW provides eligible individuals the ability to create teams with up to 500 GB of cloud storage per team. More .

Eligibility: Benefited, non-benefited, student and special accounts are all eligible.

Cost: Free - All storage increases are subject to availability of resources. Additional space may be purchased

Storage Limit: Microsoft Teams .

External Sharing: By default Teams users are allowed to share with external users.

Network Storage
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Department Warehouse Shares

UW IT provides local CIFS/SMB and NFS shares for departmental use. Shares are available on campus or through the campus VPN1 and provide a local alternative to cloud storage.

Eligibility: Departments can shares and all storage increases are subject to availability of resources.

Cost: Departments are provided 5 GB of file storage for free. Additional storage can be purchased in 10GiB increments and pricing can be found here. Prices include nightly snapshots and off-campus replication for data protection.

Storage Limit: Please contact UW IT for questions regarding size limitations.

External Sharing: Warehouse users are not allowed to share with external users.

UW-Bulk Archive Shares

UW IT provides local CIFS/SMB and NFS shares for local archive storage. Shares are available on campus or through the campus VPN1 and provide a local alternative to cloud storage.

Eligibility: Departments can shares and all storage increases are subject to availability of resources.

Cost: Storage can be purchased in 10GiB increments and pricing can be found here.

Storage Limit: Please contact UW IT for questions regarding size limitations.

External Sharing: UW-Bulk users are not allowed to share with external users.

Research Data Storage
the Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC)

Research Storage

ARCC provides research data storage for the campus community. More information can be found here. Access to GSuite for .

Extra details
1 Some accounts may be restricted from accessing Warehouse or UW-Bulk on the campus VPN.
Note that the storage listed above is the only storage supported by UW IT.
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