Cloud File Storage Options
Lehigh users have access to numerous storage services in the cloud, and the table below describes them.
Storage System | Notes | |||||
Paid, Lehigh-Vetted Cloud Storage Vendor. 'Unlimited' storage for faculty, deleted files kept for 10yrs; 5 TB space for students. Kumo compatible. | Current Students, Faculty, Staff | Large | - | 10 Yr. | I,II,III,IV | |
Lehigh user lookup, URL for every doc., folder, sharable outside Lehigh, Kumo compatible. Limited free storage. | Lehigh Accounts | Medium | - | - | II,III,IV | |
Integrates well with MS Office software. Kumo compatible. | Lehigh Accounts | Medium | - | - | II,III,IV | |
Secure Research Cloud | AWS hosted secure cloud storage area | Specific Accounts | Large | - | ||
Video conferencing tool. (120-day courtesy retention for recorded content) | - | - | No | III, IV | ||
Searchable database and flexible display platform for faculty, staff, and student electronic portfolios. Also provides collaborative, networking, and assessment tools. | - | Small | - | Yes | III, IV | |
Video recording, streaming, and content management system for uploading, managing and sharing video and audio files. Secure place for recorded lectures, flipped classroom videos, campus events. Has built-in video analytics, a web-based video editor, automatic encoding. | Faculty, Staff | Small | - | Yes | III,IV | |
Publishing platform for long-form, born-digital and media-rich scholarship. | - | Small | - | - | III,IV | |
Survey Data collection system. Access via web. | Faculty, Staff | Small | - | Yes | II,III,IV | |
Lehigh's curated institutional repository. May be an option for public-facing, web-presented, longterm dataset storage. | Lehigh accounts | Large | - | Yes | III,IV | |
Access only via Client Software. Backup Option -- Saves to Cloud storage. | Faculty, Staff | Medium | $90 / User / yr. | No | II,III,IV | |
Github | Structured revision control and source code management. Access via Web, Sync Client Not vetted by legal: choose an appropriate license that clearly specifies the rights granted to others and protects Lehigh University's copyright and intellectual property. | - | Small | Public: Free Private: Tiered Fee | Yes | IV |
Bitbucket | Not recommended - not vetted | IV | ||||
Evernote | Not recommended - not vetted | IV | ||||
Personal DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. | Not recommended - non-Lehigh contracted, non-managed | IV |
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