Cloud File Storage Options

Lehigh users have access to numerous storage services in the cloud, and the table below describes them.

Storage System	Notes	Limited To	Storage Size	Cost	Retained Backup	Allowed Data
Lehigh Dropbox	Paid, Lehigh-Vetted Cloud Storage Vendor. 'Unlimited' storage for faculty, deleted files kept for 10yrs; 5 TB space for students. Cloud Mounter compatible for use in LUapps.	Current Students, Faculty, Staff	Large	-	10 Yr.	I,II,III,IV
Lehigh Google Drive	Lehigh user lookup, URL for every document and folder, sharable outside of Lehigh. Cloud Mounter compatible for use in LUapps. Limited free storage.	Lehigh Accounts	Medium	-	-	II,III,IV
Lehigh Microsoft OneDrive	Integrates well with MS Office software. Cloud Mounter compatible for use in LUapps.	Lehigh Accounts	Medium	-	-	II,III,IV
Secure Research Cloud	AWS hosted secure cloud storage area	Specific Accounts	Large	-		I,II,III,IV
Zoom	Video conferencing tool. (120-day courtesy retention for recorded content)	-	Info	-	No	III, IV
Mahara	Searchable database and flexible display platform for faculty, staff, and student electronic portfolios. Also provides collaborative, networking, and assessment tools.	-	Small	-	Yes	III, IV
Panopto	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
Scalar	Publishing platform for long-form, born-digital and media-rich scholarship.	-	Small	-	-	III,IV
Lehigh Preserve	Lehigh's curated institutional repository. May be an option for public-facing, web-presented, longterm dataset storage.	Lehigh accounts	Large	-	Yes	III,IV
Lehigh CrashPlan Backup	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
Personal DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Evernote, Bitbucket, etc.	Not recommended - non-Lehigh contracted, non-managed					IV