University of Southampton: Information Security Policy
Research SupportThe University of Southampton (UoS) is a one of the top research Universities in the UK. As such the University recognises the importance of proper management of the digital assets produced in the pursuit of knowledge. In support of this, iSolutions provides a secure research data storage service to the research community.
The purpose of this enhanced provision is to store active research data. It should be noted that research data should be deposited in an appropriate institutional repository, such as ePrints Soton, or disciplinary repository at the appropriate time after completion of the project.
The University also provides a number of other services related to the storage of electronic data and, as this information is subject to significant change, an up-to-date view can be seen on the iSolutions Filestore pages.
Important note: Personal Filestore (also known as My Documents) should not be used for research data. Talk to iSolutions if you require a secure storage location to store research data.
The University through iSolutions provides a secure enterprise scale coherent storage solution that is apportioned amongst the research community. The data stored within this facility is regularly backed up and a copy of the back-up, regularly off-sited to a secure location for disaster recovery purposes. The research data storage platform is solely for the storage of research data.
The allocation of this resource is a fixed baseline provision on a per Faculties basis. Faculty allocations are based on the following;
Research data within the service will be retained in accordance with the University of Southampton Research Data Management Policy
| Table 1: Enhanced Research Data Storage - Current Baseline Provision for Faculties(2014/15) | |
| Faculty |
Storage Allocation (Terabytes) |
| Business and Law | 60 |
| Engineering and the Environment | 260 |
| Health Sciences | 60 |
| Humanities | 100 |
| Medicine | 280 |
| Natural and Environmental Sciences | 200 |
| Physical Sciences and Engineering | 300 |
| Social and Human Sciences | 180 |
Where an appropriate management structure/ group exists within a Faculty, that group will authorise allocations of any proportion of the baseline provision. However where appropriate structures are not yet in place iSolutions via the Faculty Business Relationship Manager will be able to allocate up to 1 Tbyte of storage per valid request. A valid request is a one that originates from an academic member of staff of the faculty.
Faculties or individual academic members of staff who require allocations which cannot be satisfied by the baseline provision are able to purchase additional storage.
The research data storage can only be purchased in units of 1 Terabytes. The current cost is £868.39 per Terabyte (correct July 2014 - contact iSolutions to confirm current price).
Please contact your faculty Business Relationship Manager (BRM) for further information.
