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Storage System

Notes

Limited To

Storage Size

Cost

Retained Backup

Allowed Data

Lehigh Dropbox

Pros: Paid Lehigh-Vetted Cloud Storage Vendor. 'Unlimited' storage for faculty, deleted files kept for 10yrs; 5 TB space for students. Kumo compatible.

Cons: Accessed via Web, Sync Client

Current Students, Faculty, Staff

Large

-

10 Yr.

II,III,IV

Lehigh Google Drive

Easy to use, limited feature set

Pros: Lehigh user lookup, URL for every doc., folder, sharable outside Lehigh, Kumo compatible.

Cons: Access via browser or sync client (Mac/Windows)

Lehigh Accounts

Large

-

-

II,III,IV

Lehigh Microsoft OneDrive

Pros: Integrates well with MS Office software.  Kumo compatible.

Cons: Access via browser or sync client

Lehigh Accounts

Medium

-

-

II,III,IV

Zoom

Video conferencing and recording tool. Optional cloud storage for conference recordings.

-

Small

-

Yes

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 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

Ensemble

Structured Storage and Streaming service for non-commercial videos. Access via web only

Faculty, Staff

Medium

-

Yes

III,IV

Qualtrics

Survey Data collection system. Access via web.

Faculty, Staff

Small

-

Yes

II,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

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