Academic data storage includes student data, official University statistics, and strategic analytics.
- Short-term storage is for frequently accessed data with low latency requirements.
- Long-term storage is meant for rarely accessed data with flexible latency requirements.
Pricing varies based on: volume of data stored per month; data redundancy option selected; and quantity and types of operations performed, along with any data transfer costs. (Example: 3 TB, locally redundant storage, hot tier.)
Storage Tiers:
- Premium: Uses solid-state drives to provide high throughput and very fast response times. Low and consistent latency very fast response times.
- Hot: Data that are in active use or expected to be accessed frequently.
- Cool: Older media content not observed constantly anymore but is expected to be available quickly when accessed.
- Archive: archival data that needs to be stored for a long time and is hardly ever accessed.
Backup is a copy of production information which protects both your active and inactive data (all your production data). Your data still resides on the production storage systems themselves. Backups are meant for recovery from hardware failure or recent data corruption or loss. Backup data retention typically varies from 7 to 30 days.
Archiving is for space management, compliance, risk aversion, and long-term retention.
