Cyberinfrastructure Services
SDSC provides extensive resources for your technical research and educational needs, including storing public and private data collections, storing sensitive data that is secured to meet regulatory requirements, networking solutions, and hosting virtualized platforms, websites, and databases.
Cloud Storage & Compute
The SDSC Research Data Services team administers one of the first large-scale academic deployments of cloud storage in the world in addition to a complementary compute platform.
Colocation
SDSC offers rack colocation services to researchers who choose to purchase their own equipment. Our 19,000 sq. ft. climate-controlled and secure datacenter is fully equipped with 13 megawatts of power, 10-gigabit network connectivity, and a 24/7 operations staff. The service was designed in partnership with representatives from several UC campuses and the UC Office of the President, and is available to UC researchers through their campus representatives.
Compliance Solutions
The Sherlock Division provides compliance with regulations such as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), including compliance analysis, consulting and implementation for a wide variety of customers.
Cybersecurity Consulting
The SDSC Cybersecurity Group delivers a broad range of services in support of general computing, research, and data management, including assessment, detection, alerting, architecting and hardening.
Database Hosting
SDSC's WebDB group offers MySQL and PostgreSQL database hosting on a monthly recharge basis, along with related consulting and application development services. Please contact Services for information regarding other database platforms that may be available within SDSC's virtual machine environment.
Enterprise Networking
The Enterprise Network Service team offers expert consulting services and facilitates access to the San Diego Network Access Point (SD-NAP), a major network hub that connects SDSC systems to ISPs, Internet 2, and CENIC.
Managed Public Cloud Services
The Sherlock Division provides managed cloud services, offering turnkey solutions that span the entire data lifecycle pipeline including data ingestion & integration, storage, compute, and apps.
Research Data Consulting
The SDSC Research Data Services team leverages decades of technical experience and a wealth of UC institutional knowledge to provide expert administration and troubleshooting services within a fee-for-service model.
Storage: Backups (CommVault)
SDSC Research Data Services provides low-maintenance backup services in the form of CommVault, a robust backup solution with recharge assessed by storage use, as opposed to workstation licenses.
Storage: Project (NFS)
The SDSC Research Data Services team offers traditional Network File System storage as a service, which is often combined with the compute services at SDSC because of its ease of mounting and high connection speeds, making it the preferred storage choice of many researchers who work with Big Data.
Universal Scale Storage
The SDSC Research Data Services team offers large-scale high-performance storage cluster to campus users, members of the UC community, and UC affiliates. Universal Scale Storage is often combined with the compute services at SDSC because of its ease of mounting and high connection speed, making it the preferred storage choice of many researchers who work with Big Data.
UNIX & Windows System Administration
The SDSC Research Data Services team offers physical server administration as a service to SDSC datacenter colocation users. While the datacenter team provides basic hardware maintenance service, such as drive swaps, the team’s service includes advanced OS and software maintenance.
VMware Virtualization Hosting
The SDSC Research Data Services team provides virtual machines (VMs) to UC San Diego, members of the UC community, and UC affiliates. By taking advantage of the professionally curated VMware environment, users avoid the hassle of acquiring and maintaining physical servers while enjoying all the benefits of owning them.
Website Hosting
SDSC currently hosts over 70 websites on behalf of the UCSD community. The SDSC web hosting service provides a standard Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) environment and allows clients to run Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Drupal and WordPress, third-party applications like Jira and Confluence, as well as Tomcat-based services. Content and application design and development services are also offered.