Research Computing as a Service

Central Active Research Data Storage Service (CARDS)

Provision of CARDS support

CARDS is the University of Glasgow's active research data storage service for UofG staff and PGR students.

RCaaS and the Infrastructure & Cloud team offer centrally managed, enterprise-grade data storage services designed for use by research projects in progress where:

  • Your research data volumes are expected to exceed ~20GB and/or experience significant growth.
  • Your research data requires controlled access by multiple collaborators.
  • Your project requires reliable backup, resilience and long-term integrity.
  • Standard solutions such as OneDrive or SharePoint offer insufficient capacity or features.
  • More information about CARDS

Access to this service

Proposal stage:

  • Please get in touch with us at the proposal stage, when writing your research proposal, as we can help with estimating storage requirements and costs.

Following notification of award:

  • We can help you to agree on allocation and management of data storage.

Longer-term storage: please contact us no less than three months before the project end date to agree to the transition of your data to longer-term storage.

Request CARDS

Costs

Data storage will be charged based on an allocated volume of storage (£175 / TB / year).

  • A modest allocation (up to 1TB, backed up) will be available to projects at no cost.
  • For data that does not require backup, such as locally replicated data, we can offer a reduced charge of £100 / TB / year.