Two types of storage are available to research users at Cincinnati Children's:

• Institutionally supported enterprise storage maintained by the Department of Information Services
• Specialized storage maintained by BMI

Institutionally supported enterprise storage

Cincinnati Children's maintains institutionally supported storage for research. Researchers and support staff automatically receive 10 GB of personal storage space, which is institutionally provided for free. Each division also receives 100GB of shared space, charge-back free. Increases to these free quotas and additional project-based storage space are available at the following charge-back rates:

• $.50/GB/year for space without backup
• $1/GB/year for space with full (two-month) backup
• $2/GB/year for space with extended (one-year) backup

In additional to regular space, long-term archive space is available for $.50/GB/year.

For additional details, see our Research Data Storage page.

See also the transition schedule for each division from the old Celerra servers (G: and H: drives) to the new Research Data Storage servers.

For assistance, contact the BMI Help Desk.

Specialized storage maintained by BMI

BMI maintains storage systems that are specialized and don't fit into the first category. Examples might be server attached storage for database and other servers, storage in support of cluster computing, and storage with special requirements such as bandwidth and latency.

Current examples of specialized storage include the i2b2 Research Data Warehouse hosted on Oracle, storage for VMWare clusters, cluster scratch space, and home directories for DMZ LDAP accounts.

Please contact the BMI Help Desk if you need any kind of storage, and we'll be happy to work with you to create the proper setup.