Rice Enterprise Storage

Historically, Rice University did not have a centralized storage facility for electronic files (data, images, thesis and research material, etc.).  Students were given a small amount of space for email and file storage.  Faculty and staff members might store files on their hard drives or on departmental servers, or they might utilize other resources.

As part of Rice’s new high capacity network, the Office of the Vice Provost for Information Technology (IT), began offering a minimum of 1 GB in enterprise storage space to all Rice students and employees.

Now Rice faculty, staff and students can store their electronic files in a secure facility which is backed up every four hours.  This new storage warehouse is known around campus by different names.  IT staff members often call it by its electronic address: “storage.rice.edu” or simply storage.  Students refer to it as their home directory, their U: drive, or their Owlnet drive.  Department members may talk about their shared drive or just their “share.”

For more information about the storage facility and its certification, follow these links:

• Blue Arc diagram
• The Big Picture
• Certification
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• Obtaining and Using Electronic Storage at Rice