Provisioning, hosting, and administration of physical and virtual servers and related storage. Includes the maintenance and provisioning of core storage capabilities such as server storage and database backups.

Services (9)

Backup and Recovery

This service offers daily, automated backup jobs for physical and virtual Servers, Azure, AWS, Elastic Storage and more. The replication of data allows for restoration of files that have been corrupted and/or destroyed.

Cloud Hosting

Michigan State has a university-wide agreement for self-managed cloud services for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. These agreements provide the MSU community with discounted rates, enhanced security, and improved terms and conditions for faculty, staff, and departmental use.

These cloud services offer exceptional compute power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality for scalability and growth. Solutions include high reliability, low-cost, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) to fill a range of needs including basic servers, long-term data storage, mobile application development, and storing and analyzing large volumes of data.

Elastic Storage

Elastic Storage is a storage space created by MSU IT that provides users the ability to save, access and share files among designated users.

Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop grants authorized students, faculty, and staff seamless access to licensed university software and applications via a user-friendly online portal at vdi.msu.edu.

Virtual Server Hosting

IT Services provides Virtualization Services for the IT Services community as well as for other MSU Departments.