The Backup and Recovery service safeguards customer data via CommVault through reliable and automated daily backups across diverse environments, including physical and virtual servers, Elastic Storage, cloud platforms and more. It ensures data can be restored in the event of ransomware, corruption, or loss, with recovery options available for up to 60 days. The service offers self-guided or assisted recovery options and provides access to enterprise-grade infrastructure supporting mission-critical systems.
Cloud Platform 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.
The Enterprise Storage service delivers high-performance, secure, and reliable storage for virtual and physical servers, supporting applications, databases, and operating systems. Primarily focused on virtual server infrastructure, it provides flexible, scalable, and efficient storage solutions. With robust hardware and seamless integration, the service ensures optimal performance and continuity for critical university IT workloads.
A step beyond file shares, File Services leverages elastic storage as an enterprise-class storage system with a growing set of feature tiers, producing the right price point for a variety of storage needs. It provides secure, scalable storage, which includes automatically captured recovery points.
The MSU Data Storage Finder (DSF) is a self-service, interactive tool that allows users to determine which storage services are most suitable for their needs. Different types of data require different modes of storage. Based on features needed and restrictions set in place for certain data, researchers will be able to choose a storage service accordingly.
Systems Hosting uses technology that makes one server appear to mimic multiple servers running at one time. This hosting is more efficient in server capacity, hardware, and energy usage.
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.
MSU IT Web Hosting offers MSU units and MSU-affiliated organizations the ability to put their websites online with an approved domain name of their choice. MSU IT manages the web hosting account setup and routine system tasks.