Storage Finder

Storage provided in the Azure tenant of Maastricht University. Different storage types are available (blobs, disks, file shares, tables, queues). Cloud Foundation will guide you in choosing the correct type for your data. Several performance tiers are available, from extremely fast to very low costs for archived data.

Database hosting (DBaaS) offers a database for storing application data. Databases are hosted on ICTS’s shared, centralised server environment. Hardware and software are managed according to UM security guidelines, including regular software updates an …

DataverseNL, supported by the University Library, is a digital repository available to UM researchers, where one can publish or register research data during the research process and after its completion to make it discoverable, citable and accessible to future research (i.e. FAIR).

Ldot is a web-based tool for 1) storing participants’ personal and contact data, 2) safeguarding the study logistics and research protocol workflow and 3) communicating with participants, e.g. for electronic informed consent. By design, Ldot handles logistical data, but deliberately does not handle research data storage, integrating instead with external data systems.

The Maastricht Data Repository (MDR) is an in-house solution built on open-source technology for the long-term preservation of research data. It keeps data accessible, compliant, and reproducible for as long as it remains relevant.

Mediasite is Maastricht University’s video platform for recording lectures, uploading, managing, and safely sharing videos.

SURF Research Drive offers a lot of storage capacity for research data and facilitates collaboration with other institutions, industry, or international partners. Research Drive enables you to store and share your research data in an online environment, and synchronise it across diverse devices.

With SURFdrive, store, synchronise and share your files easily and securely in SURF’s community cloud. SURFdrive is the personal cloud storage service for Dutch education and research.

OneDrive for Business is part of Office 365 and is used for storing and sharing personal business files.

SharePoint offers an integrated collaboration environment for storing, sharing and editing files with multiple people simultaneously. It also enables you to create blogs, publish news and host your own SharePoint page using templates.

Teams offers an integrated collaboration environment for storing, sharing and editing files with multiple people simultaneously. You can also chat with colleagues and make use of additional tools such as UMployee and Microsoft Planner.

Managed File Services (MFS) or the “UM network drives” allow users to store data on a high-performance platform via network shares. The I-drive is a personal folder accessible only to the user. Files cannot be shared.

Managed File Services (MFS) or the “UM network drives” allow users to store data on a high-performance platform via network shares. The J-drive is intended for organisation-specific data. It is a shared folder at the faculty or department level.

Managed File Services (MFS) or the “UM network drives” allow users to store data on a high-performance platform via network shares. The K-drive is intended for application data. It is a shared folder at the faculty or department level.

Managed File Services (MFS) or the “UM network drives” allow users to store data on a high-performance platform via network shares. The L-drive is intended for project data. It is a shared folder at the faculty or department level.

Managed File Services (MFS) or the “UM network drives” allow users to store data on a high-performance platform via network shares. The N-drive is intended for education data. It is a shared folder at the faculty or department level.

Managed File Services (MFS) or the “UM network drives” allow users to store data on a high-performance platform via network shares. The P-drive is intended for storing research data. It is a shared folder at the faculty or department level.