Service Description
Information Technology Services utilizes the VMWare ESX suite of products to support virtual infrastructure needs across the campus. The Systems team supports over 300 active virtual servers and nearly 1 Petabyte of active storage across multiple physical computing clusters. These systems support the learning, business, and research components of the University.
Information Technology Services uses IBM's Spectrum Protect (formerly TSM) product as its enterprise backup solution. The Systems group supports this suite of tools to ensure that critical University data is protected.
Every faculty and staff member has access to 5 gig bits of individual network storage on the H drive. H drives are created by request.
\\bushare.binghamton.edu\username$
Every department has access to 5 gig bits of storage. New shares can be created by request. Access to a departmental share drive must come from a supervisor.
\\bushare.binghamton.edu\departmentsharename
UShares are created for all registered students. When a student is no longer registered their UShare access and drive will be deleted. For graduating students there is a grace period of 6 months before their access is removed and the share is deleted. There is no longer the need to submit a UShare class request, but UShares for faculty are not created automatically. Faculty UShares can be created by request.
\\ushares.bu.binghamton.edu\username$
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Contact the ITS Help Desk at (607) 777-6420 or Submit a Request for additional assistance.