Overview

Residing within the High Security Zone (HSZ), the Ivy secure computing environment is designed to fit your highly sensitive research computing needs and meets HIPAA, FERPA, CUI and ITAR compliance standards. Within the HSZ, researchers can store their highly sensitive research data in High-Security Research Standard Storage.

Ivy Central Storage

Ivy Central Storage (ICS) was an HSD parking zone and central storage pool with a capacity greater than 1PB. This storage space was available for researchers with highly sensitive data and could be mounted on an Ivy Virtual Machine.

As of 10/15/24, ICS will be upgraded to High-Security Research Standard Storage.

High-Security Research Standard Storage

High-Security Research Standard Storage is an HSD storage area within the HSZ with a capacity greater than 6PB. High-Security Research Standard Storage is similar to Research Standard Storage, however it is integrated with the High-Security Data Transfer Node and mounted on an Ivy virtual machine (VM) to create a highly secure environment. For added security, files stored on High-Security Research Standard Storage are read & write only. Note: snapshots, backup, and replication are not provided.

Researchers can request space on High-Security Research Standard Storage by first requesting an Ivy account using the Ivy request form. Researchers are granted 1TB of space at no-cost, and additional space can be requested in 1TB increments using our Storage Request form.

Data Transfer to Ivy

To ensure that files are always secure, data can only be transferred to Ivy through the High-Security Data Transfer Node using Globus Connect. Globus provides access to data on local machines and HSZ storage. Data can then be moved between HSZ storage as needed. Globus is well suited for transferring both small files and large amounts of data. More information on Globus data transfer can be found here.

Sensitive Storage Data Transfer High level Overview