Systems Management Services (SMS) at UIT provides server hosting and storage solutions for the academic, research and administrative needs of the York University Community. SMS operates and maintains a variety of servers and storage systems, including virtual servers, and cloud computing which are cost-effective and reliable.
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Overview:
Server Data Storage (SDS) is a set of services designed for use with servers in York’s central datacenter facilities, designed to balance performance, reliability and cost.
For most services, the level of performance and reliability are more than sufficient. Most University enterprise I.T. services are operated using these storage services.
SDS supports NFS connections, or may be provisioned to appear as a local disk to a virtual machine. SDS services are available with or without backups included.
**Please note custom storage solutions to meet the unique needs of research, instructional, and enterprise computing are also available. UIT will work with clients, vendors, and other York IT organizations to develop custom solutions that provide the desired level of performance, security and cost-effectiveness.
How do I access it?
Please submit a service request below:
Overview:
University Information Technology (UIT) offers a virtual server management service. Virtual server management provides you with a server to host a UIT managed and maintained Operating System on a UIT Managed hardware. You are provided access to the Server to maintain and support your application. As these servers resided on shared hardware while still providing the same high-performance capabilities of dedicated hardware, the cost savings are passed on to the user.
How do I access it?
The following can use this service, but the request needs to be made through your respective IT Service unit:
- Academic staff
- Faculty researchers
- Faculties
- Administrative units
- This service includes the Server Hosting service
- Complete and submit the Server Request Form
Overview:
University Information Technology (UIT) facilitates location of virtual or physical servers within the UIT datacenters located in the Steacie Datacenter. The datacenter facility offers a secure, air-conditioned environment with backup power provision.
How do I access it?
Server hosting is available to York faculty and instructors, academic researchers, administrative units, and York Faculties. Request server hosting using the Server Request Mach From Standard Server Request (yorku.ca)
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