The Digital Research Alliance of Canada is a national governmental organization supporting advanced research computing (services formerly provided by Compute Canada). They provide Compute Canada Nextcloud, an online file syncing and storage solution for all ARC users. The Nextcloud service is aimed at users with relatively small datasets.
Medium risk data must be manually encrypted before being uploaded to Compute Canada Nextcloud.
100 GB by default
No cost for users
n/a
Daily backup without offsite copy.
Simon Fraser University
Users can share files with other users, create and send password-protected public links, and let others upload files to the private cloud.
Researchers working with small data sets that need complex computational data analysis running on Alliance ARC systems can use Nextcloud as a more user friendly storage system.
Mark Hahn hahn@sharcnet.ca is locally based or visit the Alliance contact page
Nextcloud access is automatically provided to all Alliance ARC users, if you have a CCDB account you can login with it. If you do not have a CCDB account, faculty members at any Canadian University can make a CCDB account by following the instructions here. They can then sponsor research staff and graduate students accounts.
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Web portal, desktop syncing integration for Mac, Windows, and Linux as well as mobile apps for Android and iOS.