100 GB to 1 TB

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform for communication and document storage , and how you use it is completely up to you. Some people use SharePoint only for data storage and management, and some people use SharePoint to communicate information and announcements across large audiences (like an internal website). 

Microsoft Teams allows you to share files created in Office 365 among your fellow collaborators. Everyone can stay up-to-date on the latest project status. Teams allows multiple people to edit documents simultaneously.

McMaster OneDrive is a file hosting service and synchronization service operated by Microsoft as part of its Office suite of software.

Medium and High risk data can be stored on the institutional OneDrive if it is manually encrypted. 

MacDrive is a customized McMaster version of Seafile, which is an open source EFSS (Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing) solution, similar to Dropbox.  It allows people and teams to store files on a central server and access them via a web interface or client on a device. These can be desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. All copies are automatically synchronized whenever one of the copies is modified. Files are easily accessible, and can be quickly and securely shared.

Encryption must be used for high risk data.

The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) is a National Data repository. Any researcher affiliated with a Canadian institution can deposit data into FRDR. The platform can efficiently ingest datasets of any size, and preservation processing is done automatically. Data professionals from the Portage Network and institutions across Canada work with researchers to curate and approve deposited items. FRDR also provides powerful functionality to search for Canadian research data. The search tool aggregates metadata from numerous repositories.
 

McMaster staff can work with you to distill your needs and find or build a solution that matches. Does your project have special ethical, legal, or commercial requirements? Are you working with an Indigenous community? Does your data need special security provisions? We can help to ensure your data is securely stored and backed up, and that all special requirements are met.

OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration.

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.

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada is a national governmental organization supporting advanced research computing (services formerly provided by Compute Canada). The Alliance provides researchers access to high performance computing. They also provide large amounts of storage for researchers. 

McMaster Dataverse a collection within Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository. McMaster Dataverse is our Institutional Data Repository, a place for researchers to share and archive their research data. Dataverse is an open source repository software developed at Harvard which provides secure access controls, licensing, version management, data citation, DOI minting, and more.