Hosting Services

Through our affiliate, the  Harvard-MIT Data Center, we provide technology and infrastructure to support the internal efficiency of research teams. Our professional staff, equipment and tools can help you create a full-scale approach to information sharing and collaboration. We host web sites and email servers. We provide collaborative and communication services, such as file sharing, mailing lists, issue tracking, blogs, and wikis. Our popular IQSS Dataverse Network repository allows researchers to save and share their research data. In addition, our enterprise-level server room facility is available to physically host servers for individual faculty and research teams.

Collaborative Services

Collaborative Services

Our technology experts at the Harvard-MIT Data Center maintain a full suite of resources dedicated to the facilitation and simplification of group communication and outreach.

Whether your research team is in the same office or working from multiple, disparate locations, we can help you share files securely. Our storage infrastructure is designed to be accessed from personal computers.  We can also tailor our back-up schedule to meet your group's individual needs.  Where appropriate, we can offer additional protection so that your files are mirrored in our disaster recovery location.  

We also make our infrastructure accessible for groups interested in creating a unique identity.  We can host your project's web site.  We also have servers available to host your team email accounts.

Other project tools include issue tracking, blogs, and wikis. 

For more information on the full range of services, see HMDC's Collaborative Services.

Physical Hosting

Physical Hosting

Researchers sometimes require dedicated equipment to run their complex applications and analyses.  For most scientists, we can meet even large data storage and computing power needs through our Dataverse Network, Research Computing Environment and Cluster Computing tools.  In extreme cases, however, this may not be sufficient to meet your individual needs.

If you require your own personal equipment, our experts at the Harvard-MIT Data Center can help.  We have experience identifying the right hardware for the job, and can help you negotiate the lowest possible prices with the best warranties.  We can also host your servers in our enterprise-level data center. This facility featrues generator-backed redundant power, fire suppression, cooling, and keycard security. Services available include network storage, service monitoring, remote administration, and backups.

Research Data Hosting

Research Data Hosting

The Research Computing Environment (RCE) offers you an externally-hosted, secure location in which to store your research data. This tool enables you to access your data from any personal computer with an internet connection, and also supplies a user-friendly, graphical interface that comprises the persistent desktop environment.

Alternately, our powerful and popular IQSS Dataverse Network repository enables researchers to share and archive their research data once it is in its more final form.  This open source software created by IQSS gives you the ability to easily upload and permanently archive your data, while also allowing you to retail complete control over who may access your data, how it is cataloged and if or when it should be removed from circulation. In addition, the Dataverse Network has designed a system that lets other researchers find and cite your data, increasing scholarly recognition for your research. You upload the data and we store it, free of charge.