{"id":2767,"date":"2025-05-20T09:53:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/?page_id=2767"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:43:13","slug":"engnas-cost-recovery-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/services\/college-of-engineering-storage\/engnas-cost-recovery-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGNAS Cost Recovery Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 22, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Engineering IT&#8217;s Netapp Network File Storage environment is a 2PiB storage array that supports a wide array of services for the College of Engineering, such as Administrative, Course, and Research based data.<\/p>\n<p>The Netapp provides a secure, centrally-managed, storage environment.\u00a0 The service is protected via periodic snapshot on-site\u00a0and replication based backup stored in a secondary datacenter located in Holyoke, Ma.\u00a0 Using this service relieves departmental and lab administrators the responsibility, labor, and expense to physically administer and maintain a network file storage service.<\/p>\n<p>The Netapp is stored in the University&#8217;s secure, environmentally managed, and highly available datacenter and is monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via automated monitoring tools where Engineering IT staff is notified of any service issues.<\/p>\n<p>In a way to recover costs on some of the large research storage shares, in cooperation with the Dean&#8217;s Office and Grants Administration, we charge $20 per TB per year of storage for research shares over 20 Terabytes. <em><strong>*Areas with 20+TB prior to May 1, 2025 will not be charged retroactively.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Comparable services provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/infrastructure\/storage-backup\/network-file-storage\/\">Boston University IS&amp;T<\/a> cost $50 per Terabyte per year for anything greater than 1 terabyte.<\/p>\n<p>To provide the same service in the Amazon Web Service cloud as Engineering IT provides would cost $0.54 per Gigabyte per year plus the cost of a file server and would put the responsibility of data management and support on the department or lab.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, the cost of hosting 150 Terabytes per year\u00a0would be:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Engineering IT&#8217;s Netapp: 20+TB<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>150TB\u00a0 (-20TB) * $20\/TB = $2,600 p\/year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; Amazon Web Services<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$0.023\/GB per month for up to 50 TB * 12 Months = 50TB @ $13,800 p\/year<\/li>\n<li>$0.022\/GB per month for 51 &#8211; 450 TB * 12 Months = 150TB @ $39,600 p\/year<\/li>\n<li>$0.021\/GB per month for above 500 TB * 12 Months = 500TB @ $126,000 p\/year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; IS&amp;T General Purpose NAS: $50 per TB per year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>150TB (-1TB) * $50\/TB = $7,450 p\/year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 22, 2025 Engineering IT&#8217;s Netapp Network File Storage environment is a 2PiB storage array that supports a wide array of services for the College of Engineering, such as Administrative, Course, and Research based data. The Netapp provides a secure, centrally-managed, storage environment.\u00a0 The service is protected via periodic snapshot on-site\u00a0and replication based backup stored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1441,"featured_media":0,"parent":479,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2767\/revisions\/2882"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}