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Secure University Research Environment

A partnership between the Office of Research and Innovation and the Division of IT to give Virginia Tech researchers an accessible, scalable, administered space in the cloud for data storage and sharing, balancing security and compliance with user-friendly features that enable collaboration.

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The Virginia Tech Secure University Research Environment (VT SURE) will be a centrally supported and managed data lab designed to advance Virginia Tech research capabilities. The resource is being developed with the needs of researchers at the forefront, with the goal of understanding and meeting their diverse and unique needs and requirements both now and in the future. VT SURE will provide an elastic and scalable technical infrastructure that can be customized to meet diverse requirements for collaboration, security, storage, data analysis, and support; with a user interface that is easy to learn and customize.