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Please complete the following <a href="https://ucsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1G0aAq2WfRsrDqC" title="https://ucsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1G0aAq2WfRsrDqC">
survey </a>whose purpose is to inform the UC Research Data Backup RFP. This will also be going out to all faculty. That communication and delivery method is being approached carefully and it should go out in the next few days.</div>
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However, We feel it's very important to get your (RITL's) input on this survey specifically. It should take about 7min. Please complete this when you can. <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We will leave the
survey open for a few mths but will take a working cut of the results in 3 weeks.</span></div>
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See below:</div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.295"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the aftermath of the 2020 UCSF ransomware attack, the system-wide
Cyber-Risk Governance Committee released a report with their “Recommendations to Protect UC’s Digital Research Data.” This report, fully endorsed by UC President Drake, included a recommendation that the system provides a scalable data backup service for all
UC researchers. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.295"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To that end, a Research Data Backup RFP committee including representatives
from the campuses and the medical centers has been assembled to define the scope and scale of the problem, and assess the range of available research data backup solutions. The committee is currently defining in-scope data as any “data used directly in support
of UC research,” which can include file-based data, databases, cloud-resident only-copy data, and data up to and including P4 level data. For source, the committee is again thinking broadly and considering in scope any device storing research data that connects
to a UC network or the Internet.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:1.295"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You have been asked to complete this survey so that the committee can
better understand the range of backup solutions currently in use across the system. It should take you about ten minutes to complete. The questions are focused on active research data; please respond as thoroughly as possible, but don’t stress over the details
– ballpark estimates are perfectly acceptable. If you have questions about the research data backup effort or these questions, please contact the RFP committee representative named in the email that directed you to the survey.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);">Chuck Forsyth</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);"> </span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);">Associate Director of Research Computing </span></i></p>
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