An Update on Changes to the Penn+Box Service
Following up on the December 2021 announcement regarding the introduction of storage limits to Penn+Box, ISC in consultation with numerous stakeholders have made revisions to the storage limits previously announced. The new limits are described below and will only affect 0.2% of all PSOM faculty, staff, and students. ISC will also introduce a new deprovisioning and archiving process to ensure the removal of users who have left the University of Pennsylvania from the service.
New storage limits for PennBox accounts
Effective October 18, 2022, the storage limit for each PennBox user account will be set to 1 TB. For users who exceed this storage limit, upon review and on a case-by-case basis, a storage limit of 5 TB or 5TB+ will be offered at an additional cost starting in FY2023*.
*Storage costs will be determined by end of calendar year.
Process for periodic deprovisioning and archiving
Effective October 25, 2022, a new rolling account deprovisioning and archiving cadence, with a three-month account and twelve-month data management interval process, will be put into place. Accounts that are no longer active at Penn will be archived quarterly and purged after 12 months unless another Penn user contacts their LSP to request the data be transferred over.
More information can be found at the DART website.
Questions or concerns can be directed to the PMACS/DART Website’s Need Help page or your PMACS / DART SIO.