Box today announces Institutional Storage, a purpose-built solution that gives higher education institutions a single, secure repository for research datasets, archives, administrative records, and other institution-owned datasets across campuses.
The new offering addresses mounting challenges institutions face managing increasing content volumes with costly, fragmented storage solutions that struggle to meet security and compliance requirements. Coupled with Box’s unlimited user-owned storage, Box Institutional Storage gives higher education institutions one platform for all unstructured data that exists across the campus.
Why Box Institutional Storage?
Box Institutional Storage consolidates research datasets, student records, multimedia assets, and administrative files into one secure repository. It eliminates storage silos, simplifies governance, and delivers enterprise-grade security and compliance (FERPA, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP High, and more).
Simple, transparent pricing: Pay per TB/month with no retrieval fees, no operations fees, and no hidden costs. Scale capacity in meaningful increments as your institution grows.
Intelligent Content Management: Automated retention and archiving, metadata-driven organization, and AI-powered classification keep content discoverable and reusable. This preserves research content, streamlines collaboration across campus, and frees your institution to focus on teaching, research, and student success.
What you can do
- Centralize research data: Store large-scale research projects, experimental outputs, and artifacts with controlled access for teams and collaborators
- Enable digital preservation: Consolidate content repositories outside individual accounts for simplified governance and lifecycle management
- Support custom integrations: Capture outputs from integrations, automated pipelines and apps built on Box Service accounts, separate from personal content
- Scale at your pace: Purchase storage in increments that match your growth
- Accelerate data ingestion: Buy higher ingestion speeds for specific service accounts when needed
Built for control and clarity
Institutional Storage keeps non-user-specific data centralized and separate from individual files. Platform account content remains isolated from managed user content, with granular controls that distinguish research, archives, and application data from user-owned files. Box’s industry-leading admin controls and service-account model give you complete access management, while Box AI makes content easier to discover, summarize, and reuse.
Get started
Contact Box to scope your Institutional Storage needs. We’ll help configure service accounts and guide your initial purchase. Learn more at Box for Education.
