Tactical Clinical Trials Data Storage

• Service Group: Teaching, Learning and Research
• Users: Staff

Service Description 

The purpose of the Tactical Clinical Trials Data Storage service is to provide the Heart Centre, part of the William Harvey Research Institute, and other Institutes with a secure facility for the storage of electronic trial data together with a remote access capability. The facility, created by expanding the existing facilities of the Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), is expected to have a life of approximately two years. The service is intended to provide only a hosting service in which trials can operate their data management systems which can be created using a pre-defined set of software tools managed and supported by the BCI.

Standard Features:

• Secure Citrix portal combined with a two factor authentication service
• Secure access to Oracle databases and associated web technologies involved in day to day research activities
• QMCR SOE Desktop
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
• SQL Developer
• Tomcat
• Java Net Beans
• R Java Interface
• SSH Secure Shell
• 7-Zip
• Endnote

Optional Features:

• Stata
• SAS
• SPSS
• Microsoft Project
• Prism

How to access: Those who are eligible to receive the service are SMD staff involved in Clinical Trials.

Other applications on request from the BCI.

Cost

Standard Costs:
Initial set-up £6 per registered user
Maintenance and support £147 per registered user per annum
Data storage £0.34 (TBC) per GB of allocated storage per annum

These costs are subject to review by the BCI IT Team

Optional Costs: 
As advised by the BCI IT Team

Availability

Hours of Service: 24/7/365
Supported Monday to Friday 8am–6pm (excluding bank holidays and university closure days).

Support

Contact the Switchboard
Call: +44 (0)20 7882 5555

Dependent service

This service is dependent on Infrastructure Services