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University of Michigan - AFS used by College of Engineering only. Enterprise users use CIFS for staff, faculty and students. CIFS is required for sensitive data. Enterprise users also use NFS.

The claim that AFS is used by COE only is a vast overstatement. Main campus forced COE to merge their cell into the central campus offering several years ago. That was after the central IT attempted to shut down the umich.edu cell and had the Faculty Senate block it. To this day every student, faculty and staff member is offered 10GB of "mfile" (aka AFS) storage. It is true that they do not promote the service but they do not have a central alternative for home directories.

Michigan also has a vast number of central services that are built on top of the AFS infrastructure that they do not know how to move. One service they have moved out of AFS successfully is personal user web space.

Dartmouth - AFS is research only. Will be announcing another file system for research shortly. The plan on moving the current AFS use case into enterprise-class NAS for mid and high performance needs and to cloud offerings such as Box or Onedrive. Enterprise Administrative and Academic file services currently use CIFS shares.

Dartmouth primarily uses AFS for its research computing and administration. There is much smaller visibility of AFS for home directories in the broader student / staff population. As a result, transitioning away from AFS is much easier for them than it is for NJIT,

CMU - AFS used by Academic and research. Enterprise uses mainstream alternatives, EG, 1 TB of Box.

CMU is currently in the process of consolidating system staff from CS and ECE into the Central ITS organization. One of the purposes of doing so is to ensure that the andrew.cmu.edu is properly supported by the academic staff that makes heavy use of it.

Consolidation of the multiple campus cells andrew (general-purpose), cs, ece, and sei (Software Engineering Institute) into one cell is a precondition for them to consider AuriStorFS.

University of Edinburgh - AFS used by School of Informatics. Enterprise users use 1 TB of Microsoft Onedrive per user.

Edinburgh has announced plans to shut down AFS because they are unwilling to spend money on it.

University of Notre Dame - AFS limited to Unix and Research. Enterprise Windows, MAC, Linux users use Netfile (NFS)

The nd.edu cell is the administrative cell. AuriStorFS still provide OpenAFS support for that cell.

The primary active user is the crc.nd.edu cell - Center for Research Computing.

Stanford - Faculty and Staff use CIFS.

Faculty and staff also use AFS heavily. AFS is the only storage on campus that is approved for high risk data.

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All of the security-related services at Stanford are dependent on the /afs namespace. The management that was responsible for canceling the purchase of AuriStorFS in August 2015 has been re-assigned. Probably after SLAC purchases an AuriStorFS contract and the current OpenAFS support agreement with SNA expires at the end of Sept 2016 Stanford will be re-opening discussions for purchasing AuriStorFS for the main campus.

The Libraries, Medical School, Business School and Computer Science are very heavy users.