# Managing your private datasets

iMicrobe leverages the CyVerse Data Store for user data. CyVerse Data Store offers solutions to many contemporary data storage needs in the age of large, distributed, digital data. CyVerse's cloud-based data storage is optimized for large data, free to most scientific researchers, accessible through multiple interfaces, and leaves access control in the hands of the data owners. This policy describes the key features of the CyVerse Data Store as well as the obligations between CyVerse and its users, regarding any data whether private, shared, or public.&#x20;

The Data Store provides research scientists, research groups, and research organizations with private, shared, or public storage allocations primarily for use within the CyVerse cyberinfrastructure (CI). The CyVerse Data Commons houses public data within the Data Store for use by the research community either within or outside CyVerse CI. The Data Store offers reliable, secure storage for datasets of any size that are actively being used for both research and/or education purposes. Data and metadata in the Data Store are stored in a high-performance storage resource that has built-in redundancy and is continuously monitored for security and failure. Data in the Data Store are synchronously backed up at both the University of Arizona in Tucson and at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin. All users initially get 100GB of storage, but can request additional allocations through CyVerse. Private user data is stored in a user's home folder ( /iplant/home/$user, where $user is a CyVerse username), and are accessible in iMicrobe where files can be uploaded, deleted, shared, or modified. Users can share data that they own with other registered CyVerse users. \
