Use the links below to access leading research support services.

• Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) provides high-speed, high-capacity internet to New Zealand academics, researchers and educators.
  
  Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN)
  
  
• BeSTGRID is a Tertiary Education Commission funded capability development project that sits on top of KAREN. BeSTGRID will deliver mechanisms, methods and tools that facilitate collaboration on shared information, sharing of computational resources and online visualisation of instruments and experiments.
  
  BeSTGRID
  
  
• EVO is a collaboration system that supports point-to-point and multipoint collaborative sessions.
  
  EVO
  How to set up EVO 
  
  
• Acquire or purchase Recommended equipment
  
  
• Advanced Video Conferencing & Collaboration NZ (AVCC)
  
  
• BeSTGRID Sakai-VRE is a Virtual Research Environment, supporting collegial collaboration and communication within the New Zealand scientific and research community.
  
  BeSTGRID Sakai-VRE
   
• BeSTGRID Data GRID holds over 100 terabytes of data storage for research data for New Zealand based research projects, the controlled sharing and management of large amounts of distributed data within New Zealand and around the world.
  
  BeSTGRID Data GRID
  

For more information, please refer to the contacts on the BeSTGRID website. If you need assistance, log a call with the Service Desk.