SDSC Sherlock homepage (web)
Citation
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Sherlock Cloud Services. “Take your research farther, faster.” Homepage, date not stated. https://sherlock.sdsc.edu/. Read 2026-11-09.
Bottom line
- Sherlock calls itself “a specialized IT services provider born out of academia” for regulated data. It is part of SDSC at UC San Diego.
- The page claims “$1.5M saved on building similar solutions in house” and 24 weeks saved to start projects. It offers “non-profit pricing” and names customers that include the UC Office of the President and City of Hope.
Background
The homepage gives the mission, two headline figures, five customer quotes and the three services: Cloud Services, Government Services and Data Management. SDSC Sherlock compliance (web) compares the three services. SDSC Sherlock Cloud services (web) describes the first one.
Key claims
- “Sherlock is a specialized IT services provider born out of academia. We empower you to respond rapidly to your regulated-data management efforts, and free you to pursue breakthrough discoveries and impact society.” (Cloud Solutions & Services)
- “$1.5M saved on building similar solutions in house” and “24wks time saved to start and operationalize projects”. (Our Mission)
- “Easily scale and augment your existing research-enabling technology services portfolio without giving up control.” (Unburden Your IT Team)
- A Director of Risk IT Services at the UC Office of the President: “The Sherlock team was able to seamlessly take our data and application infrastructure from an open environment to their secure environment in six months.” (Our Impact)
- A UC San Diego professor: “The project collected data from roughly 50,000 people and generated personalized and population-based models for continuous risk assessment” with data kept “to both HIPAA and CUI requirements”. (Our Impact)
- “Get up and running quickly with Sherlock non-profit pricing.” (Value)
- “Flexible agreements to meet your organizations needs, including grant proposal support” (Value)
Evidence and method
A marketing homepage of about 860 words. The two figures have no method or base. The customer quotes are the provider’s selection.
Limits
The page does not say how it computed the $1.5 million or the 24 weeks. It gives no prices. The “non-profit pricing” page was not downloaded.