The St. Petersburg Regional Data Center (SPRDAC), pronounced "spur-dak", is a USF St. Petersburg auxiliary that's responsible for providing computing and network services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It also serves to generate financial reserves to replace hardware within Campus Computing. SPRDAC consists of three groups: systems and network support, hardware repair and computer store. The SPRDAC systems and network group maintains numerous Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris servers. These servers provide the following services for the USFSP campus community:

• Email
• Domain name system (DNS)
• Web services
• Network printing
• File and network access (NAS) storage
• Network software
• Telephony, Voice over IP (VoIP) and Voicemail
• Keyless entry security
• Video surveillance
• (Trane) Energy management
• Cisco Clean Access
• Bomgar (Share My PC) remote administration
• McAfee VirusScan Policy Orchestrator
• Patchlink software update management
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Reverse 911
• PacketShaper 9500 Packeteer
• IronPort email and Web security appliances

STPnet, the campus network, is based on Ethernet technology. SPRDAC is responsible for monitoring, cabling and the future expansion or redevelopment of STPnet. The network, operating at speeds of up to 256 billion bits per second, has provided the infrastructure to transport vast amounts of data and media needed to position USF St. Petersburg as a major research institution and achieve its institutional goals.

The SPRDAC Computer Store was formed within the Office of Campus Computing as an authorized Dell PC reseller for all USF campuses and their respective student, faculty and staff. The SPRDAC Hardware Repair group provides warranty upgrade and repair services for the purchases made with the SPRDAC computer store.