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PROFILE. Sweet spot Regional campuses Community colleges 1,000-5,000 full time equivalents (FTEs) Budgets Major migrations to take place end of August Must get on calendar in April for June sign-off Fiscal year begins July 1. ENVIRONMENT.
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PROFILE • Sweet spot • Regional campuses • Community colleges • 1,000-5,000 full time equivalents (FTEs) • Budgets • Major migrations to take place end of August • Must get on calendar in April for June sign-off • Fiscal year begins July 1
ENVIRONMENT • Configuration: classrooms, dorms, labs, data centers • Infrastructure: • Cabletron • Migrating to Cisco for distance learning/VoIP • UNIX systems; mix of Windows NT, Novell • Internal Web servers hosting campus intranet; online curriculum; specialized applications • Oracle, SQL, Sybase • Rare to find Exchange as in-house email application
PAIN • User base is growing and becoming more demanding because of e-learning and other services • Wiring of dorms adds extra loads • Homework, class curriculums and other assignments on remote servers are accessed by students and faculty at all hours • High bandwidth utilization downloads such as: • Video clips • Music • Computer games Need to support 24x7 operations with 8am-6pm staff