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Systems Staff Projects, Tasks and Initiatives - Summer 2007

What are the Systems staff busily working on in the basement of Hubbard? Most people know that Systems supports email and backs up our files. Others have heard the buzz about Bowdoin's HP Blades, VMWare and disaster recovery: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/080307-bowdoin-lmu.html http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/080307-university-disaster-recovery-project.html...

Posted on August 6, 2007 4:16 PM | Read More >>

Recovery of "The Microwave" Network File System

At 12:30PM Tuesday, June 26, one of the College's core network file systems, "The Microwave", experienced a critical failure. One of the eight storage arrays attached to the Microwave experienced a failure in its hard drive storage shelf. This caused...

Posted on June 27, 2007 4:06 PM | Read More >>

NERCOMP 2007 (Worcester, MA)

The Bowdoin contingent to NERCOMP was: Tim Antonowicz, Karl Fattig, Judy Montgomery, Rebecca Sandlin, and myself (Tina). Tim Antonowicz partnered with Clarkson University to talk about the importance of having development servers in higher ed and affording that through server...

Posted on March 22, 2007 4:50 PM | Read More >>

Tim on Server Consolidation at EDUCAUSE 2006

Tim Antonowicz spoke at EDUCAUSE's 2006 Annual Conference. In his session entitled "Server Consolidation: A Case Study in Success", he shares how Bowdoin has saved nearly $300,000 in hardware costs using HP Blades and VMWare. The recording is 35 minutes...

Posted on March 13, 2007 4:50 PM | Read More >>

Classrooms, Technology and Support

Sills 205, 207, 107, 109 and Hubbard 22 will be renovated and a number of other classrooms will have the technology upgraded this summer. The technology is improving but there are still classrooms that have older technology and continue to...

Posted on February 22, 2007 1:49 AM | Read More >>

Apple, OSX and the Mac Users at Bowdoin

Lately I have been hearing from faculty and some staff that IT does not care about Mac people. Some have even said they have given up all hope. This is so far from the truth that I decided to do...

Posted on February 22, 2007 12:03 AM | Read More >>

VoIP - The first of many messages...

IT was approved to do the VoIP project this summer. IT has been in talks with Ericcson, CISCO, PingTel and Avaya for over 12 months. We are getting very close to selecting the right company and vendor to partner with...

Posted on February 22, 2007 12:00 AM | Read More >>

IT Staffing Changes at Bowdoin College

Both Luree Horgan and Randy Pelliteer have left Bowdoin. Luree wanted to be closer to her family and Randy was looking to expand his role as a DBA. It is sad to see them go. I will really miss Luree...

Posted on February 21, 2007 11:41 PM | Read More >>

Daylight Savings Time

President George W. Bush signed the energy Policy Act of 2005 in August 2005. This decision moved the date the start date for Daylight Saving Time. Starting in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday in March and end...

Posted on February 21, 2007 11:35 PM | Read More >>

Common Sense & Creative Thinking -> Problem Solved

The arms of the world's tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs, state media and an aquarium official said Thursday. The dolphins got sick after nibbling on plastic from the edge...

Posted on December 14, 2006 6:29 PM | Read More >>