PROFILE Sweet spot Budgets 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
Need to support 24x7 operations with 8am-6pm staff 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