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Hello Some background More servers? More classrooms? More students? Thank you Agenda

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Who am I and why me? Technology:  Virtualisation solution architect for Dell in Ireland.  VMware, Xen and Hyper-V trained. Field experience:  B.Sc. Computer Science  PhD candidate still in progress  Lectured on the M.Sc. course  Java demonstrator  Grinds for UCD

Have you enough servers?  Institutions are challenged by:  Datacenter Sprawl; too much time and resources are spent to deploy, maintain, cool, and manage servers  Proliferation of many disparate platforms is causing increased complexity  Increased demand from undergraduate, post-graduate and research projects.

Have you enough servers?

Have you enough laboratories? Many institutions have dedicated laboratories or computer room which are dedicated to a course or class. They have good reasons for this too! This leads to:

What type of students do you have? Many institutions have expanded their offerings to facilitate the traditional (ILT) 9-5 student, the evening student and the remote student. How is that going for you and what does it mean? Moodle. Remote connectivity. Software.

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