Servers

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Servers

Server Consolidation: A Case Study in Success

October 10, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference

This session will present a case study in IT server consolidation that is occurring at Bowdoin College. Using HP Blades and VMWare, we have saved nearly $300,000 in hardware costs. This number has …

Leveraging SAN Technology for Disaster Recovery, Server Consolidation, and Information Life-Cycle Management

October 10, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference

Would you like to decrease disaster recovery time from weeks to hours? What is the value of shrinking your server hardware, cooling, and power by 50%? Are you backing up old data? East Carolina Uni…

Server and Storage Strategies

May 24, 2006 | A session at the Enterprise Technology Conference 2006

At the University of Minnesota, a three-tiered storage network provides production SAN and NAS storage for applications with a variety of availability, connectivity, and performance requirements. T…

Server Consolidation: Real People Saving Real Money

March 21, 2006 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2006

Facing datacenter space and resource constraints, Bowdoin College used new technology to meet current and future needs. Last year, we consolidated over 60 servers onto 9 VMWare hosts, created an ex…

Breathing New Life into Legacy Media Servers

January 11, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2006

This session will focus on the transformation of legacy media deployment servers such as Windows Media and Real Networks servers into content repositories capable of being indexed and syndicated. C…

Consolidating Assets and Building a Stable, Scalable Environment with Virtual Machines

February 16, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2005

The W. P. Carey School of Business has successfully used server virtualization to consolidate assets and create a stable, scalable environment for online MBA programs. A topology will be presented,…

Windows to WebDAV: A File Server Case Study

January 12, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2005

Migrating to open source servers provides opportunities and challenges. The rationale, migration strategy, and lessons learned in migrating a small department server from a Windows 2000 Active Dire…

An Open Network Printing Environment

October 21, 2004 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2004 Annual Conference

Managing the printing environment of university computing facilities is challenging. In addressing this issue, Columbia University's Academic Information Systems has developed a distributed ne…

Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Dealing with the Aftermath of a Major Server Crash

January 1, 2004

In November 2003, the server used for our university's course management system crashed, causing faculty to lose critical information. This presentation examines the causes of the crash, its r…