Information Technology News

IT Moves

The Audio Visual Division offices have moved from Main Hall to Burdick Hall Room 116. Please note the new location for future visits. The Audio Visual viewing room has moved from Main 003 to Burdick 205. The IT training room in Burdick has moved from Room 110 to Room 218. The video teleconferencing Room in Brewer-Hegeman has moved to Burdick 220.

AREON

AREON has finally arrived and we can now take advantage of the high speed networking services available from it. One of those is more available bandwidth for the commodity Internet. We have increased our available Internet band-width to 250mb.

HPC Cluster

The Callisto Cluster is now operational. The Callisto Cluster is UCAs first high performance computing (HPC) cluster, conceived and implemented with significant effort by Clarence Burg, Patrick Carmack, Sinan Kockara, R. B. Lenin, and Scott Meader.
http://www.uca.edu/callisto/

Network Upgrade

Network upgrade activity scheduled for the following locations within the next 30 days.
Main Hall, Bernard Hall, and McCastlain Hall.

IT Moves Student Email

IT plans to upgrade the student email system, discarding the current Net-mail system and moving students over to our established GroupWise system. The Netmail system has not been updated by the manufacturer in some time and the features provided by it are inadequate. The GroupWise web interface is superior, with significantly more features. The new system should also supply considerably more mail storage space to students. Besides providing a better service the change will eliminate some problems we have experienced with having separate email systems, such as conflicts with student workers who require a mailbox on both Netmail and GroupWise. Student worker GroupWise accounts need no longer expire at the end of each term, and students will be able to receive email at the @uca.edu domain.

Upcoming Events

GroupWise Calendaring, July 12, 10 a.m.

IT Maintenance Period , July 23, 4:30 p.m.

GroupWise Basics Class, Aug. 9, 1:30 p.m.

Sophos security Class, Aug 13, 1:30 p.m.

Network Maintenance, Aug. 20, 4 p.m.

GroupWise Calendaring , Sept. 6, 1:30 p.m.

Network maintenance, Sept. 17, 4 p.m.

Sophos Security Class . Oct. 8, 10 a.m.

GroupWise Basics , Oct. 11, 10 a.m.

GroupWise Calendaring. Nov. 8, 10 a.m.

Call the IT Helpdesk at 450-3107 if you would like to attend a training session.