ITS Highlights

Gmail and VUnetID For Life – On October 3 ITS successfully implemented VU Gmail and VUnetID for life. On that day, VU Gmail became the exclusive email service for undergrads at Vanderbilt University and VUmail legacy services for that group were completely decommissioned. VU Gmail provides an “@vanderbilt.edu” address and a Gmail account to students […]

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State of Medical Center Address Captured – On September 8th the 2009 State of the Medical Center address was streamed to hundreds of faculty and staff across campus. The live streaming, as watched from several locations around campus and off campus. Video and sound quality performed perfectly.  
Vanderbilt Student Government (VSG)  – Less than thirty-six hours […]

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ITS Tweets – VUITS Twitter account launched to offer technology news and information. Tweets include security alerts, new services, changes to services, and outage information. Follow us today and receive tweets on your mobile phone if you enable the text messaging feature. 
High Availability LDAP rollout – ITS deployed a new highly available LDAP service in […]

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Updated Vanderbilt Web Environment – ITS successfully completed a project to upgrade 9 enterprise web servers to the latest software. The project upgraded the web servers from PHP4 and MySQL4 to PHP5 and MySQL5. The upgrade touched 1015 web directories owned by groups throughout the Vanderbilt Community and now provides web site owners increased web tools […]

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Exchange Consolidation Project - ITS is managing a project to consolidate three email services into one at Vanderbilt. To learn more about the project, check out the podcast, the webpage (must have a VUnetID to view it), the twitter site, or the blog. 

Hill Data Center Expansion and Renovation - Work began on Phase 1 of the Hill Data […]

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Web Streaming Growth—For the first time, both the Undergraduate and Medical School commencement ceremonies were streamed live concurrently and also for the first time, both were delivered in the Flash format to allow for cross-platform compatibility.  These events wrapped up a week of streaming activities that included the final event of the 2008-2009 Thinking Out […]

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Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks – Completed Phase 1 of the initial move to 100 Oaks.  Since this phase began in January, we have moved or installed 1,123 phones.
Wireless Network Expanded – Provided expanded WiFi coverage based on a request from Vanderbilt Student Government (VSG). A total of 8 APs were deployed in Calhoun, Wilson, […]

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School of Medicine Match Day! – ITS Streaming Services coordinated a support effort to help assure successful video-streaming of the Med School’s Match Day event on Thursday 3/19, in which 4th-yead med school “seniors” learned where they will go to do their residencies after finishing med school.   The streaming event was produced by […]

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Voice Network Upgrade – The last weekend in February was marked with a major milestone and accomplishment for the Vanderbilt voice network. The hardware and software for the voice network were successfully upgraded with very minimal downtime. IP telephony services are fully available across all parts of the network; out-of-lifecycle hardware was replaced; […]

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10 G Circuit — Now 100% of Vanderbilt commercial internet and research traffic is routed on the new 10 Gigabit-per-second circuit activated Dec. 1. Limits of the circuit will be tested next. See the November posting for more information.
Promoting Science — The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is a program the […]

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