Dedicated Backup Networks – This month, ITS has spent efforts adding network addresses to servers for increasing backup performance. ITS has implemented a tiered network configuration where co-located servers can backup over one dedicated network, and ITS servers can be backed up over another. This maintains a high security model, by not exposing ITS servers to co-servers without a firewall with the exception of backup purposes. We have seen significant reliability and performance increases from this effort.
SMTP Life Cycle Replacement – ITS has been researching replacing the SMTP environment as they are due for life cycle replacement. ITS is going to replace the physical solaris systems with virtual redhat systems. Substantial progress was made this month in this space. We successfully get messages to send and recieve from the new SMTP servers. We are trying to finalize the configurations for auto-responder. We anticipate being able to test the configurations some time next week.
Restores – ITS has been responsible for a substantial amount of data restores this month. We were able to provide the backups as for back as we allow data to be retained within SLA time frames..