BlueArc upgrade
ITS is planning an upgrade of the bluearc high perfomance NAS environemtn. ITS will be expanding the capabilities from 6oTB to 750TB usable. ITS is also architecting a backup soluetion for the new 750TB environment. This will encompass 4 bluearc contollers and 2 i2k with 18 drives each. This provides enough throughput to perform full backups once a month and incrementals once a week.
SMTP Replacement
ITS has been working to replace the SMTP infrastucture from physical Sun servers to virtual Linux servers. ITS has completed the development work required for this effort, and is now looking into the deployment process. This will allow time to re-architect our email solution without running into server issues due to hardware problems.