Network & Academic Computing Services
	SCC Meeting - May 9, 2001

Agenda NACS Enterprise Services Overview PC Hardware Purchases & Cooperative Opportunities PCs vs. California's Energy Crisis Meeting Minutes NACS Enterprise Services Overview John Ward, Enterprise Services Project Manager Summary: NACS' Enterprise Services project grew out of the E4E, EA and Orion systems, with a goal of moving beyond those systems' original scope and introduce new, modern services to the campus. Using redundant servers, scalable storage and leveraging the network, Enterprise Services has introduced new services to the baseline (IMAP, Webmail,semi-open SMTP), as well as new premium services such as CorporateTime. Higher quotas are being implemented for Academic Senate members,and may be for all staff as well; additional quota can be purchased for $5/month for 100MB. The topic of quotas generated a good deal of discussion. Romine: Instead of selling a higher limit, why not charge for overuse? Ward: That would be very difficult administratively, as we'd need a recharge number for all employees, up front. We want these services to be easy to use for everyone, and only implement the business of charging when necessary. Carlyle: What about a bulk purchase? Instead of buying 100MB for each faculty member ongoing, I'd like to buy, say, 10GB as a shared pool for all of them. Ward: Ultimately I'd like to get to a point where we don't have to apply quotas at all. In the meantime, the quota system on the Network Appliances we use is a per-user management system. I'll make that suggestion to the vendor. Carlyle: What about some way of warning a user when they're close to their quota limit? It's hard on a faculty member when they're emailing grant proposals on the deadline, and then they can't receive email because the quota kicked in. Ward: We've talked about doing that, and I think we will. John Ward asked the group to move their E4E users' POP clients to use the pop.uci.edu address, thereby assisting the service migration off the E4E hardware. Several indicated that they had been doing so whenever they have an occasion to touch a user's desk. Steve Carlyle asked if NACS could produce reports which indicated which users were still using the e4e.uci.edu server. John indicated that NACS could definitely do that, and promised to direct some programming effort toward that goal. [May 30 Update: Programming is underway - ATL] The group requested that NACS provide a list of possible future directions for Enterprise Services, so that they can provide ranked input. [This list was emailed to School Computing Supporters and The presentations slides have been posted to the web, and the original PowerPoint file can be downloaded as well. PC Hardware Purchases & Cooperative Opportunities The group discussed upcoming hardware purchase plans, with the hope of coordinating purchases and leverage quantity discounts. NACS will be purchasing about 50 lab PCs during Summer 2001. BioSci and Humanities also reported upcoming quantity purchases; all agreed to consult each other and investigate whether we can do a joint purchase. PCs vs. California's Energy Crisis The group took a brief look at the energy consumption of PC hardware. Andrew Laurence provided some elementary spreadsheet analysis, showing the university's energy costs for operating PCs in general, and specifically CRT monitors. [Andrew posted a summary to the UCICSCG listserv; the posting can be viewed via the list's web archive. The Excel spreadsheet can be downloaded as well.] Meeting Attendance Name Dept E-mail ANSEL, Kevin B. Housing kbansel@uci.edu BOYD, Robert Social Ecology rboyd@uci.edu BURKE, Ashley (for Diane BISOM) Library afburke@uci.edu CARLYLE, Steve Biological Sciences slcarlyl@uci.edu LAURENCE, Andrew NACS atlauren@uci.edu ROMINE, John Engineering jromine@uci.edu SU, Bernie Humanities bhsu@uci.edu WARD, John NACS jward@uci.edu WIEDEMAN, Lyle NACS wiedeman@uci.edu Return to SCC meetings page last modified 6/1/2001 Andrew Laurence nacs@uci.edu