It appears this morning that there have been a series of power cuts affecting large parts of Southampton, including various University campuses. Estates have had an army of electricians restoring power to buildings, and iSolutions have been bringing up our switches and networking equipment as soon as we can. Phones and networking equipment have been …
Monthly Archive: March 2013
Mar 09
E-Mail Service Upgrades
The University revolves around e-mail. It’s one of our most important and largest services, both in terms of number of users, and amount of hardware required to run it. It ties in to many systems, both within the University and externally, so it also one of our more complex systems. As mentioned in a previous …
Mar 08
Interesting Statistics
To start us off then, here are some interesting statistics that we recently gathered: Our data centre holds around 1500 servers, over half of which are virtual machines. Our primary filestore cluster holds over 126TB of data, of which 90TB is user files, 27TB is shared/resource data, and 7TB is backups. On an average week, …
Mar 08
Hello, World!
The purpose of this blog is for the operations and development teams within iSolutions to let everyone know what’s going on, what new things we’re working on, what we’re working on improving and to explain the cause of problems when things go wrong. We’ll be adding new posts periodically highlighting any interesting developments, information and …
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