ANTICIPATING FUTURE TRENDS
in TECHNOLOGY
From the dawn of creation, mankind sought to utilize tools to make his work on Earth simpler and more meaningful. Tis synergistic relationship between technology and society continues to impact William Jessup University on a daily basis and in a variety of mediums.
Jessup’s multifaceted IT and Media Services departments are proactive and seamlessly succeeding to provide users with the best training and experience possible whether they are on campus or off. “One of our priorities is to ensure we have the infrastructure in place to meet increasing demands as the university continues to grow,” said Jessup’s Chief Information Officer, Judy Rentz.
Infrastructure Currently, all of Jessup’s classrooms allow users to be ready to present materials by accessing technology built into the rooms. Te university’s facilities are used for a variety of purposes and often used by organizations from the surrounding area.
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“We want people to have full access and be able to utilize our technology regardless of their device,” Rentz added. From podium computers with full hook-ups to Apple TVs, classrooms feature microphones and cameras for recording lecture capture.
Just last year, WJU’s IT department saw the need to upgrade its’ ten year-old datacenter infrastructure into a next generation datacenter delivering cloud-like economics and agility, but with the security and reliability of on-premise solutions.
Trough the Lord’s providence the IT team received help in the data center overhaul planning from SJCC alum, Lane Leverett (’97). Lane is a sales engineer for Nutanix and has been awarded the title of VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) #53. Tere are currently only 190 VCDX’s worldwide.
With Lane’s expertise, the IT department installed a Nutanix hyper-converged solution. Hyper-converged infrastructure combines compute and storage into a single x86-based server deployed in scale-out
clusters that intelligently expand, share resources and fail-over as needed. It reduces power, space, storage complexity and virtual server management complexity.
“We basically shrunk our footprint and reduced energy costs by over $11 thousand annually,” said System Administrator, Dan Dutcher. Te datacenter uses technologies and architectures that originated in large Internet and cloud companies, such as Google, Facebook and Amazon. Companies including the Department of Defense, EBay and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo are also utilizing Nutanix clusters.
Future areas of interest for IT continue to focus on business continuity and disaster preparedness and recovery initiatives.
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