Click here to receive your FREE subscription to Campus Technology
Features
Taking Preventive Action Against Performance Problems
9/1/2004
The success with GroupWise gave Walt Slazyk, Loyola’s Peoplesoft systems administrator, “the confidence to move forward with spring registration.” A second Redline E|X 3250 was installed in front of the university’s Peoplesoft 8 Web servers in March 2004, just weeks before the early April undergraduate registration for fall classes was to begin.
Fast Portal Access Regardless of Connection Speed
The Redline E|X 3250 brought several other key benefits. Previously Loyola’s WebLogic servers had performed data compression, which had led to server errors in some users’ Web browsers; once compression was offloaded onto the E|X 3250 (and turned off on the servers), those errors disappeared. Also, because of some graphics-heavy pages on the registration Web site, Slazyk had expected complaints about response time from those users with slow dial-up connections. But the anticipated gripes didn’t materialize.
Additionally, bandwidth usage for the applications was reduced resulting in significant cost savings. The Redline E|X 3250 has eliminated the need to purchase additional servers and provided a “safety net” for Loyola’s Peoplesoft deployment,” Sanders said. “Having fewer servers has saved us expensive software licensing fees. And the powerful load balancing capability has made server maintenance much easier. We can bring one server offline for maintenance, then put it back and take out another, with no interruption in service. And the E|X 3250 is easy to manage centrally through a Web interface.
Future plans call for the Redline units to be put to work accelerating two additional Web servers that host Loyola’s main public-facing Web pages.
Cite this Site
copy text (above) for proper citation
Recommended Reading
- Beck Technology Donates DProfiler to Colleges, Universities
Beck Technology recently announced that it will donate its DProfiler software platform to colleges and universities for use in construction-related coursework.
- Microsoft Adds Gen 4 Datacenters for Cloud Computing
Microsoft is initiating the fourth in a series of datacenter upgrades to enable its cloud computing services, according to a Microsoft blog post Tuesday. And, like everything else in the software world, being highly modular is a good thing.
- Can You Operate as a Virtual Being?
Now that we are conducting at least a part of our business of education virtually and often meeting in virtual environments, let's explore the really big question for academics in a Web 2.0 era...
- Columbia Center To Smooth Web Operations with Collaboration Suite
A college or university without a Web site is inconceivable today, but with every site comes the challenge of managing content. Some sort of automated system is a given, but how much should the site's content management system integrate with other aspects of the campus computing infrastructure?
- IBM's Pass It Along: Mapping Memes Toward A Learning Organization
How IBM's new release is following through on old challenges... big ones.
- North Idaho College To Provide Accessible Lecture Recordings for Disabled Students
North Idaho College will be implementing a new classroom capture system as part of an effort to provide accessible education to students with disabilities. The college will be using SpeakerBox from ClearSky Systems for the lecture capture program beginning in January 2009.
