Comments on Illinois Wesleyan University’s Information Technology: planning and operations
Posted in Operations, future on Nov 9th, 2009
After two successful registration events, today’s event for the Sophomore class did not go as well as we planned for. About 5 minutes into the registration event the Luminis Platform (MyIWU) began having performance issues. At 7:55am the servers involved in the registration process were restarted in conjunction with some memory allocation adjustments to restore [...]
Posted in Operations, future on Oct 30th, 2009
Information Technology Services conducted two system tests with the help of the campus community to verify systems are working properly for registration that begins on November 2nd. Tuning and updates have been applied to systems involved with the registration process and the tests indicate all systems are functioning properly. Thanks to all who participated in [...]
Posted in future on Mar 1st, 2008
“What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone?”
That’s the question some in higher education are asking. Abilene Christian University recently announced plans to give all entering students an iPhone or iPod, and released a video showing how such devices might be used on campus (see excerpt [...]