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INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT TIMELINE
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BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR R1
May 2021
June 2021
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
October 2021
November 2021
December 2021
January 2022
February 2022
March 2022
April 2022
May 2022
June 2022
July 2022
August 2022
September 2022
May 2021
2021 Summer Wireless Access Point (AP) Refresh
Over 500 cutting-edge access points June installed to replace existing hardware. 2021
In-House Telemanagement Solution Implementation: Phase 2 Removed Compco and replaced it with data coming from PeopleSoft. Evaluated several 3rd party solutions but wrote our own application resulting in significate cost savings.
July 2021
August 2021
Armorblox September
Implementation 2021
More aggressive spam filtering & adding warnings to suspicious email messages.
October 2021
NVIDIA SuperPod
Implementation 2021
November
Installl of NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD to transform high-performance computing at SMU.
NVIDIA SuperPod Onboarding
Research Network 100G Redesign & DR Implementation
VCDR: Cloud Disaster Recovery Proof of Concept
ManeFrame III RFP Signed
December 2021
Optimize Electrical in
Data Center for
Best Performance January
Duo 2FA Implementation 2022 for ManeFrame II
Two-factor authentication added to help February mance computing. 2022
March 2022
Moody Coliseum April Wireless Refresh 2022
Code 42 Migration Duo 2FA Universal
Microsoft 365
May 2022
Data Gateway
Enables real-time data for Power BI and improvements for
Prompt Implemented June Users are remembered across all Duo 2022
reporti
ng and analytics.
Netapp Disk Storage
two-factor authentication integrations.
July 2022
100G Internet Available
Using the new infrastructure, the August University can potentially send a terabyte 2022 in about a minute.
September 2022
Upgrade/Improvement
At the end of 2021, our disk storage demands had grown to the point where demand was about to eclipse supply. In the UDC, we added 200 TB of disk space, while in Plano, we increased storage capacity by 150 TB to keep up with the growing demand.
secure high-perfor
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