Data Center Services
Data Center Services operates and manages numerous servers that provide central network and administrative services for the University of Chicago. Data Center Services supports central University staff engaged in the areas of finance, human resources, telephone billing, library systems, alumni services and executive decision support. Support includes systems administration, data base administration, facilities and hardware planning, and production control services. The central server area is staffed seven days per week, twenty-four hours per day.
The Data Center Services includes an IBM z/9 BC (Business Class) mainframe and a couple hundred AIX, Unix, Solaris, and Windows 2003 servers with 1 to 4 processors apiece for administrative services. In addition the Data Center supports a large scale TSM backup configuration and two IBM SAN devices collectively accounting for more than several hundred TB of both disk and tape storage. Taken together, these machines serve upwards of 600 administrative staff directly, and numerous others through the services they provide to faculty, staff, students and other organizations such as the Library, Oriental Institute, Smart Museum, Facilities Services, etc.
Last updated: 6/5/08