Lisa Boyce

lisa.boyce@mtsu.edu

Bud Fischer

Computer Science for CBAS

Open computer labs

KOM 252, 267, 350, 351, 360

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The KOM computer lab serves thousands of students each semester. Approx 100,000 sessions are logged yearly for 7500 students/800 sessions per day. We are requesting one powerful server to replace our SAN which failed recently and is out of warranty. All systems rely on this SAN. In the failure we lost two weeks of data. We are requesting a server to function as a backup for all systems and user data. We need two 50 amp circuits installed in our server room to support the UPS backups in order to run the UPS at full capacity. We currently have two KVMs, one failed and the other is short on cables. Currently we swap cables to each server for maintenance. We are requesting 8 cables to complete the set and one KVM to replace the failed KVM. We are requesting a new server as a replacement domain controller. The controller that manages all the computers in 5 labs and classroom computers was purchased in 2008 and has been out of warranty since 2012. We request one new server to replace a server 8 years old and 5 years out of warranty that provides remote access/storage capabilities to students. Both the 360 lab and the 267 lab are very long rooms, with whiteboards and projectors only in the front, making it very hard for students that are in the back of the room to see presentations. We are requesting Wacom monitors and flat panels to provide a better lab experience for students.