If you have been following the issues on how we have been doing to improve the Storage Management for Central Servers, we have mentioned the implementations of the SAN and EDM Backup solutions, and how they can help to improve our storage management. In this issue, we continue our discussion by ...

The Computing Services Centre (CSC) so far has received over 456 server registrations from 50 departments. The largest groups of servers are from MEEM, IS, and DCO having 111, 63 and 34 servers respectively. Apparently many of these servers in the academic departments are accessed by staff and ...

Phase 1 network upgrade was successfully completed in January 2002. In this phase a Gigabit network core was set up with full-redundant links between the core layer and distribution layer switches. Apart from that the network switches in most of the wiring closets on the 6/F and 7/F of the Academic ...

The number of security breaches in our university's computer network has significantly increased in recent years. In the last few months we experienced severe damages brought about by increasingly and highly advanced malicious attacks. The situation will worsen in the near future if we fail to step ...

In recent months, there is a significant increase in the number of virus attacks and hacking activities targeted at or originated from our campus network. During the trouble-shooting and investigations of these incidents, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) discovered that the network database ...

There was some good news for your students who own a notebook computer and a wireless LAN card! From mid-October 2001, just register their wireless LAN cards with the Computing Services Centre (CSC) and these students can easily connect their notebooks to the Campus Wireless LAN (WLAN) whenever and ...

In order to meet the increase in demand of Internet bandwidth of the local universities, the International Internet link (via EQUANT) of HARNET (Hong Kong Academic & Research Network) was upgraded from 48 Mbps to 72 Mbps on 18 July, 2001. The local ATM connections linking up the eight local ...

Last issue, we mentioned the acquisition of the Network Storage System (NSS) as the standard platform for central storage, and the Storage Area Network (SAN) is chosen as the NSS architecture for deployment. This issue, we will focus on the acquisition of a centralised backup solution (CBS) as ...

Today, servers across the LANs/WANs need to provide fast, reliable, ubiquitous access to data as required by various applications. In particular, mission-critical applications require data storage that can be operational all year round as well as can be expanded easily without interrupting any ...

Recently, tenders have been invited for a total network upgrade solution which includes a comprehensive network upgrade plan, plus the supply, installation, testing and commissioning of all the networking hardware and software required for the upgrade. After careful consideration, the tender finally ...