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The former storage infrastructure of Columbia College and its affiliated units was aging and in need of an upgrade. After thorough research and investigation, CCIT purchased and implemented a NetApp FAS2020 iSCSI storage system. This solution provides many benefits, including, but not limited to: new high-performing hardware; a SAN framework; a replacement of current shared and individual storage; improvements to the backup system; and snapshots for simple data recovery.

As a user of the College computing environment you may have not noticed immediate impact as the upgrade was mostly behind the scenes. However, every time you log into your desktop computers or access files on a shared network drive, you are using the NetApp FAS2020. Overall, this new system provides a strong foundation for our storage infrastructure.

If you have any feedback or questions, feel free to contact us.

We've taken all of our old productivity tips and FAQ's and rolled them into a searchable knowledge base so that our support articles are easier to use. You can find everything at our new Knowledge base page.

For all of you who don't like juggling windows while following instructions, you can make print-friendly versions of any of our articles. Just click the "Print this article" link in the upper left corner of any of our articles. This will automatically print out a paper-savvy version of the article, complete with an index of all links in the article at the bottom of the page.

Can you think of any support articles you'd like to see on our page? Email us your suggestion: ccit@columbia.edu.

A new Columbia College Web site is now live!  Some of the updates include:

• Newer, more modern design
• More intuitive site structure
• Updated content
• Better maintainability via a content management system
• New Columbia College Bulletin search tool
• Photo gallery features
• Integration with the Sundial events calendaring system
• Easy access to alumni address updates and other alumni tools, such as the directory and class notes
• Alumni class pages

CCIT has rebuilt its Web site in Drupal, the content management system everybody is talking about!