Chad DeGuira
(ORNL)
12/05/2008, 11:00
Presentation
Deploying an operating system to a single computer occurs many times in its lifetime. The processes to do so can be time consuming, requiring significant technical knowledge. Deployment integration, built in to any business model, streamlines operations, standardizes settings, improves productivity, and decreases support costs significantly. Today, deployment is more than putting an image...
Dan Pulsifer
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12/05/2008, 11:45
The Software Distribution site is a Web-based software and license management system developed through a collaboration between the IT and Engineering Divisions. This system enables end-users to download free software as well as purchase licenses for common applications, transfer licenses among co-workers or workstations, and track their own licenses for historical purposes. This is done...
James McDonald
(Sandia National Labs)
12/05/2008, 13:30
Collaboration Tools
Windows streaming applications offer the promise of making user’s environment more portable and robust. With this promise in mind Sandia started a small project to test Streaming Applications. The two primary technologies tested were App Stream and Soft Grid from Microsoft. The presentation will talk about features, implementation, lessons learned and overall impression with the products.
Tina Overby
(ORNL)
12/05/2008, 14:15
Presentation
IT University was initially created to help the Information Technology Services Division staff learn the new Microsoft technologies that were soon to be offered to ORNL. IT University had some success with the training by offering one hour lunch and learns as well as creating a SharePoint site with numerous web resources. While this was a good start, there were some problems with the way the...
Clark Piercy
(ORNL)
12/05/2008, 15:30
Presentation
The Defense in Depth (DID) project has been underway at ORNL for over a year with many changes both technically and procedurally to the IT environment at ORNL. Several of those changes involved the Network infrastructure. This presentation will provide an update to a presentation made at NLIT 2007. It will focus on network level enhancements put in place to meet Network Segregation...
Andrew Gehring
(NREL)
12/05/2008, 16:15
Presentation
NREL has been using Lucent QIP as its IP management system for last ten years. Licensing costs, usability and manageability has long been an issue with the product. We are in the process of replacing the Lucent QIP system with an appliance-based IP management system from BlueCat Networks. BlueCat Networks developed this secure DNS and DHCP solution to solve several problems faced by today’s...