Through virtualization, Marist College has harnassed the power of
System Z to run a number of large applications such as; SunGard's
Banner ERP, Email, Sakai iLearn and hundreds more Virtual Linux
Machines.
The presentation will give an overview of System Z at Marist. The
presentation will focus on how IBM's Cognos Business Intelligence
has been used to support the Academic Initiative and is in the early
stages of being evaluated for use with our Banner implementation.
The presentation will include an in depth analysis of the z/Linux
environment: Cognos Software, Databases instances (Oracle/DB2),
Web Services and the Virtual Computing Lab(Intel). The presentation
will share issues encountered, how they were resolved and/or
what kind of workaround was used (can it be fully resolved?).