Through virtualization, Marist College has harnessed 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?).