Technical Services and Support

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Technical Services and Support (OIT-TSS) supports the university community with technical architecture and university-wide computing services, including middleware solutions, backup services, Novell/Wintel support, UNIX support, mainframe support, database support, high performance computing (HPC) services, and data center services and support.

Director: Fran LoPresti, 301.405.7779 (tel)

 

Overview of New or Revised TSS Services

Service Offering Description and Target Customer Pricing Additional Information
Solaris/Linux Server Support This new service is targeted to campus users who need hardware, software, and monitoring support for their UNIX servers.

Target Customer: Individuals and departments needing 9x5 or 24x7 system support for their Glue servers.

9x5 - $1,500/year

24x7 - $3,000/year

www.oit.umd.edu/dcs
AFS File Sharing Service This new service is targeted to individuals and departments who need additional AFS network addressable central space over and above the free allocation of 1 GB. This is for additional storage offered in 50 GB chunks.

Target Customer: Individuals and departments requiring network-accessible storage over and above the 1 GB provided to all faculty, staff, and students.

$0.16/GB/month

Admin support $1,000/year

www.oit.umd.edu/dcs
Solaris Virtual Machines This new service offers virtual slices on OIT supported servers in the Sun Solaris environment only. The virtual slices are offered with full support and monitoring.

Target Customer: Individuals and departments looking for cost-effective hosting of applications requiring the Solaris operating system.

$72/CPU/year

$72/GB memory/year

Admin support $240/year

Set-up fee $120

www.oit.umd.edu/dcs
Database Support This new service is to offer hourly database consulting for Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL. Services include database health checks, upgrades or patches to database software, and database design review.

Target Customer: Individuals and departments needing database support for their Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server databases.

$60/hour www.oit.umd.edu/edbs
Basic Hosting for Web Services Web hosting is a service offered to campus to house Web pages in a robust, monitored environment. Based on an analysis of the algorithm, TSS is offering a price reduction for FY10.

Target Customer: Individuals and departments needing 9x5 or 24x7 system support for their Web site servers.

Basic service reduced from $600/year to $450/year

http://webhosting.umd.edu/
services/index.html

SSL Certificates Commercial certificates for Web sites are now offered for 1 year and 3 years. Expiration is monitored. 1 year - $200
3 years - $450
www.oit.umd.edu/wintel
Windows Server Service Support There is no change to this service. It is targeted to campus departments with Windows and Novell servers who need hardware, software, monitoring, and trouble resolution services. The service is offered with a 9x5 or 24x7 option. A per hour consulting service is also offered.

Target Customer: Individuals and departments needing hourly, 9x5, or 24x7 system support for their Microsoft Windows and/or Novell NetWare (non-LINUX) servers.

9x5 - $2,500/year

24x7 - $5,000/year

www.oit.umd.edu/wintel
Windows File Sharing Service This existing service offers DFS (Windows based) disk space to campus departments and ongoing account administration for departments without sufficient local disk space. The space is replicated for disaster recovery.

Target Customer: Colleges\departments\units requiring network-accessible storage (personal and shared) for faculty and staff.

$0.32/GB/month for replicated space

Admin support $1,000/year

www.oit.umd.edu/wintel
Backup/Archive Service This is an expansive existing service that provides incremental backup for servers and desktops on campus. There is a price reduction for FY10.

Target Customer: Individuals and departments needing backup or archive services for their data.

From $0.38/GB/month to $0.23/GB/month http://www.backups.umd.edu
SAN Storage Service This is an existing service for those departments who need high end disk storage. There is a price reduction for FY10.

Target Customer: Departments requiring data center server accessible storage.

Tier 2 $0.67/GB/month to $0.41/GB/month

Tier 3 $0.52/GB/month to $0.16/GB/month

www.oit.umd.edu/ess

 

 

 

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