Thursday, December 8, 2011

Full Crew

I am pleased to announce the hire of Nathan Brake to our Programming Team.
Nathan will be our new Banner FIS/HR developer (CL1).  He begins in January and we are excited to have him.

With Nathan filling this long-vacant hole, and everyone back to full-time in January, I expect the New Year to be very productive.
We have many other projects to work on, but everyone is loaded for the break.

Also joining us lately (at DevTeam) have been Mary Ballard (LAS Dean's office) and Jeff Denton (TRI).  Having them there has been mutually beneficial, and I am looking forward to continued interaction with them.

New Channels!

Tonight I'm hoping to release some new channels to Portal.

The "Add Channels" button will change to denote if new channels have been released since the last time folks viewed them.  I'd also like to improve the look/feel of the interface, but just getting them out there is big progress :)

Tonight's release:
Advisor Information
Recent Gifts
Course & Program Requests

Friday, December 2, 2011

Security

This week we spent a large amount of time and energy thinking about NAC, ISE & security.
Cisco provides these technologies to us.  NAC was revolutionary and decreased our TCM (total cost of management) many-fold.  It gave access to clean machines, scanned the unknown and quarantined the dirty ones.
Powerful.  Customizable.  Consistent.

Yet, the world turns.  Technology advances, evolves.  And ISE breaks onto the scene.  NAC?  No problem.  Radius?  TACACS?  No problem.  Absolute flexibility and control?  Easy.  Unified interface.  And best of all - very "cheap" migration path from our existing NAC solution.  If only we had Cisco at the edge.  We'd already have it :)  So we work, tweak and design for the future.

The future is ISE.

The future is soon.

wouTV 2.0

http://www.wou.edu/woutv

It is OUT!  Why do you care?  Let me tell you.
Captions.
Class Lectures.
Upgraded video player.
Speed.

These are things you asked for.  And we delivered.  What's next for wouTV?  How 'bout ... HD?  Student submissions?  Who knows...  keep the suggestions coming --