Campus Gets Long-Awaited Email Upgrades

The Office of Academic and Administrative Information Systems (OAAIS) responded to requests for larger email boxes with the recent upgrade of the Campus Exchange email system.

The upgrade included the complete replacement of the original 5-year-old hardware with a faster, larger system housed in the new campus data center. Exchange software was upgraded to the latest version and mailboxes for the system’s 12,000-plus users are now 10 times larger—1 gigabyte. 

In addition, a number of new features are available, including significant enhancements for those who access email via the web. The campus email system handles about 5,000,000 messages a month. For more information about the email upgrade project, go here.

After several years of planning and construction, OAAIS moved into a new data center near Mission Bay in March. UCSF’s investment in this data center is part of the University’s strategic plan to leverage information technology in service of the UCSF mission, and to provide the highest levels of protection for information resources.

The former data center, located on the Parnassus campus, had become severely cramped after two decades of occupancy, forcing OAAIS to limit its services due to space, power and cooling constraints.

The new location is on seismically stable ground and the building houses new network infrastructure, backup power systems, plenty of cooling capacity and room to offer computer hosting services to campus departments.

For more information on the new data center, go here.