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1. Higher Education Overbooked College Computer Labs Make the Grade magine 3 800 students competing for the use of 350 computers sprinkled across a vast college campus in eight different labs and you begin to understand the headaches that Leroy Sterner faced as Manager of User Services at York College In today s academic halls of higher learning if you don t have the computer power to compete you re not only going to quickly fall behind in class you re going to lose students and faculty When York College looked at its computer future in the new millenium it didn t like what it saw students faculty and administrators paralyzed by user induced IT trauma as they tried to share hundreds of computers among thousands of people The campus IT system was struggling to provide faster service to more users spread across a larger area If the growing problem of system down time wasn t addressed the liberal arts college would be faced with repercussions ranging from declining admissions applications to disgruntled tenured professors Once Sterner joined the rest of the world in breathing a collective sigh of relief that Y2K had passed uneventfully he realized he had another problem A campus filled with curious learning exploring young people creates a stimulating academic environment but it can simultaneously create havoc with high tech It wasn t lack of computer power that was hurting York it was the blissfully ignorant minds deleting a crit2. ical file here and there that continued to shut down computers on a daily basis With eight computer labs open and booked with near continual use 17 hours per day somebody was bound to make a mistake or two along the way The students weren t the only ones testing the IT department faculty and administration personnel experienced their own self induced paralysis For a professor nothing raises the stress level faster than when the IT guy appears at his office door with a screwdriver in hand five minutes before class starts and his lecture notes are inaccessible thanks to a frozen machine Challenge The critical cure for York College lay in finding a fast reliable and robust solution that provided relief for an overworked IT department quickly solved computer melt downs and prevented interruptions to the pursuit of higher learning York decided to put DataPort removable hard drive storage enclosures to the test and they re quite happy to report five years of consistent grade A results DataPort V DataPort DataPorts In Action DataPort V We simply couldn t compete with the demands of our administration without the DataPorts It effectively cut our down time to the bare minimum Leroy Sterner York College Solution Seer and his team knew that removable hard drives would allow them to quickly replace any system that had been corrupted by an innocent user After researching other competing brands they
3. n time to the bare minimum DataPorts also allow us to feature Smart Classrooms utilizing computers as a key learning tool integrated with audio visual systems Before DataPorts were on campus those Smart Classrooms usually required one of my IT people to babysit the lecture with a screwdriver and a mountain of patience Thankfully that scene will never be repeated About York College York College is a dynamic private liberal arts college community of 4 300 full time students located in south central Pennsylvania Consistently ranked as a top regional value by U S News and World Report York offers 50 baccalaureate degree programs in the arts and sciences as well as master s degrees in Nursing Education and Business Administration York s 15 1 student to faculty ratio combined with an expansive internship program produces a 90 percent placement rate for graduates in their chosen careers For more information about York College visit www yep edu About CRU DataPort Founded in 1986 and based in Vancouver WA CRU DataPort develops and markets computer data security and storage devices The company s DataPort brand of removable hard drive enclosures has become the de facto standard for physical data security and drive removal in government education and corporate information technology departments CRU DataPort products are available through major distributors OEMs VARs and a host of resellers and systems integrators thro
4. selected DataPort removable hard drive enclosures and cut the average down time for a crippled computer to a mere six minutes By popping in a DataPort the corrupted drive could be hauled back to the shop for a more leisurely repair Sterner was already convinced he had landed on a smart solution but the clincher was the ringing endorsement given by a leading computer manufacturer York s IT department went on to build a system that today utilizes nearly 1000 DataPorts across campus from the eight computer labs to faculty offices to wired classrooms and lecture halls York College standardized on the DataPort V one of CRU DataPort s best selling removable drive enclosures DataPort Features include Mounts in any available 5 25 half height bay PC or MAC makes any standard 3 5 hard drive easily removable and protects the drive during transport and storage A powered key lock prevents unauthorized removal during use and a rear mounted quiet operation fan keeps high speed drives running cool DataPorts are designed to withstand frequent use and include gold plated DIN mating connectors rated for 25 000 insertions DataPorts support IDE SATA or SCSI drives are available in black or beige and are backed by the industry s leading 10 year warranty DataPort We simply couldn t compete with the demands of our students faculty and administration without the DataPorts said Sterner It effectively cut our dow
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