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UWF Computing Hardware Standards
ITS Annual Recommendations
for 2003 - 2004
Why Standards?
Product reliability Product usability Ensures product lifecycle (based on 3 year average) Lifecycle support. Takes the guess work out of “What to buy” Makes it easy to collaborate and consolidate among
vendors. Establishes a common base-line for everyone
purchasing computors.
Who Develops the Standards
ITS Technical Support ITS Systems Engineering Local Support Providers University Software Licensing/Standards Vendors Technical Community at Large User Input/Requests
Recommended Desktop Standards
Intel Pentium 4, 2.2 GHz 512 MB RAM 40 GB Hard Drive 15” Flat Panel Monitor Small Form Factor Floppy to be replaced by USB based memory
modules or “Pen” drives.
Recommended Laptop Standards
Pentium M (Centrino) 1.3 Ghz Processor 512 MB RAM 20 GB Hard Drive Integrated Network Interface Cards (NIC)
with 10/100 Mb ethernet and wireless compatibility (802.11b standard)
Again, preference is for USB memory module instead of floppy drive.
Server Standards
Dell PowerEdge 1650, 2650 & 6650 series are the standard.
ITS works with LSPs to help determine actual hardware specifications based on services or application requirements.
Established Vendor Relationships
Dell* Gateway* Micron HP/Compaq Howard Computers IBM (in testing now) Toshiba (not on State contract yet)
* UWF preferred vendor