IR&C - Data Center Tours

August 7, 2007

To: UCOP Community
From: Michael Shannon, Director, IR&C; Technology Support Services

• Are you curious where At Your Service Online (AYSO) really lives? • Do you ever wonder how the Data Center keeps running during a power outage? • Would you like to learn about the groundbreaking partnership between UCOP and UCSD for disaster recovery?

Then please join IR&C; for a monthly, guided tour of the UCOP Data Center.

Who	All interested UCOP employees – tours are limited to 10 people
When	Last Thursday of every month, 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. The first tour takes place Thursday, August 30 No tour will be held in November.
How	Reserve a spot by sending an e-mail to opsmgmt@ucop.edu, and state the month you would like to attend.
Where	Kaiser Center Main Building, 300 Lakeside Drive, 2nd floor, in front of the Henry J. Kaiser bust.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to talk with Data Center professionals and learn more about the technology behind UCOP. On the tour, you will

Travel 50 feet below the Kaiser building lobby floor to learn about our emergency systems.
See what’s underneath the Data Center raised floor.
Learn about the Data Center’s cooling and power challenges.
Find out what critical University systems are run in the Data Center.
View a rare and highly collectible piece of network gear.
Identify servers, disk storage subsystems, network gear, and peripherals.
Hear interesting Kaiser Center facts that aren’t mentioned in City of Oakland tours

Come prepared to have fun and ask questions.

Data Center Tours Offered Each Month