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RE: VMware price increase

Posted By Tim Chester 04-11-2024 07:13:48 PM
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Speaking here from my University System of Georgia CIO role. Our 26 institutions collectively spent $600k for VMWare licenses 7 years ago . That escalated to $3m for FY23. We did a three-year, fixed price for fixed quantities deal with VMWare to lock in that $3m for 3 years. There was lots of scrubbing ...

RE: VMWare Alternatives

Posted By Tim Chester 02-22-2024 07:02:51 AM
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The University of Georgia and the University System of Georgia are in the first year of a three-year contract with VMWare. We have encouraged everyone to migrate from on-premises to the cloud as part of our efforts to lower VMWare spending over time. Providers like Amazon, Azure, and Oracle offer ...

RE: Traveling around Chicago Next week

Posted By Tim Chester 10-06-2023 06:45:29 PM
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This is all good advice - thanks to those who responded via the list and several others who responded just to me. I plan to take the train. See you in Chicago. Best, Tim Sent via iPadOS and probably on the run. Please excuse typos and grammar problems.

Traveling around Chicago Next week

Posted By Tim Chester 10-05-2023 11:59:00 AM
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Friends, Just a logistical question – I have not been to Chicago since the pandemic occurred. There are substantial anecdotal reports about public safety and crime in Chicago. I don't know the degree to which those reports are factually accurate or well represented by the data, but they are a cause ...

Fwd: Attention MOVEit Transfer Customers: Immediate Action Required

Posted By Tim Chester 05-31-2023 04:15:18 PM
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 FYI - if you are a MOVEit customer. From: Progress MOVEit Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 14:00 To: sss-mft Subject: Attention MOVEit Transfer Customers: Immediate Action Required Some people who received this message don't often get email from progress@inform.progress.com. Learn why this ...

RE: Sharon P. Pitt named Brown's vice president for information technology

Posted By Tim Chester 09-28-2022 07:21:08 AM
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Let me jump in here too. I can't think of a stronger leader than Sharon Pitt. I've known her for about a decade now, and she is a person with a strong vision and the natural ability to rally others around that vision; and she is skilled in leading teams and developing talent. Brown is a great opportunity ...

Grails Vulnerability in Ellucian Products

Posted By Tim Chester 07-29-2022 11:10:10 AM
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Friends and Colleagues, I'm writing to raise awareness and gauge responses from the community regarding the recently announced (July 20) remote code exploits in Ellucian products, coming from the embedded SDKs for Grails. Ellucian released this on July 20th NIST released this today. NIST ...

Passing of Tom Putnam, Previous Associate Vice Chancellor for IT, UC Santa Barbara

Posted By Tim Chester 04-19-2022 08:12:00 AM
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Friends, It's with a heavy heart and at the request of his family that I write to inform you of the passing of Tom Putnam. In his last position, Tom was the Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. But I got to know him when I worked ...

Passing of Tom Putnam, Previous Associate Vice Chancellor for IT, UC Santa Barbara Attachments

Posted By Tim Chester 04-19-2022 08:11:52 AM
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RE: Long Time Listener, First Time Caller

Posted By Tim Chester 10-24-2021 05:54:54 AM
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 I'll do you better than that. Almost 20 years ago when I first became a CIO Greg published this article. At that point I had just accepted the CIO job for a branch campus of Texas A&M. A CIO's Question: Will You Still Need Me When I'm 64? https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-cios-question-will- ...

Congrats!

Posted By Tim Chester 09-28-2021 11:41:00 AM
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Congratulations to the team at EDUCAUSE on the launch of your new connect site. I just finished browsing through it, and I think it is a remarkable improvement over the old listserv. The change associated with these projects, both technical and human, is considerable - and as one member of the community, ...