The HSPH IT staff employs two climate-controlled server rooms with battery backup; one located on the main campus near the IT Office in Kresge LL and the other at Landmark Center.

• Email server (Sun Enterprise 5500 with 10 CPUs, 10 GB Ram)
• Novell cluster system (Dell/EMC 5-node Novell redundant cluster)
• Web, database, application and video servers (Apache on LINUX/UNIX; MS SQL Server; ColdFusion MX 7; RealNetwork's HELIX)
• Dozens of smaller task-specific servers

The server team provides both free and fee-based services to the community.

In an effort to consolidate and protect servers, secure server housing for departments in our card-accessed, climate-controlled server room is available free of charge.

• departmental server management (priced on a per server per year rate)
• additional disk space (charged on a per MB per year rate)

• HSPH has two options for departments that have a need for a large amount of disk space.

• Option I -- Purchase Space on Existing Server
  

  Space may be purchased on our cluster system at the rate of $290.00/GB/Year

  This fee includes:
  
  
• 24/7 support and monitoring
• mutiple staff members preforming the management
• nightly backups
• storage of the backup tapes in a locked cabinet
• storage of the last weekly backup tapes to a fire-proof safe in a different building
• install server based virus scanning software and keep it up to date daily
• monitoring all security updates and apply them ASAP
• manage user and group permissions and directories
• manage user accounts
  
  
• Option II -- Purcahse Management Services by HSPH staff

For those departments that have a need for their own server, we offer fee-based non-core server management services to HSPH departments. We currently manage any Novell Netware or Microsoft Windows Server OS.

Pricing is $8,437.00/year.

This includes:

• 24/7 support and monitoring
  
• housing of the server in our secured climate controlled and alarmed server room
  
• mutiple staff members preforming the management
• nightly backups
  
• storage of the backup tapes in a locked cabinet
  
• storage of the last weekly backup tapes to a fire-proof safe in a different building
  
• install server based virus scanning software and keep it up to date daily
  
• monitoring all security updates and apply them ASAP
  
• manage user and group permissions and directories
  
• manage user accounts
  
  We will not manage any custom or 3rd party software such as database applications under the normal pricing. Please call us to discuss these options. We can support some software, depending upon our experience with it.