Director's Cut

Ho, ho, ho! http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/openadvent/

“Dear User, The short version of this message is that the Hotmail block on mail sent from Oxford University has been removed. Mails from Oxford to Hotmail, Live and MSN sent and queued from last week may take a day … Continue reading →

If you are then tell us – if you think things could be bettered then tell us that also! OUCS is running a user satisfaction survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/oucs_users And yes there are prize draws…

If I haven’t mentioned this before, shame on me. A really really useful service launched by OUCS earlier this year – OxFILE – which allows you to share large files for use elsewhere for a short time period. Great for … Continue reading →

Alex Dutton of OUCS was named the JISC developer of the year. It was noted, worryingly, that he is in dnger of becoming a “guru” – http://code.google.com/p/jiscexpo/wiki/AwardsDinner#Project_Developer_of_the_Year

The THES listed the Mobile Oxford service as one of the Top 5 mobile sites worldwide in use in HE! http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=416937

The University of Bangor has picked up the code developed by the MObile Oxford team and created a Welsh language version for their students. See: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/mobile/

Oxford now has a site licence for anyone to use with a single sign-on account to the Gartner reports. Access to the Gartner site is via http://ezproxy.bodleian.ox.ac.uk:2048/gartner; this requires entry of SSO username /password after which you will be directed … Continue reading →

These reports are timely and useful. One gives an overview of cloud computing, and the other an interesting analysis of the true cost of IT downtime: “The first is a briefing paper on the cloud. The main purpose of the … Continue reading →

The new data centre goes live offering a range of shared infrastructure services for the collegiate University. See http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/sis/