Tech Briefing - Spring 2011

No Tech Briefing due to Drupal Camp @ Stanford

For more information, visit http://drupalcamp.stanford.edu.

Data Management for IT Environments

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This session will focus on HDPS (Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by Commvault) from a technology perspective and how it bridges to a modern data management and protection strategy.

The IntraServe Systems team will cover how it incorporates a tightly integrated blend of snapshot, replication, and persistent copies that are secure, de-duplicated, managed, and accessible through a single, unified platform. 

Shailen Patel, IntraServe Systems
 

Apple Update - Cancelled due to presenter illness

Come hear Stanford's Apple representative Wyn Davies talk about what's new with Apple, and answer your questions about these latest offerings from Apple. 

Command-Line NetDB

Handout (MS Word) :: Handout (PDF)

This class will show some of the features of command-line NetDB, which is available to anyone with NetDB access.

The primary use of command-line NetDB is to do bulk changes to multiple records much more quickly than can be done with the web form. Integration of web searches and bulk command-line changes will be shown.

Drupal 101: How to get started with Drupal at Stanford

Join Mark Branom as he guides you through the miriad of Drupal resources on campus, along with a demonstration of installing, creating and editing content, and granting access in Drupal.

Come with your questions!

Campus Cell Coverage - Where are we? Where are we going?

Come learn about where the University is headed with regard to cell coverage.

There are many challenges in keeping up with the ever-increasing demand for data usage. Also, Verizon will be on hand to discuss their cell plans and their particular plans for Stanford.

Michael Schumacher & Ernie Lee, Verizon

Erich Snow, Director, University IT Facilities and Operations

Adobe CS5 Design - Photoshop / InDesign / Illustrator

Join Adobe's Sr. Solutions Engineer for Education, Rick Miller as he demonstrates the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS5, InDesign CS5, and Illustrator CS5.

Learn how Adobe Photoshop CS5 software redefines the state of the art with a strong focus on photography, breakthrough painting and selection capabilities, and a wide range of workflow and performance enhancements.

See how you can use InDesign CS5 to publish engaging documents for print, online, and mobile devices. Discover how Illustrator CS5 allows you to draw accurately in perspective, create variable-width strokes, paint with lifelike brushes, and use new CS Live online services.

Statistical Features of SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS Enterprise Guide provides an intuitive, graphical point-and-click interface that helps you exploit the reporting and analytic power of SAS. 

The presentation will include a short overview of  SAS Enterprise Guide and will then focus on performing specific menu driven, analytic tasks. Deploying results via Microsoft Office applications and email will be illustrated as well as creating dynamic reports with parameter prompting. 

Selected tasks will include

• frequency tables, cross-tabulations, and contingency tables
• distribution analysis
• stepwise regression analysis
• logistic regression analysis
• interactive plots and charts

Bill Powers, SAS

No Tech Briefing - Memorial Day Weekend

High Performance Computing

Explore how to simplify research computing with HPC (High Performance Computing) solutions. HP specialists will speak to purposeful built - integrated HP HPC Servers, Cluster Management, and Storage that will help with research efforts.

Grace Caulfield, HP
Jon Saposhnik (Speaker), HP
Gary Gething (Speaker), HP
John Hurst (Speaker), HP

What's New in Drupal 7

Presentation

The latest major version of the Drupal Content Management System was released in January. Come find out the newest features of this rapidly-growing web publishing platform.

John Bickar, Stanford Libraries

Zach Chandler, Academic Technology

Marco Wise, University IT

Update on the Scientific Research Computing Facility (SRCF) Project

This briefing will update the campus and SLAC community on the SRCF project. The final site, general design and overall plans for the new facility will be discussed.

To track the project on an ongoing basis, please see: http://srcf.stanford.edu/

Stanford Web Forms Service - Update

The Stanford Web Forms service was launched two and a half years ago, and continues to grow with almost 3,000 forms created by over 1,000 users.

Join Marco Wise, University IT, as he covers the latest features of this free service, such as:

• Cloning of forms
• Saving submissions to complete them later
• Email confirmations
• CSV attachments

Marco will also discuss some of the upcoming changes, and answer your questions.

http://webforms.stanford.edu