[Macpartners] IS&T Backup Services Announcement

[Mark Silis]

Good afternoon,

We’re excited to share with you an update regarding IS&T’s desktop / laptop service offerings. Beginning July 1, 2014, IS&T will roll out a new, cloud-based backup service offering: CrashPlan. Between July 2014, and June 2015, all existing TSM desktop / laptop users (almost 6000 devices!) will be migrated to the new service. As of July 1, 2014, backup services will be made available to the entire MIT community without charge as part of our ongoing effort to eliminate chargebacks and to enhance our services for the MIT community.

IS&T will begin contacting existing TSM users in the month of July to coordinate their migration to the new service. New user registrations for CrashPlan will be available in a similar timeframe. Please refer to http://ist.mit.edu/backup for additional information.

We carefully evaluated four potential successors for TSM. For more information on the selection process, please review the presentation delivered at IT Partners in 2013. It’s our hope that CrashPlan will provide the community with an improved user experience for backup services and make it easier to protect your critical data. If you have any questions or comments about any of the above, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Thanks,
Mark

Mark Silis

Associate Director Operations & Infrastructure
MIT Information Services & Technology
mark at mit.edu 617.324.5900

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