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Dave MacDonald, ITS, retires!
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Please join us as we celebrate Dave MacDonald鈥檚 retirement, a member of the ITS family who has worked 39 years with us.
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Time/Date:听 March 25, 2013, 3:30 鈥� 5:00
Location:听 University Club Pub
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This was Dave鈥檚 first and only full-time job, a testament of how he felt about working at 黄色直播.
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Dave has worked tirelessly, often behind the scenes, as Operations Manager for the Data Centre.听 He has seen many changes come to pass in our industry.听 We鈥檝e gone from a centralized computing environment that used 1000kg weight mainframe computers, to decentralized computing, and now the move to a virtualized world.听 We have gone from 16 hour Monday-Sunday staff supported data centre, to a Mon-Fri, 8 hour support.
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Think about this, the jobs that now run overnight for Registrar and Finance, used to involve boxes and boxes of print cards for just one print job, each card representing 1 student or 1 transaction.听 Those backups we now take for granted used to mean writing to 10-15 magnetic tapes (each 2400 ft) just to accomplish one backup.
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For many, you cannot possibly understand the changes Dave had to make to adapt to the IT world.
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So come out to the celebration and hear more of the stories that I鈥檓 sure will unfold!
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See you there!