IT Services has started to connect all Stanford residential networks to a newly upgraded backbone network in an effort to reduce the possibility of network failures and Internet outages such as the one that affected residences across campus last month.
An Internet outage affected students across campus early Tuesday morning, with the failure of a network distribution switch causing the loss of wired and wireless Internet access for approximately three hours. The issue has since been resolved
The Editorial Board is disappointed that Stanford IT Services is seemingly disinterested in ensuring respectful business practices by its official partners, and the Board calls upon Stanford to clean up this poorly implemented migration process.
IT Services announced two changes to the stanford.edu framework of Google Apps for Education, effective Friday, May 27. The first change entails authentication to the… Continue Reading »
Forwarding to alums from their Stanford address “will create significant problems,” said ITS.
Students may have to expect a $54 increase to the communications fee on their University bill over the next three academic years.
When Tenzin Seldon ‘12 logged into her Gmail account from New York over winter break, she had no idea that someone else was also logged into her account — from China. Nor did she know that she had become part of Google’s investigation into a suspected widespread cyber-attack program potentially centralized across the Pacific.