{"id":2021,"date":"2015-03-31T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T00:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2015-03-31T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T00:29:40","slug":"one-small-department-and-8k-pcs-800-printers-690-wireless-access-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2015\/03\/31\/one-small-department-and-8k-pcs-800-printers-690-wireless-access-points\/","title":{"rendered":"One small department and 8K PCs, 800 printers, 690 wireless access points"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the public, the face of the school district is likely the local school your kids go to now\u2013or once attended\u2013or maybe the local school you attended growing up. You remember your teachers, or your children\u2019s teachers: the good ones you liked and maybe even some of the ones you didn\u2019t like so much. Most people\u2019s view of the district is generally pretty localized, and compartmentalized by our own limited local school experience.
\nThe public doesn\u2019t hear much about the district\u2019s Information Services staff. These are the computer guys that work in the bowels of the Borough building in Soldotna or travel from school to school supporting technology in the field. The Information Services view of the district may be different than yours. They see a much bigger picture, because, well, they have to keep that big picture up and running. The district is big business, and it takes Information Technology professionals on top of their game to keep the peninsula\u2019s largest employer running smoothly, with 8,000 PCs, 800 networked printers, hundreds of Interactive white boards, 690 wireless access points, and 900 security cameras, and so forth. The list of things to maintain and support goes on and on \u2026 and seems to gets bigger every year as technology evolves. Add all those schools together and the district is much bigger than many people realize.
\nInformation Services lives in an evolving environment, adapting to the ever-changing needs of our students and staff. For example, last summer saw a major software upgrade to 30 point-of-sale computers used in our school cafeteria lunch lines. Those final 30 completed a multi-year move to Microsoft Windows 7 on all district computers. Since the beginning of school in August 2014, there have been some substantial bandwidth upgrades at Nanwalek, Port Graham, Hope, Seldovia, Tyonek, and Marathon school, improving network performance at those sites. Add to that 96 Terabytes of disk storage for servers and databases being installed now. Just a few activities, on a wide variety of fronts, in the Information Services department at KPBSD, where something big is always happening.
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\nStory contributed by Jim White, director of information services
\nMarch 2015
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