Software and Hardware Evaluation Pilot Process

The Software and Hardward Evaluation Pilot (SWEVAL) is an effort by IS&T to work with our clients in an cost and time effective manner to evaluate potential software and hardware products with the community.

Ongoing Evaluations 

We are beginning the process with the Hard Disk Encryption Evaluationpilot. Other applications and hardware will be noted here when we begin then and once we have completed several evaluations we will add an archive.

Software Evaluations Underway

• Hard Disk Encryption Evaluation

Hardware Evaluations Underway

• Intel Mac Academic Computing Experiments(pre-startup phase)

Evaluation Process 

The SWEVAL process map shows the various steps of the process. The process itself is in a pilot implementation and feedback should be sent to jmhunt@mit.edu or left as a comment within the Wiki. The steps in yellow are the ones we are currently evaluating.

Please comment on the process with suggestions or questions using the comment function below.  Anyone at MIT should be able to add a comment to this Wiki.

Wiki 

Our hope is that by utilizing this Wiki we can simplify the process of providing feedback, as well as provide a more interactive community for the evaluators across the community so they can see what their colleagues are saying in real time as they evaluate certain products.  We are still learning the advantages and tricks to using a Wiki, so if it looks like we can do something better, please add a comment as we can all learn from each other.  -  Thanks!