Objective
This project will bring together 3 separate related projects across IS&T involving the deployment of virtual machines (VMs) to the community into one shared framework and base that can be leveraged for each need and supported and maintained effectively by IS&T.
Background
Virtual machines provide a method for solving some difficult IT problems at MIT such as:
- How do we effectively provide access to certain Windows only applications to the Macintosh community?
- How can we effectively provide a consistent computing environment for students on their laptops across a wide variety or hardware and operating system choices?
- How can we provide a secure and reproducible base VM that departments, labs and centers (DLCs) can leverage for their own purposes and save the 4-8 hours of VM creation each time?
Three separate efforts/projects were started last fall in IS&T, one focused on the business application area, another focused on student computing and a third focused on the basic underlying steps. As we shared information about these various approaches, it quickly became apparent that we should work together to avoid duplication of effort and provide a better service that would be easier to support for the community, so we formed the Virtual Project Team.
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