We will be moving ICTS staff mailboxes from on-premise Exchange 2010/2013 servers to the Office 365 Datacenter (in Europe…), next week. We hope to use this as a final test before we start with the rest of the 9000-odd mailboxes.
A lot of work and preparation went into this project, and after this is done, the only box to be ticked will be to migrate away from Mailman as our mailing list software.
We are just about ready to start the first part of our Openstack research cloud implementation, in collaboration with Canonical. Thanks to our colleagues in NI and TCS for all your help in getting stuff this far!
See some of the pics of the DC and kit….
| Name | Area of expertise | Technologies |
| Eugene van Rooyen | Line Manager | (Herding the sheep…) |
| Donald Coetzee | Identity Management | Novell IDM, SimpleSAMLPhp, E-Dir |
| Durie Solomons | Identity Management | Novell IDM, EDir |
| Muzi Lubisi | Identity Management | Novell IDM, Active Directory Federation Services |
| Mohamed Ismail | Database Management | Microsoft SQL DB & Reporting Services |
| Ilyas Farrakhov | Database Management & Third Party Applications | Microsoft SQL, MS CRM |
| Marco Dippenaar | Microsoft Technologies | AD, ADFS, Sharepoint |
| Pieter van Wyk | Microsoft Technologies | Office 365, Exchange, Hyper-V |
| Kwezi Plaatjie | Microsoft Technologies | Exchange, WSUS |
| Steve Ndabeni | Microsoft Technologies | Exchange, Office 365 |
| Bongani Quwe | Datacenter & Facilities | |
| Randy Thompson | Datacenter & Facilities | |
| Waylon Horne | Virtualisation & Storage | VMware, Netapp |
| Brent Boswell | Virtualisation & Storage | VMware Linux |
| Mike Currin | Storage, Open Source | Netapp, Linux |
| Stefan Coetzee | Virtualisation, Open Source, Security | Linux, Splunk, Openstack |
| Nelis Lamprecht | SAP ERP | Basis, Linux |
| Ian Josias | Peoplesoft | Campus Solutions, DB2 |
| Thembela Sonteya | SAP ERP, BI | Basis, Business Objects |
