Formerly the associate director for Administrative Systems and Distributed Technologies at Cornell, Mara was responsible for overseeing the technical architecture of the university's administrative systems as well as that of a number of distributed applications. In his new role as director, Mara will oversee the activities of the former Technology Integration and Communications Group, which managed authentication utilities and directions. Mara is a 1969 graduate of Cornell University and joined the administrative computing group at Cornell in 1970. Effective October 1st EZ-Backup will offer reduced rates for its service. The service is available for systems using Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Novell and other operating systems, and allows individuals to restore data on demand.
Discounts are available for departments and for long-term archiving of static data.
The service is currently only available for billing to university accounts. During the pilot and evaluation phases of the campus calendar project , Cornell Information Technologies established four e-mail lists for discussing, evaluating and seeking answers to technical questions related to Corporate Time at Cornell. Now that the calendar project has moved into the production phase, the role and scope of these lists is being redefined. The new purpose of the list will be to provide users with a venue for sharing announcements and general discussion of CorporateTime, its functions, as well as tips and tricks. As a reminder, while the CorporateTime evaluation server will continue to be available for departments to evaluate the product, it should not be considered a production server.