Structuring the staff and students within their departments via the NDS allows us to handle this process very efficiently. With NDS, the University s IT staff can distribute management of departmental servers. The NDS tools allow users to create workgroups using securely backed up filestore from central servers. NDS has simplified the University s network management tasks by centralising control. The University, founded in 1881, is one of the UK s top 20 research universities.
Many departments are world renowned for their scientific, engineering and medical research output.
It comprises approximately 150 separate academic and research entities on its intranet. The entire University population has access to its intranet. Three thousand faculty and staff and 12,000 students access 150 applications such as Office Professional, SAS, SPSS, AutoCAD, and Business Objects through the intranet. The University optimises costs by using NetWare based package license broking to share network based applications among users. Authors are provided with web publishing facilities, and have security and control over disseminating their material.