The Information Technology Office has finished working with our internet service provider to increase our available internet bandwidth. We have now effectively doubled our available bandwidth. This project was initiated in response to the recent Online Data Collection issues. We are still pursuing multiple avenues to address the overall issue and will continue posting progress as the work continues. Please feel free to contact Douglas Ward or David Reid with any questions or concerns you may have regarding this important infrastructure upgrade.
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Has anyone considered moving some of the intensive data applications to cloud servers–such as are hosted by a number of major internet providers. Such a solution (easily integrated locally into the latest versions of ubuntu Linux, for instance) would enable us to scale bandwidth for the short periods needed for charge conference and end of year reporting without the cost of upgrading the bandwidth 365 days per year. It just seems that the capital and ongoing costs involved in running so many intensive web applications on site (in terms of servers, maintenance and bandwidth) is growing at a pace that will be hard to sustain.
The Information Technology Office is constantly reviewing new technology and assessing its impact on Conference operations. This specific system could be outsourced to a cloud based solution but I do not believe that the usage requirements demand it. The existing Online Data Collection System has run its useful life and is now scheduled to be replaced.
The issues that we have had over the last six months with bandwidth are related to several other initiatives that will exist after we outsource the database. As such, outsourcing this system would not lessen our bandwidth requirements. The actual function of collecting our required annual data is not that bandwidth or processor intensive in and of itself. It is the architecture of the current system that is causing this problem more than anything else.