The University's Executive Compliance Committee (ECC) has made a policy change that requires all commodity servers to be physically or virtually located in the University Data Center. Such a change helps to address a number of risks that the committee has been monitoring over the years. Note: The policy change has been published , but it will not be made effective until and in effect September 01, 2014.
More details on the policy change can be found at: http://security.utexas.edu/policies/irusp.html#section_5_23_4
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