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 September 01, 2014.
More details on the policy change can be found at: httphttps://security.utexas.edu/policies/iruspirusp#19.html#section_5_23_3
Commodity servers are defined as systems providing basic information technology services to university affiliates (e.g., web services, mail services, file services, database services, directory services, collaboration services).
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