A Virtual Locker?
Campus Technology Magazine
July 2005
Higher education IT pioneer Annie Stunden is seeing her visions as a CIO becoming realities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Everyone should have a Web space for file storage, sharing, and collaboration. This fall, as a new crop of freshmen enter the university they'll have, along with their My UW-Madison Web portal, better access and storage for digital files than ever. My WebSpace, a system for Web-accessible file storage, retrieval, and sharing, debuted last year and proved so popular that the university plans to ratchet up service to accommodate 10,000 new users this fall. (Add that to last year's level of 19,000, with close to a million files and folders.) With more than 40,000 students attending the university and over 13,000 faculty, the content management and file sharing system is poised for even more expansion. But Madison's DoIT staff is confident that the Xythos-based system will be scalable enough to handle the expected growth.