About

The St. Petersburg Regional Data Center (SPRDAC), pronounced "spur-dak", is a USF St. Petersburg auxiliary that serves to generate financial reserves to replace hardware within Campus Computing. SPRDAC consists of three groups: systems and network support and hardware repair. The SPRDAC systems and network group maintains numerous Microsoft Windows servers and four Sun Solaris servers. These servers provide the following services for the USFSP campus community:

• Email routing
• Domain name system (DNS)
• Web services
• Network printing
• File and network access (NAS) storage
• Network software
• Telephony, Voice over IP (VoIP) and Voicemail
• Keyless entry security
• Video surveillance
• Energy management
• Cisco Clean Access
• Bomgar (Share My PC) remote administration
• Symantec
• Patchlink software update management
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Reverse 911
• PacketShaper 10000 Packeteer
• IronPort email and Web security appliances
• Wireless
• Active Directory Services

STPnet, the campus network, is based on Ethernet technology. SPRDAC is responsible for monitoring, cabling and the future expansion or redevelopment of STPnet. The network, operating at speeds of up to 256 billion bits per second, has provided the infrastructure to transport vast amounts of data and media needed to position USF St. Petersburg as a major research institution and achieve its institutional goals.