2024 in review
This post is meant to give you a short overview of what has been accomplished in D-PHYS IT by ISG this year. We’ve been hard at work to further improve and extend our services for you, our customers.
Some highlights of 2024:
- Infrastructure work: the Vaultwarden password manager was introduced as a new service.
- Email: As part of our continous email server improvements, we updated the Mailman mailing list software to a new major release and drastically increased IMAP search performance.
- Linux workstations: we overhauled the managed Linux workstations setup and migrated almost all Ubuntu workstations to Debian Bookworm.
- Storage: we streamlined the storage infrastructure and implemented significant behind-the-scenes improvements. The disk space occupied by data and backup grew from 5.1 PiB to 5.3 PiB.
- ISG lecture series: we teamed up with our SIS colleagues and managed to increase attendance of the Basics of Computing Environments for Scientists lecture series.
- Matrix/Element: We started collaborating with EPFL who joined the federation. We also received the first spam and implemented countermeasures and additional logging. This year we counted 819 active users on 2978 devices (1014 Windows, 472 Mac, 370 Linux, 534 Android, 276 iPhone, 105 iPad), who sent 1'158'897 messages in 6'740 rooms created on our server. Our users also participated in 1'746 other (and 1'563 spam) rooms with 1'790'894 messages.
- Outages: apart from some short-term network interruptions, our systems were very stable in 2024.
- OS upgrades: almost all managed Windows workstations have been upgraded to Windows 11 and the first Macs to Sequoia.
- Apprentice: we take part in the new Wayup apprenticeship pilot project and could welcome first Eric and now Vanessa into our team.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my whole team for their hard and dedicated work all year long.
Happy Holidays and see you in 2025!
Tags: milestones, projects, review