"We tried to do it at night so it would impact the least amount of people and services," said Rosemary Barrett, technical support analyst. "We know that it affects faculty, staff and students - especially students and faculty, because of the fact we're right at the end of semester."
ITS met with groups that will be affected by the upgrade and decided May 12 would have the least impact, Barrett said.
ITS is getting a power upgrade for almost $1 million that will allow it to host more than twice as many servers, raising the number from 256 to 544.
