TigerBytes I was officially made unavailable to students Monday, leaving the new, more powerful TigerBytes II as the only online storage system available to students.TigerBytes I became unavailable Monday morning at 7:30 a.m., but the information has not yet been permanently deleted, said Sheri Thompson, IT planning and communications officer.”On the front end, we just no longer make [TigerBytes I] available,” Thompson said. “That doesn’t mean everything has been wiped.”Thompson said the TigerBytes I servers will be taken offline as soon as IT workers can get to it, which will be a routine procedure and depends on where it falls on the queue.”The servers are being decommissioned,” Thompson said. “They’re very old, so they will be taken offline.”Until Monday, students who logged on to TigerBytes I were taken to an intermediate page which explained the transition to TigerBytes II and gave instructions on how to move files to the new system.There were 8,813 active TigerBytes II accounts Feb. 9. The number of users has increased since then, with 10,351 current accounts, Thompson said.TigerBytes II has a much larger storage capacity than TigerBytes I, offering 1 gigabyte of space compared to the 50 to 100 megabytes offered by its predecessor. The new system also offers other new features, like the capability of being used as a Web hosting client.—-Contact Ryan Buxton at [email protected]
TigerBytes I no longer available
March 1, 2010