Appendix C. Stanford University Directory Architecture

Environment

The Stanford community consists of approximately 1,500 faculty, 8,000 staff, and 14,000 students. The extended community includes over 25,000 alumni. The university is organized in seven schools, several of which regularly receive top honors in national reviews. Many notable research projects are undertaken in over 100 locations, including the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and the Stanford Hospital.

This environment demands sophisticated IT resources that can be easily accessed in a distributed computing model. Some IT support is provided centrally, but each school and research project has autonomy and may deploy computing resources. Central IT helps support resources ...

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