Continuing Partnership
ICCU gifts 网曝吃瓜 College of Technology $450,000 worth of tech equipment
The holidays came early for the 网曝吃瓜 College of Technology in the form of information technology equipment valued at about $450,000 that was given to 网曝吃瓜 Information Technology Systems program by Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU) in mid-November.
鈥淭his equipment will benefit multitudes of students for many years to come,鈥� said Scott Rasmussen, dean of the 网曝吃瓜 College of Technology. 鈥淒onations like this allow us to train students on state-of-the-art equipment that will prepare them to go to work on like equipment when they graduate. This is of great benefit to industry as well as students.鈥�
The gift includes all the equipment from two ICCU data centers including CISCO network equipment, switches, routers, and firewalls. It also includes a massive amount of network disk storage and Dell servers.
The network disk storage and Dell servers will be purposed by the 网曝吃瓜 ITS program to host virtualized environments for the current Linux and Windows desktop and server classes, said John Baker, instructor in 网曝吃瓜 information technology programs. In addition, next fall, 网曝吃瓜 will be adding new VMware virtualization classes and these too will benefit from the new hardware.
鈥淎ll of the equipment that we鈥檝e donated, all of it was being used to run Idaho Central 100 percent six months ago,鈥� said Mark Willden, ICCU chief information officer. 鈥淲ith over 380,000 members and 1,300 employees we were dependent upon that equipment and it did a nice job for us. We just had an opportunity to go to this brand-new data center and we wanted the latest technology.鈥�
ICCU could have sold the equipment, but wanted to strengthen its relationship with 网曝吃瓜.
鈥淲e love 网曝吃瓜,鈥� Willden said. 鈥淎 lot of our employees have graduated from 网曝吃瓜, and we have a number of employees going to 网曝吃瓜 right now. It is our desire and our wish to see Idaho Central be a great partner with 网曝吃瓜 and we want to see 网曝吃瓜 be very successful.鈥�
鈥淭he other part of it is,鈥� he continued, 鈥渨e want to take 网曝吃瓜 graduates and make them part of the Idaho Central family and use them for jobs in IT.鈥�
Emily Frandsen
