JULY 18th, 2017 - It was the best yet nostalgic time of the year when all CICT staffs were gathered to celebrate Hari Raya for the very last time in Kubang Gajah Campus office as the construction of the new CICT building in the main campus Pauh Putra is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year 2017. Everyone was in their best outfit and having so much fun chatting and eating delicious foods brought by the staffs themselves. Photos were also taken to commemorate this moment as they have been working there for many years.
APRIL 18, 2017 - Today, CICT successfully hosted a training regarding bootstrap mobile programming, which was instructed by the Senior IT Officer, Mr Mohd Fitri Edros. The training class took place at CICT meeting room were attended by 16 staffs which mostly had system development and website as its background. Two of the participants were from the Bursary department while 14 others were from CICT itself as well as the CICT Director, Mr Nasrudin Abd Shukor himself.
APRIL 12, 2017 - The inauguration planting of harumanis mango trees around Data Centre Pauh was successfully made by the Dato' Vice Chancellor himself, along with the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic & International Prof. Ir. Dr. Hj. Rezuwan Hj. Kamaruddin, the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs & Alumni Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd. Fo'ad Sakdan and the ICT Director’s himself, Mr. Nasrudin Abd Shukor.
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Kangar, MARCH 17th, 2017 - Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) had launched an addition to the UniMAP logo, now bearing the Universiti Malaysia Perlis wording besides the original logo. The launch was completed during the Seri Gemilang Putra UniMAP 2016 Award Ceremony at Putra Regency Hotel, here yesterday.
The launch was made in conjunction with the 10 years celebration after UniMAP was rebranded from Kolej Universiti Kejuruteraan Utara Malaysia (KUKUM) on 1st February 2007 .
According to the Vice Chancellor of UniMAP, Dato' Prof. Dr. Zul Azhar Zahid Jamal, the launch of the new logo is also in line with its increasing use and function.
"UniMAP is now 10 years, counting from the date of its branding, thus, an additional logo will better highlight UniMAP’s corporate image in the local and international scene.
"In addition, the launch of the new logo is also expected to reduce public's confusion in associating UniMAP with other public universities," he said.
Raja Muda of Perlis, who is also UniMAP Chancellor, Tuanku Faizuddin Putra Jamalullail launched the logo. Raja Puan Muda of Perlis, who is also the Pro-Chancellor of UniMAP, Tuanku Hajjah Lailatul Shahreen Akashah Khalil had also graced the audience with her presence.
Also present were Perlis Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Azlan Man; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Dato 'Prof. Emeritus Ir. Dr. Zainai Haji Mohamed and former Vice Chancellor of UniMAP, Datuk Prof. Emeritus Dr Kamarudin Hussin.
Meanwhile, a UniMAP time capsule containing hope notes, which was kept for 10 years, was also opened at the 2016 ASG in order to reminiscince on the hopes that were written ten years ago.
The hope written by UniMAP Chancellor wishes that all missions and visions of the university will be successfully achieved.
UniMAP Pro Canselor also hoped that luck will always be with UniMAP in its jourey to strive for excellence.
Dr. Kamarudin’s note is a prayer that UniMAP will be a famous university worldwide.
For the record, over 2000 students and staff produced the notes that are included in the time capsule at the UniMAP campus in Kubang Gajah on the midnight on 1st February, 2007.
The university received a visit from ASWARA College and Sigma Rectrix System (M) Sdn Bhd. The aim of their visit is to learn and see the great achievements of CICT UniMAP that has moved forward towards the Green Data Centre. In addition, the participants also gained experience possessed by UniMAP in creating a structured data center facility as the data centre also equipped with a great "Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)".
ASWARA College represented by its own CICT Director, Mr Ku Aznal Shahri Ku Abd Hamid and his information technology officer, Mr. Asrul Izham Jaafar. As for Sigma Rectrix System(M) Sdn Bhd, the company was represented by Mr. Muhammad Ibrahim bin Hussain, CEO of the company itself and two of its staff, Haziq Ismail and Ahmad Firdaus Khan.
At first, they arrived at ICT Kubang Gajah for an introductory session and a briefing from the Director of CICT UniMAP, Encik Nasrudin Abd Shukor. There, the participants were given information about UniMAP and CICT UniMAP, on how CICT UniMAP works and how CICT UniMAP handle the problems and how they solve them. Then the participants are taken to the main campus of UniMAP. This is where they were taken to see the data center that became the pride of UniMAP, the Green Data Centre. The participants were taken to look around the new data center and see all the hardware and servers used to make the daily work at UniMAP running smoothly. Finally, the participants and the director of CICT UniMAP exchange ideas to strengthen the operations of CICT UniMAP and CICT ASWARA College for coming days.
20 Sept 2016 - ICT Centre had organized a course & training for network team’s staffs in order to expose them with the latest network technology. The course “Training for Cambium Wireless Bridge PTP” was handled by Encik Mohd Afham B. Mohd Sabri, a wireless engineer from Roots Communication Sdn. Bhd. The presence of all network team’s staffs indicates that this course is essential in driving UniMAP forward in communication networking technology. Furthermore, En.Nasrudin the director of ICT UniMAP had also participated in the course & training.
7 Sept 2016- YBhg Dato' Prof Dr Zul Azhar Zahid Jamal made a brief visit to ICT Data Center in Pauh Putra escorted by ICT's Director, Mr. Nasrudin Abd Shukor. This visit was objectively to oversee the current infrastructure of ICT Data Center compared to other IPTAs in Malaysia.
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Vice Chancellor,YBhg Dato' Prof Dr Zul Azhar Zahid Jamal alongside ICT's Director, Nasrudin Abd Shukor and other UniMAP's top officers were observing UniMAP's Point-to-point wireless bridge as the new design of distributed campus computer networks at KWSP building, Kangar
2016 Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) was selected as the host of meetings of the Council of Directors of ICT IPTA (MAPITA) which was held at the main campus in Pauh Putra.
In a statement issued by the UniMAP ICT Department , as many as 20 universities involved, including representatives of the Ministry of Education at a meeting held at the university.
The meeting was chaired by the Chairman of MAPITA, Director of Computer Centre UTeM , Mohd Isa Mohd Dom .
This meeting discussed the current issues of planning and ICT university centers involved in addition to the presentation of the latest technology by the industry are invited .
Progress Meeting for Data Centre development together with vendor and consultant
On 28th July, the ICT UNIMAP organized Linux Training in collaboration with Celestra . A total of 7 staff involved in the Linux Training for this year .
UniMAP Technical Workshop - Understand the differences between operational and configuration mode in JUNOS
After sitting in on this workshop, all staff who are join this training will be able to understand the differences between operational and configuration mode in JUNOS.
Display familiarity in the following products :
- Juniper MX Series routers
- Juniper SRX Series Firewalls
- Juniper EX series Switches
- Juniper OFabric System
- Juniper Junos Space management platform
- Juniper Firefly host
- Juniper Webapp Secure
Explain the responsibilities of each of the above listed products.
This move will help put UniMAP at the forefront of ICT facilities among universities, says UniMAP IT Head Nasrudin Abd Shukor.
Higher technical education institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) is to build a green data centre using Juniper MetaFabric architecture to help enhance IT services and cut operating expenditure.
Nasrudin Abd Shukor, director of IT for UniMAP said the new facility, due to be fully operational by February 2015, will help UniMAP to "dramatically reduce the environmental footprint and operational costs of its data centre operations while enhancing service delivery to students, staff and external parties."
"At a time when data centre operations are under pressure to enhance its service delivery to students, academicians, staff and external parties while adhering to green environmental footprint and lower operational costs, Juniper Networks MetaFabric architecture, which includes security and network management solutions have been identified, selected and deployed at our Pauh Putra campus new data centre to help us, achieve the above," said Nasrudin.
He said that as the new architecture will use far fewer devices than a conventional data centre network, Juniper Networks QFabric System requires anywhere from 68 percent to 89 percent less power.
"At the same time, the new data centre network designed with microseconds latency will enable us to provide leading-edge data centre access, putting UniMAP at the forefront of ICT facilities among universities in Malaysia," said Nasrudin, adding that the new facility is designed to support cloud operations.
He said that UniMAP's ICT Centre currently offered more than 50 Web-based systems to students and staff, several of which are already being offered as apps for Android mobile platforms. With average port-to-port latency of just three microseconds across the QFX3000-M, the new cloud data centre infrastructure was expected to deliver considerably faster system response times and greater reliability on service delivery
"Leading educational institutions today require a network that can keep up with the rigorous demands of their business and leverage the cloud in a smart and evolutionary way," said Juniper Networks senior vice president, Asia Pacific, Wendy Koh. "We are delighted that UniMAP has selected our MetaFabric architecture that allows their new data centre to operate as a single pool of network resources, providing tremendous levels of flexibility and efficiency, ultimately improving service delivery to students, staff and external parties."
Consolidation and Cloud Koh said by Using Juniper Networks QFabric, UniMAP will be able consolidate about 100 existing servers onto a few high-capacity blade servers that have been sized to run up to 200 virtual machines, delivering a further reduction in power consumption and space requirements to support exiting services.
She added that the QFX3000-M QFabric System provided scope for UniMAP to scale its data centre operation to well over 30 times its current size.
This data centre headroom can be used by UniMAP for new e-services, teaching purposes, research using high-performance computing and even for the possibility of providing cloud hosting services to local government departments in the state of Perlis, said Koh.
UniMAP, which has about 6,000 students and more than 1,700 academic and non-academic staff, focuses on electronics-based engineering and related fields and is also the hub of eight specialist research clusters.
Green Data Center Will Enable UniMAP To Slash OpEx While Turbocharging Digital Service Delivery And Boosting Research Capabilities
Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) is building a new data center around Juniper Networks® MetaFabric™ architecture to help maintain its lead as the country’s top technical university. The new facility, due to be fully operational by February 2015, will enable UniMAP to dramatically reduce the environmental footprint and operational costs of its data center operations while enhancing service delivery to students, staff and external parties.
With around 6,000 students and more than 1,700 academic and non-academic staff, UniMAP has a strong focus on electronics-based engineering and related fields and is the hub of eight specialist research clusters. Ranked second overall among the country’s public universities by the Malaysian Qualifications agency, UniMAP believes that using the latest technology in classrooms, research labs, and administration helps to attract bright students, sought-after faculty members and increased research funding. The Juniper Networks QFabric® System being deployed within UniMAP’s new data center is the first in Malaysia.
http://www.juniper.net/as/en/company/press-center/press-releases/2015/pr_2015_02_05-00_00.page