Blackboard was Down 8 p.m. on 1/24 to 10 a.m. on 1/25
for a hardware upgrade that improved performance for the traditionally busier Spring semester, the UMBC Blackboard server was down from 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, to 10 a.m. Wednesday, January 25. This did not affect Winter Blackboard courses which were running on a separate Blackboard server.
OIT uprading(sic... really upgraded but we also upRAIDed our storage to a raid 50) the Blackboard application database environment to complement the Jan. 13 software upgrade. We had hoped to complete both upgrades on the 13th, but delays in receiving the hardware, configuring and adequately testing it required a second downtime before Spring classes start.