IT Structure, Governance

& Research Initiatives

Tom Delaney , Vice President, Chief Global Technology Officer, NYU

September 22nd, 2015 CANS

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1st Global Network University 10,000 + courses

6 continents, Over 350 top world prizes, fellowships, honors

3 degree granting portals,

11 study away sites, 9 research institutes2

NYU – A Truly Global University

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• IT Organizational Structure

• IT Decision-making Structures and Processes

• Management of University IT Budgeting for Operations and Development

• IT coordination and collaboration with other university departments divisions

• Research Initiatives

Table of Contents

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• IT Organizational Structure

• IT Decision-making Structures and Processes

• Management of University IT Budgeting for Operations and Development

• IT coordination and collaboration with other university departments divisions

• Research Initiatives

Table of Contents

NYU IT Office of VPs (OVPs)

Delaney & McMillan

.edu Services(.edu)

Ackerman

Teaching & Learning with Technology

(TLT)Maddox

Technology Operations

Services(TOS)

Carlson / Samaan

Service, Security & Compliance

(SSC)

Bridges

OVPs Resource

Management Services Tretner

OVPs Strategy & IT

Governance

Stewart

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NYU IT Organization Chart

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• IT Organizational Structure

• IT Decision-making Structures and Processes

• Management of University IT Budgeting for Operations and Development

• IT coordination and collaboration with other university departments divisions

• Research Initiatives

Table of Contents

Community Life

(Brown, chair)

Research

(Horn, chair)

Teaching &

Learning

(Santirocco, chair)

Administration

(Dorph, chair)

IT Infrastructure (including, e.g., connectivity, phones, shared services, ServiceLink)

(Delaney, McMillan. co-chairs)

IT Strategy Group

McLaughlin, Dorph, co-chairs

Members: IT Governance Group Chairs

Quarterly IT Review

for Provost & EVP FIT

IT Architecture

Review Board

(Horn, chair)

IT Governance keeps IT strategy aligned with NYU strategy

Overview: IT Governance

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Overview: Annual IT Governance Cycle

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Innovation Fund Process For New Year:

• Upcoming year evaluation, planning &

prioritization

• Initial IT Innovation Fund sources &

potential uses analysis is completed.

• Results are ready for consultation with

EVP FIT & Provost, in preparation for

review by full IT Strategy Group.

September 2, 2015

Overview: IT Innovation Fund

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Annual IT Innovation Fund Principles

- A systematic approach to identifying & managing

annual funding capacity.

- Consideration of preexisting innovation, emerging

mission critical & service improvement investments.

- Stakeholders identify & prioritize emerging needs &

address recommendations identified by IT

governance groups.

Funding Sources

Committed & Mission Critical

Investments

Additional Stakeholder

Priorities

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• IT Organizational Structure

• IT Decision-making Structures and Processes

• Management of University IT Budgeting for Operations and Development

• IT coordination and collaboration with other university departments divisions

• Research Initiatives

Table of Contents

NYU IT Collaborating Workgroup Examples

EXAMPLES OVPs .edu TLT TOS SSC

1. Services Coordinating Group (Service Strategy, Service Rollout coordination)

√ √ √ √ ★

2. IT Architecture Group (ITAG) √ ★ √ √ √

3. Global Networking Initiative Team (expand)(Plan & manage the global network)

√ ★ √

4. Emergency Response Coord Team (reconstitute)(Coordinate emergency preparedness & management)

√ √ √ ★ √

5. Identity Management Virtual Team (Plan & coordinate all identity management activities, e.g.,

Registry, SSO, LDAP, RADIUS, Active Directory, etc.)

★ √ √

6. User Experience Working Group(Find opportunities to improve client experience with NYU IT )

√ √ √ √ ★

7. Staff Experience Working Group (Find opportunities to improve NYU IT staff satisfaction)

★ √ √ √ √

8. Cloud Services Coordination Team (Coordinate cloud services acquisition, contracting,

provisioning, monitoring)

√ ★ √ ★ √

Key: ★ Leads this coordinating activity √ Participates in this coordinating activity.

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• IT Organizational Structure

• IT Decision-making Structures and Processes

• Management of University IT Budgeting for Operations and Development

• IT coordination and collaboration with other university departments divisions

• Research Initiatives

Table of Contents

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• NYU's research community indicated that it wished to collaborate with the other research

universities in our regions; not just with NYU schools and sites.

• A global community of practice followed, developed largely through the cooperation of

universities and the national research networks throughout the world.

With NYU Sites Established, Demand for

Intra-University Connectivity Spiked

The Research Networks of the World are Interconnecting

Through an Emerging Open Exchange Architecture

Far East R&E

Open ExchangeArabian R&E

Open Exchange

European R&E

Open Exchange North American

R&E

Open Exchange

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• NYU Shanghai needs to access HPC resources in NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi to support its

rapidly evolving programs in:

- Computational Chemistry

- Computational Biology

- Deep Learning

- Other Fields

• BuTinah, at NYU Abu Dhabi, the largest high-performance computer in the UAE, supports 70 teraflops of computational power.

• NYU-NY links an active research community with its 16 teraflops of HPC capacity.

NYU’s Research Need For Network / High-Performance Computing

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NYU Is But A Small Part of the Emerging Global Research Story

The R&E community is now beginning to connect across borders• Universities are working together

• National boundaries are being overcome through open connectivity

• Networks and high-performance computing capacity are being leveraged collaboratively

The results in the past five years are amazing

A few success stories in the following areas:

• Medicine

• Genomics

• Chemistry

• Energy

• Climate

• Cyber security

• Physics

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Advances in GenomicsIndiana University, CERNET and Internet2

• Twenty-four GB of genomic data, a collaboration of Indiana University, CERNET, and Internet2 (2012).

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Advances in GenomicsNew York University Abu Dhabi – Butinah HPC

• Comparison of samples from next generation sequencing

• Networks and protein function and structure

• Computational methods for analyzing the interactions of microRNAs (miRNAs) with their mRNA targets in atomic detail

• The 100 Date Palm Project -- uncovers the origins of date palms through sequencing the DNA of 100 varieties of date

palms

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• The Center for Global Sea-level Change (CSLC) at NYU Abu Dhabi published a paper in Nature that found one of the most sensitive

and critical areas of the Earth’s ice in West Antarctica is being affected by changes in the North and Tropical Atlantic, and has been

warming for over 30 years. They are doing research that will develop the capability to project sea-level change for the next century

and beyond. Significant sea-level change in the next century could have a huge impact on low-lying coastal areas.

• Oceanic boundary conditions for Jakobshavn Glacier

• Variability and renewal of Ilulissat Icefjord Waters

• Provenance and sources of variability of Disko Bay

• The Centre for Prototype Climate Modeling (CPCM) uses Butinah

for projects such as Indian Summer Monsoon Studies

Advances in Climate Change ResearchNYU Center for Global Sea-Level Change Research (CSLC), NYU-AD

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• A study of the corals in the Arabian/Persian Gulf that survive extreme sea temperatures (summer mean: >34 C). It is unclear whether

these corals have genetically adapted or physiologically acclimated to these conditions. The study will compare corals on reefs within

the thermally-extreme Persian/Arabian Gulf with those in the neighboring Gulf of Oman.

Affects Of Climate On Coral GrowthNYU-AD

“Although the Gulf is relatively isolated, it is a young reef. In ecology,

there is the concept that genetic specialization takes time. The

older the reef, the more specialized the genes become. This is

because as cells pass on their DNA in a given area, the genes best

suited to that area persist and amplify in a species.

So while the reef is isolated (promoting specialization), it is young

(making specialization less likely). These two factors make it unclear

if genetic specialization as happened.”

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Network costs can be reduced by:

• Entering Open Exchange Points where carriers

compete for network services

• Developing Co-location Partnerships with other

universities and research networks to build a sustainable

business model

• Establishing a Global Network Infrastructure

• Mix/match network services with the most cost-

effective carriers in a quick, agile, and inexpensive

manner

Summary

We have adopted our successful co-location model of the NYU South-Data Center in the

Far East (Singapore). Other strategic exchange points will follow.