UTFAB Summary Presentation

Patrick J. Burns

Vice President for IT

March 19, 2007

I. Central IT at CSU -- How Are We Doing in IT Relative to Our Peers?

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Burns’ Assessment

National ranking of 42 on “Most Wired” list three years ago

Increasingly lagging (now > 100): Wireless coverage Classroom technology

GA classrooms, departmental rooms + UFFAB Learning technology, especially next generation eLearning

technology (see following slides) Support of faculty for instruction

We “refresh” hardware on a regular cycle, but how do we “refresh” faculty?

Why?

The Value Judgment- A Central Fee Comparison - Central Technology Fees at Peer Institutions

Texas A&M: $225.60/semester ($18.80/cr) North Carolina State University: $175/sem (~$14.58/cr) Iowa State University: $106/semester (~$8.83/cr) Arizona State University: $100/semester (flat rate) Oregon State University: $100/semester (~$8.33/cr) University of Colorado, Boulder: $65.60/sem (flat rate) Oklahoma State University: $60/semester ($5/cr) Colorado State University: $15/semester (flat rate)Note: Assumes 12 credits/semester | Census Date: Jan. 16, 2007

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ACNS “Before & After” – Trends in Growth of Services

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Informal Survey of Peers- Central IT Staff

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Informal Survey of Peers- Central IT $$$Avg/CSU = $4.41:$1

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ACNS Systems Services – 2000

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8 Servers

Vines CSUNTS CSUNTS2

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ACNS Systems Services – Jan. 2006

30 Unix Servers 43 Windows Servers

LAMAR

DELTA

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SILT DURANGOCALHANHUGOMESA

LYONS HOOPERHOWARDRYEGRANBY

BOND RIFLE

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QASMOBILEMAIL.HALLSYAMPA

Core End-User Services

System Administration / Backups/Archival/Logging/Monitoring

WebCT

SPAM/Virus Control

Miscellaneous

LITE

DAE

PORTALCAL

RAMPOINT

RamPoint Portal

CSUNTS

File/Print/Domain Controller/Monitoring

CSUNTS2 CSUNTS3

CSUNTS4 CSUNTS5

RUSH HASTY

WSPROD WSDEV

BOONE

OVID

ACNSWSA ACNSWSB

AGATE

COPEBASALTOURAY

UNION

LUMINISDB

ACNSBBSTATUS

BDGOVS

CLM SEVIS BFSSQL

UPSPP

HPASERVER

KCSUSTREAM CTVSERVER

STUMEDIANTS

MOLE

Web/SQL/eID/RAMWeb

Video Streaming Services

Exchange/Blackberry

Miscellaneous/Unique Function Servers/Dept. Servers

Test Forest

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ACNS Networking – 2000

Internet

OC-3

Modem pool

5 routers, 1 ATM switch

Internet2

16K computers

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ACNS Networking – Jan. 2006

Internet Internet2

National LambdaRail

Gigabit Gigabit

Fort Collins Community

Network

Bison North

Bison South

PacketShapers

BorderFirewall

300APs

VPN

Video Conf.VoIP

Surveillance City and County Life &

Safety

28K computersMonitor

1,400 devices

CoreRouters

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ACNS Staffing –“Before and After”

2000 Jan. 2006

34 FTE, 33 Centrally 29 FTE, 22 Centrally

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II. A Look Into the “IT” Future “The farther we look into the past, the further

we can look into the future.” – W. Churchill

“Prediction is so difficult, especially about the future.” N. Bohr

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The Next-Gen eLearning Environment(after Jafari, McGee, and Carmean, “Managing courses, defining learning,” EDUCAUSE Review, pp. 50-70, July/Aug. 2006.

Wikis &Blogs

CollaborationGroups

CMS/LMS

ePortfolio

Course sites,Hybrid courses,Online courses

Public site, &Access req’d

Communication,Presence

My Profile

RSS/web services

Certified objects,Misc. objects,Peer review

Social groups,Professional groups

SocialNetworking

DAM,LifelongRepository

Presence,Podcasting,Video on demand,Real-time video

ProfessionalNetworking

MyIntelligentAgent

Bb eCollegeMerlotAngel YouTubefacebookflickr more…

III. SIS Hardware Request

SIS Hardware

Goal Banner go live in Fall 2007 – address performance issues

due to hardware Hardware will be 4 years old in FY 08

Upgrade decision process Load testing Consultation with other institutions running Banner in

production Both identified our back-end database server as a

“choke point” Solution – upgrade hardware, and dedicate to Banner

SIS Architecture Upgrade “Before” “After” Oracle DB

#1 - SIS

Back-end“All” OracleApplications

Oracle DB

Server

Banner

Application

Portal/

RAMweb

Internet

Oracle DB

#2 – Other

Banner

Application

Portal/

RAMweb

Internet

Cost Itemization

Item Cost ($) IBM p560Q (discounted) $94,000 HMC (software) $5,000 Fiber switch $10,000 Rack $4,725 Disk $52,000 Oracle license $180,000 Total $345,725 UTFAB Request (50%) $172,862

IV. FY08 Requests

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Reminder

There is sufficient money to do a lot of “good”

Remember that you represent your constituents, so your votes should be for “the greater good”

In addition to the UTFAB criteria, you may wish to consider managing your portfolio so risks are appropriate

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Funding Request

See separate spreadsheet Process

1. Discuss funding levels for individual projects

2. Discuss which projects should be “off the table”

3. Prioritize remaining projects and rank order

4. Discuss funding levels

Recommendation from Advisor No increase in UTF for FY 08 Rather, prioritize projects

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Thank You

I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today as I strive to determine if our IT environment is Aligned with your expectations and pocketbooks

I very much welcome your feedback