Staff/faculty expressed opinions about IT in summer town halls and other campus events

There is great enthusiasm for central IT services that are highly reliable, affordable, and which reduce redundancy and increase innovation. Over 80% are confident about the future success of IT.

Attendees were particularly interested in the following products and services:

Tiered file storage solutions, universal wireless, mobile computing solutions, enhanced desktop virtualization, and shared calendaring

We’ve already started responding. (read more)

We are behind our peers in some critical areas. There’s much to do.

Your feedback helped us narrow our focus to three strategic areas in 2010:

The university has slipped behind its peers in providing high performance computer clusters, collaboration tools and mobile computing solutions. Funding is limited. To be competitive, we must address structure, spending, funding, and services as they relate to IT on campus. Building a world class cyberinfrastructure is an imperative requirement for supporting the university’s five-year, $30 million initiative to increase the focus on teaching and research across disciplines.

These are the areas where ITS will focus on in 2010:

• IT Rationalization – data driven strategy for making the best decisions about IT spending at the university (read more)

• Shared Infrastructure – this will decrease storage costs, increase collaborative potential, and move us closer to meeting advanced research computing needs (read more)

• Shared Products and Services – we won’t lose sight of critical applications and services planned before our reorganization, such as DART and CTools (read more)