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Past Strategic Choices
• Reaching a base line of support andinfrastructure
• Catching up to our peers• “Building the plane as we fly it”• Giving priority to faculty and students• Providing robust - but not world class -
services
Future Strategic Choices
• Administrative computing focused on SIS & HR systems fornext 5 – 7 years
• Organization more team-based; less of a top-down structure• Pay attention to disruptive technologies
– Supporting small mobile devices– VoIP
• Ensure improvements in IT Security by setting expectations atall levels of the organization
Columbia University: Past/Strategic Decisions
- Use of open, free software in core AcIS systems- Lots of small servers for redundancy
- Wire University-owned apartments “in-house”- Unrestricted DHCP access
- PeopleSoft- Kerberos/LDAP for authentication/authorization
- Columbia’s jump into digital media in 1999
Columbia University: Future Directions
- Centralization/Decentralization of servers/services- Voice/Data network convergence
- Better consolidation of support and better integrationof central IT with decentralized IT (or not)
- Open source course management with in-houselearning modules and content management
- Continue university ISP/host services?- Enhanced/blended in-house and free-market services
Past Strategic Choices
• PeopleSoft– Project 2000 baggage
• NUBB, NetPrint• “Shoot ourselves in the foot” cost recovery
models• Napster: letting students decide• NW Registry: tying MAC to a person
Future Strategic Choices
• Use of IP infrastructure for– IPTV– VoIP
• Data center optimization– Consolidation, virtualization– Increased flexibility– Vendor agnostic: hardware diminishes in importance
• Security– Network Quarantine– Spyware, antivirus, etc.
• Mobile computing• Central file server• Participation in Higher Ed. Open Source Initiatives like Kuali
Stanford – IT Leaders Program
Program Participants• Tom Cramer• Tilak Dhar• Jim Knox• Nan McKenna• Bruce Vincent
Past Strategic Choices
• Client Relations and Service Focus– Operational Excellence– Software development methodology
• Business Focus– Standardized business processes and ERP’s– Find an organizational structure that works
• Technology Focus– Commodity platforms– Single user namespace– Clustered/scalable platforms
Future Strategic Choices
• Client Relations and Service Focus– Attractive and ‘transparent’ services– Client facing metrics
• Business Focus– IT Governance– Talent management– IP and DRM
• Technology Focus– Segmented network (role based)– Enterprise-leveraged research computing– Federated identity management
Past Strategic Choices• Convergence of Telecomm, Academic and Administrative
computing centers
• Strengthening Partnerships Across Campus
• Creation of service teams – emphasison collaboration
• Organizational restructuring– Creation of Academic Technology Solutions, Network Services
and Internet Enterprise Solutions
• Vendor partnerships / open source associations
• 21st century network initiative