UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
SPRC/09/XX
STRATEGY, PERFORMANCE AND RESOURCES COMMITTEE,
DUAL ASSURANCE REPORT: Information Services. Dual Assurance Meeting September 2009
Item Description
IT Policies
Supercomputing
Considerations/Evidence/Consultation
•
•
Reviewed policies for Wireless
network; use of Skype and User
Computing Policy.
Considered business case for
replacing current supercomputing
facilities and options for providing this
service in the future.
Decision/Recommendation Implementer
(with reasons)
All policies signed off.
Encouragement to promote
use of Skype more widely as
a productivity and carbonlowering facility.
Sharing this service with
either the Met Office or other
universities recommended
as the most flexible and
lower risk strategy.
Further Information
MW
MIS
MW to pass to SW
Supercomputing paper
and seek further
comment.
Paper making case for
Supercomputing
replacement to be put to
VCEG for consideration of
the possible strategic
alliance with the Met Office.
T2V2
•
•
•
Overviewed priorities for the
information Services stream of the
T2V2 work.
Stressed the need to emphasise the
importance of underpinning IT
infrastructure to support the
University’s strategic goals, particularly
growing research capacity.
Noted likely overall T2V2 envelope and
the pressure this will create to hone the
MW / MIS
MW to pass to SW T2V2
papers and seek further
comment.
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
SPRC/09/XX
STRATEGY, PERFORMANCE AND RESOURCES COMMITTEE,
IT Risk
management
•
IT Strategy
•
•
Network Upgrade
Project
Dual Assurance
operating Plan
•
aspirations for IT capital investment.
Discussed risk review process for IT.
Process now quite mature, with all
risks reviewed 6 weekly and feed into
AS risk register.
Reviewed status of IT Strategy.
Now a good document that needs
wider dissemination.
Noted progress with network
implementation.
• Noted challenges presented by
asbestos work in many buildings and
how the costs of this are impacting the
project.
Some changes made to Dual Assurance
Operating Plan.
Risk register noted.
Agreed to propose a briefing
session for Russell Seal to
outline IT Strategy and talk
through ICSD services.
MW
Agreed to seek to build a
case for a University
response to the asbestos
issues faced in buildings.
MIS/MW
MW
MW presenting strategy
to PSMG
MW to add explicit list of
IT projects to IT Strategy
Appendix.
MW to issue revised dual
assurance operating plan
to Planning Dept.