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?
Burns’ Assessment
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National ranking of 42 on “Most Wired” list three
years ago
Increasingly lagging (now > 100):
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Wireless coverage
Classroom technology
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Learning technology, especially next generation eLearning
technology (see following slides)
Support of faculty for instruction
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GA classrooms, departmental rooms + UFFAB
We “refresh” hardware on a regular cycle, but how do we
“refresh” faculty?
Why?
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The Value Judgment
- A Central Fee Comparison 
Central Technology Fees at Peer Institutions
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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
Informal Survey of Peers- Central IT Staff
Avg/CSU = 4.30:1
Normalized Staff
0.90%
FTE-Staff/FTE-Student
0.80%
0.70%
0.60%
0.50%
0.40%
0.30%
0.20%
0.10%
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Informal Survey of Peers- Central IT $$$
Avg/CSU = $4.41:$1
Normalized Expenditures
$1,400
$/FTE-Student-yr.
$1,200
$1,000
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ACNS Systems Services – 2000
Yuma
Lamar
Vines
Holly
CSUNTS
Eagle
Delta
CSUNTS2
8 Servers
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ACNS Systems Services – Jan. 2006
Core End-User Services
Video Streaming Services
File/Print/Domain Controller/Monitoring
WebCT
OURAY BASALT COPE
CSUNTS CSUNTS2 CSUNTS3
LAMAR
YUMA HOLLY EAGLE
SIMLA
BOND
RIFLE
Exchange/Blackberry
CSUNTS4 CSUNTS5 BDGOVS
System Administration / Backups/Archival/Logging/Monitoring
RUSH
HASTY
UNION ACNSBB
STATUS
Web/SQL/eID/RAMWeb
SILT MESA HUGO CALHAN DURANGO DELTA
Test Forest
WSPROD WSDEV OVID AGATE
LYONS GRANBY RYE HOWARD HOOPER
BOONE ACNSWSA ACNSWSB
SPAM/Virus Control
RamPoint Portal
Miscellaneous/Unique Function Servers/Dept. Servers
PARK GILL WARD ERIE ESTES
RAMPOINT
DAE
UPSPP KCSUSTREAM CTVSERVER
Miscellaneous
CLM STUMEDIANTS
SEVIS
BFSSQL
PORTALCAL LITE
YAMPA MAIL.HALLS MOBILE QAS
30 Unix Servers
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MOLE
HPASERVER LUMINISDB
43 Windows Servers
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ACNS Networking – 2000
Internet
Modem
pool
OC-3
16K computers
Internet2
5 routers, 1
ATM switch
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ACNS Networking – Jan. 2006
Internet
Internet2
National Lambda
Rail
Gigabit
Bison
North
Fort Collins
Community
Network
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Gigabit
Packet
VPN
Shapers
300
28K computers
APs
Monitor
Border
Firewall 1,400 devices
VoIP
Video Conf.
Core
Surveillance
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Bison
South
City and
County Life &
Safety
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ACNS Staffing –“Before and After”
2000
Jan. 2006
34 FTE, 33 Centrally
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29 FTE, 22 Centrally
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II. A Look Into the “IT” Future
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“The farther we look into the past, the further
we can look into the future.” – W. Churchill
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“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.
Course sites,
Hybrid courses,
Online courses
CMS/LMS
Wikis &
Blogs
Communication,
Presence
My
Intelligent
Agent
My Profile
Certified objects,
Misc. objects,
Peer review
ePortfolio
DAM,
Lifelong
Repository
Collaboration
Groups
Public site, &
Access req’d
Presence,
Podcasting,
Video on demand,
Real-time video
Social groups,
Professional groups
Professional
Networking
Social
Networking
RSS/web services
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Angel
facebook
Merlot
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III. SIS Hardware Request
SIS Hardware
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Goal
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Upgrade decision process
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Banner go live in Fall 2007 – address performance issues
due to hardware
Hardware will be 4 years old in FY 08
Load testing
Consultation with other institutions running Banner in
production
Both identified our back-end database server as a
“choke point”
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Solution – upgrade hardware, and dedicate to Banner
SIS Architecture Upgrade
“Before”
Oracle DB
Server
Back-end
“All” Oracle
Applications
“After”
Oracle DB
Oracle DB
#1 - SIS
#2 – Other
Banner
Banner
Application
Application
Portal/
Portal/
RAMweb
RAMweb
Internet
Internet
Cost Itemization
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Item
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IBM p560Q (discounted)
HMC (software)
Fiber switch
Rack
Disk
Oracle license
Total
UTFAB Request (50%)
Cost ($)
$94,000
$5,000
$10,000
$4,725
$52,000
$180,000
$345,725
$172,862
IV. FY08 Requests
Reminder
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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
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See separate spreadsheet
Process
Discuss funding levels for individual projects
Discuss which projects should be “off the
table”
Prioritize remaining projects and rank order
Discuss funding levels
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Recommendation from Advisor
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No increase in UTF for FY 08
Rather, prioritize projects
Thank You
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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
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I very much welcome your feedback
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