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The UC Davis IT Infrastructure Futures Group

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Between now and the Fall of 2011, this group will work to ensure a robust, standards-based, highly-interoperable infrastructure that fosters innovate services and applications in support of the University's missions of research, education, and public service, both now and in the future.

The group will:

  • identify components of our IT infrastructure that warrant attention to specific issues,
  • create subgroups to analyze alternative approaches to address those issues,
  • vet potential approaches with DTC, TIF, and appropriate TIF subcommittees, and
  • recommend a preferred approach to the CIO.

Our goal is to produce a set of recommendations to the CIO by September 1, 2011.  After the first meeting in May, we will allow about six weeks for the subgroups to complete their work, then schedule 3-4 meetings approximately every two weeks to synthesize our final recommendations.

Background Materials

ITIF Subgroups

Minutes and next steps

The groups identified are as follows:
1. Access (LDAP, IAM, AD, DNS, DHCP, Certificates, Federation, Security, etc.)
2. Network (, wiring, wireless, 802.1x, certificates, security, firewall, VPN, , etc.)
3. Collaboration (rSmart/SmartSite, Sharepoint, Email, Calendar, uConnect/Lync, Data Warehouse, A/V services, Web CMS, eDOC light, etc.)
4. Organization (Documentation, training, service catalog, funding models, etc.)
5. Computer services (Remote desktop, desktop and server virtualization, mobile framework, cloud computing, database services, etc.)

Please find yourself on list of participants (below), indicating your chosen group; however, feel free to change or include others as you see fit. Please notify the group list if you have changes.

Immediate Next Steps:

1. I will organize a 90 min. meeting for entire workgroup for the beginning of August. During this meeting each focus group will be given 15 minutes to present their findings and recommendations for review and discussion by the entire group. If we need additional time to review we can decide to regroup at a later time.

2. Groups: Please contact your co-participants and organize yourselves in the groups specified. Please pick a leader/spokesperson, arrange and attend your meetings, and develop your documents (bullets, paragraphs, etc.) that will be complete enough to be reviewed by the entire team and will be used to develop the final Findings and Recommendations white paper to be presented to Pete Siegel, per our charge.

Membership

Curtis Bray
Bob Brewer
Pam Davis
Paul Drobny
Adam Getchell

Rodger Hess
Karen Latora
Morna Mellor
Chip Mrizek
Minh Nguyen
Bob Ono

Hemang Patel
Jeremy Phillips
Michele Platten
Ben Ransom
Mark Redican

Uwe Rossbach
Jatinder Singh
Paul Singh
Lowell Valiant
David Walker
Tom Wiley