Chancellor's Fall Conference

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Information Technology as a Critical
Enabler Peter M. Siegel CIO and Vice
Provost Information and Educational Technology
Office of Research External Advisory Board
Nov. 02, 2007
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Student recruitment
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Staying in touch

• Nicole Woolsey BiggartDean, Graduate School of
  Management
• Experiences on a journey to Europe and the
  Middle East
• Egghead Blog about research by, with or related
  to UC Davis

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I.T. is Strategic
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KeckCAVES
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Cluster Computing
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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
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SmartSiteKern Holoman MUS 10
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Leadership in a Knowledge EconomyNSF Report
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Education Building William Blaisdell MD
Medical Library
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Introducing the iPhone
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I.T. as an Ecosystem
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The Dark Side
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Communitydriven Models
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Student Collaboration
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2058 UC Davis Celebrates 150 Years!
Watch it again Chancellors Centennial Speech
(09/24/08)
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UC Davis Flash Mob (02/07)

• A flash mob is a large group of people who
  assemble suddenly in a public place, do something
  unusual for a brief period of time, then quickly
  disperse. (Wikipedia)

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Some UC Davis IT Strategic Initiatives

1. UC Davis course management and collaboration
2. Chancellors fall conference
3. IT administrative services roadmap initiative
4. Telecommunications strategic directions
5. Data center planning
6. IT Guidance Committee

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1. Course Management Collaborationvpiet.ucdavis
.edu/smartsite.cfm

• SmartSite is based on Sakai, an international
  consortium of universities and commercial
  partners
• Community source software
• Alternative to proprietary and home-grown course
  management solutions
• Piloted 2005-07 offered to the campus fall 2007

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Course Management Collaboration (cont.)
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Course Management Collaboration (cont.)

• Usage
• 22,953 unique users
• 1,000 simultaneous users peak
• Most asked-for features
• Guest access
• (w/o UC Davis identification)
• Grading options flexibility
• Quizzing options flexibility
• Course evaluations
• Feeds of known groups (grad students, department
  faculty
• or students)
• Site creation improvements for teaching assistants

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Course Management Collaboration (cont.)

• Looking Ahead
• Integration with Adobe Connect Pro
• Library Citation Interface (incl. ArtStor)
• Next Release Upgrade June 2008 (R. 2.5)
• MyUCDavis CMS retirement Fall 2008
• Faculty Advisory Committee

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2. Chancellors Fall Conferencevpiet.ucdavis.edu/
fallconference.cfm

• September 16-18
• Faculty, students, staff, administrators
• IT as a vehicle for innovation
• 5 break-out sessions reports

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Chancellors Fall Conference (cont.)

• Follow-up committee
• Chair AVC Bernd Hamann
• Faculty, staff, students
• Two work products
• 5-year vision
• Action plan
• Nov. 07 - Jan. 08
• Reports to Provost and CIO
• Web site
• Reports
• Presentations, podcasts

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3. IT Administrative Services Roadmapvpiet.ucdavi
s.edu/itroadmap.cfm
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IT Administrative Services Roadmap (cont.)
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4. Telecommunications Strategic Directions

• UC Davis has a reputation as a research
  university "on the move"
• Successfully recruited world-class faculty with
  recognized research and graduate strengths in the
  use of computational resources
• Makes an agile, effective support infrastructure
  a priority
• Critical network issues
• Existence of hard stops
• Competition for infrastructure funding
• Academic programs increasingly technology
  dependent

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Telecommunications Strategic Directions (cont.)
The hard stops
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Telecommunications Strategic Directions (cont.)
Options
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Telecommunications Strategic Directions (cont.)

• Recommended option UCDNet3
• Focuses on delivery of services to a range of
  targeted locations and constituents
• Upgrade path to accommodate enhanced services
  campuswide
• Wireless network coverage throughout the core
  campus
• VoIP and voice-over-wireless services are
  standard offerings
• Enhanced network services for a significant
  subset of users and locations on campus

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Telecommunications Strategic Directions (cont.)
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Telecommunications Strategic Directions (cont.)
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Telecommunications Strategic Directions (cont.)
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5. Data Center Planning

• Current data center has nearly reached its
  functional capacity
• 3600 sq. feet machine room
• 78 total racks
• Space remaining for 11 racks
• Need facility to
• Accommodate high density computing clusters and
  collocation departmental servers
• Serve different computing uses
• Administrative academic computing
• High-performance computing
• UCDMC collocation (disaster recovery/business
  continuity)
• Departmental collocation of servers
• UC-wide disaster recovery etc.

High-density server rack
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Data Center Planning (cont.)

• Phase I (2006-2007)
• Approx. 20 racks
• Provide the infrastructure to fully use existing
  Data Center machine room space
• Phase II (2007-2010)
• Approx. 24 racks
• Use multiple strategies to accommodate need until
  longer-term solution is available
• Phase III (2010-2015)
• Longer-term solution (facility) is available
• 100-280 racks (13K sq-25K sq)

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Data Center Planning (cont.)

• Project Black Box

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6. IT Guidance Committeewww.universityofcaliforni
a.edu/itgc

• UC executive leaders, faculty, librarians, and
  CIOs
• Consultative, UC-wide planning process
• Identify and recommend strategic directions to
  guide investments in IT and the academic
  information environment
• UC Davis involvement
• IT Leadership Council Pete Siegel
• Bernd Hamann, Office of Research
• Mike Hogarth, Chair, Senate IT Committee John
  Oakley, Professor, Law School, Chair Academic
  Senate
• Peter Yellowlees, UC Davis Health System

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IT Guidance Committee (cont.)
Draft recommendations
UC-wide governance and funding models will ensure
ongoing planning, review and alignment of IT
investment goals of the campuses and University.
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IT Guidance Committee (cont.)

• Infrastructure
• Invest in network connectivity
• Plan for the next generation UC data center
  infrastructure
• Deploy IT-enabled collaboration tools to the
• UC community

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IT Guidance Committee (cont.)

• Services
• Develop UC grid research computing services
• Create the capacity to manage our digital assets
• Cultivate organizational leadership for
  instructional technology and IT in the student
  experience

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Information technology as a critical enabler

• Thank you.
• vpiet.ucdavis.edu