Presentation to Senior Management Team24th October 2008

UCD IT Services

IT Strategy 2009 - 2013

IT Strategy Project Status

Detailed review of IT Requirements ( 2007/08 )

Discussion & Consultation Document ( May 2008 )

“Draft IT Strategy 2009-13”

Open Consultation Sessions ( June 2008 )

Presentations to College Executives & Staff

SMT Project Board Review – Sept 2008

Review and consultation with UCD Strategy Projects

Final Draft Strategy Document & Presentation to SMT

Detailed 3 year plans & costings

Current IT Position vs. 2002

Campus Network expanded from 8,000 points to 25,000

Key services meeting 99.5% availability

Research IT - data centre, compute clusters & storage

Agreed standardisation of classroom technology

Extensive use of portal and eLearning services

Laptop and mobile users are the norm Achieved through investment in IT Architecture and Systems over the past 5 years – EU 3 mil per annum

UCD Connect “Daily Users” Sept 2008

Student feedback on IT in education

80% own Laptops 90% use Blackboard

82% say IT makes doing my courses more

convenient versus 67% in US sample

64% say IT in my courses improves my

learning versus 46% in US sample

60% say most / all of my instructors use IT well

in courses versus 44% in US sample

Staff use of research computing

UCD has class A project on ICHEC Blue Gene Sept. 2008 Dr. Marcus Greferath

Daedalus hosts equipment for 24 Research P.I.s Community & Shared Cluster used by 60

projects Large Storage provided to 14 P.I.s

UCD Researchers include most active on ICHEC ( 2007 ) Dr. Stephen O'Sullivan (astrophysics) - 1,427,158 CPU-hours

Dr. Gareth O'Brien (Geology & Geophysics) - 489,733 CPU-hours

Daedalus Data Centre Growth

ICHEC / UCD Cluster will add 16 racks in October 2008, using extended space.

Teaching Favoured

Teaching Only

Research Driven

Teaching & ResearchBalanced

Cyber Infrastructure & University Mission

“ The organised aggregate of information technologies that can be coordinated to address problems in science and

society ”

Use cyber-infrastructure intensively

Large Storage

Data Management

Advanced Networks

Virtual Collaboration

High End Compute

70% do not use cyber-infrastructure

Infrastructure divide based on University Mission

Projected expansion 2008-2012

50,000 1,000 TB

150 35,000100+

25,000 25,00020,000

8,000 20100 TB

Network Points Compute Laptops Storage IT in Classrooms Users

5 x Key Initiatives

1. Sustaining the IT infrastructure & IT performance

2. Enhancing the user experience and access to

information

3. Building a collaborative Data Centre & Data Storage

4. Implementing Classroom Technology & Learning

spaces

5. Growing eContent and Data Management skills

IT Plan 2009

Customer Service Health Checks, Information Sessions, Training

User Experience Web Interfaces, Portal Design, Search

Information & Electronic Content MIS, eContent, Data & Content Management

Infrastructure & Architecture Capacity, Storage, 24x7 Availability, Monitoring