Welcome to the Office of theChief Information Officer
IT Governance Updates
05/11/2012
MyEdu - The University has adopted the Schedule Planner and Course Transfer tools of the MyEdu suite.
04/23/2012
LIFT - LONGHORN INNOVATION FUND FOR TECHNOLOGY CALL FOR PROPOSALS NOW OPEN!!!
04/16/2012
Laptop Encryption - 93% of UT laptops are currently encrypted.
04/16/2012
ASMP - The roadmaps to support the Administrative System Master Plan are currently under construction.
04/16/2012
LIFT Launch - The call for proposals for the Longhorn Innovation Fund for Technology will launch on April 19. An event to celebrate the launch will be held from 2:30-4:00 p.m. in ACES 2.402. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
03/12/2012
Box.net - UT will engage in a pilot of Internet 2 or Box.net.
03/12/2012
Endorsements - SITAB endorsed the Administrative Master System Plan and the approach for VoIP implementation on campus.
03/12/2012
Endorsed - The Strategic Information Technology Advisory Board endorsed the Administrative System Master Plan.
03/12/2012
LIFT - The proposal guidelines for the Longhorn Innovation Fund for Technology are currently under review.
02/28/2012
Cloud File Sharing Task Force - The Charter for the Cloud File Sharing Task Force has been developed and the search is on for task force members.
02/28/2012
Administrative System Master Plan and VoIP - The OIT Committee endorsed the Administrative System Master Plan and the Approach to VoIP.
02/28/2012
Administrative System Master Plan - The Business Services Committee will take the Administrative System Master Plan to the Strategic IT Advisory Board.
02/28/2012
Auditorium WiFi - Planning has begun to expand WiFi coverage in auditorium classrooms that hold more than 125 people.
02/06/2012
Wireless Trends - The UT campus saw a 47 percent increase in wireless connect hours and a 22 percent increase in number of devices from last fall.
02/06/2012
System Strategic IT Plan - UT System is engaging UT Austin in the development of a System-wide strategic plan for Information Technology.
02/06/2012
The Life Cycle Management Sub-Committee, which will investigate ways to improve software change management for UT administrative applications, was unanimously approved by the Business Service Committee.
02/06/2012
Mobile Strategy - Announcing the launch of the task force that will develop a strategy for our mobile campus.
12/21/2011
Administrative System Master Plan - A plan for a new Administrative System has been developed.
12/13/2011
Intersession Outages - The intersession outage schedule for campus has been developed and approved. Contact ITS for details.
12/13/2011
MyEdu - The MyEdu Implementation Steering Team has launched and the pilot for MyEdu sertvices is underway on campus.
12/13/2011
Trainee Pool - The Business Services Committee unanimously endorsed a new funding strategy for a trainee pool to provide IT support services to users across campus.
12/13/2011
Data Management Training - A communication and training schedule has been launched for the data management and planning resources site (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/datamanagement). Roll out will occur in December and January.
11/22/2011
Data Storage - User acceptance tests of the new data storage software will be complete in December and full launch is expected in the spring.
11/22/2011
App Development - The Business Services Committee unanimously endorsed the Application Development Decision Tree for deciding when to engage the ISO in the application development process.
11/22/2011
Data Management Planning - A set of resources to assit grant writers in developing data management plans has been compiled at the following site: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/datamanagement.
11/11/2011
BYOD - In recognition that campus users bring their own devices to campus and that each of these devices requires security, AIC members have developed a series of device security briefs for campus. These briefs will appear throughout the ITS website.
11/11/2011
ISO - The Information Security Office has developed an Information Breach Security Plan for the University. The plan provides all of the steps necessary to address a breach as quickly and thoroughly as possible.
11/11/2011
Longhorn Innovation Fund for Technology - 2010-2011 LIFT Recipients have filed their final project reports. The projects sparked lots of innovation on campus.
10/27/2011
UT Backup Project - Based on positive results of the pilot, Crashplan licenses and storage appliances have been purchased to safeguard data security and integrity at UT. UTBackup was selected as the name for the implementation of the new service.
10/27/2011
zOS - An upgrade of the University mainframe took place this year on October 2. All systems were tested post-update and deemed operational. The upgrade was a complete success.
10/27/2011
Laptop Encryption - In accordance with UT Systems policy, all campus laptops are expected to be encrypted by December 2011.
10/27/2011
IT Recruiting - SITAB endorsed guidelines for internal, cross-department IT recruiting and hiring.
10/27/2011
UTmail - More than 34,000 students are using UTmail powered by Google. Alumni can now claim an account.
10/27/2011
Administrative Systems Master Plan - Formal timeline, peer benchmarking and Best-of-Breed processes have been completed for the Administrative System Master Plan.
10/27/2011
My Edu - UT Austin will pilot the MyEdu Course Planner with students across campus this fall.
10/27/2011
Data Storage - The Research and Education Committee is considering the final and best pricing of select data storage venders and is ready to deploy the new storage system upon approval.
10/27/2011
Resources for Researchers - the first training for the information technology and data management planning resources took place on October 19, 2011.
10/21/2011
Student Printing - At the request of students, ITS will phase into the labs the use of the double-sided printing option as the default printing option for printers.
10/20/2011
Capital Budget - The Strategic Information Technology Accountability Board voted unanimously to approve the capital budget for fiscal year 2011-2012.
08/23/2011
VoIP – Recommendations from the task force will be presented to the Executive Committee for endorsement so that a final decision can be reached during the fall 2011 semester.
08/23/2011
vDesk, Phase 3 – AIC voted unanimously to approve the charter for Phase 3 which will focus on determining the cost effectiveness of offering vDesk as a service to campus.
08/23/2011
Course and Learning Management Evaluation – Responses from the final two vendors (Blackboard and Instructure) are being reviewed.
08/23/2011
ITS Applications Customer Service Survey –There were 89 responses, including 3 governance groups, out of 123 surveys distributed. The survey findings support that the team is focused on campus priorities. Details will be available after the presentation to senior management on Monday, August 15.
08/23/2011
Cloud Services Task Force – The charter was approved by the Operational IT Committee. Next steps are to break into working groups and oversee the roll out to campus.
08/23/2011
Desktop Back-up Tool – The project plan and cost estimate for CrashPlan are pending with the final cost estimate being worked out by Purchasing.
08/23/2011
Administrative Systems Master Plan (ASMP) – The ASMP now has a blog where progress, decisions and feedback are posted on a weekly basis. The plan is expected to be available by mid-October 2011.
08/23/2011
University Data Center – The final migration of equipment took place on Sunday, August 7, 2011. The almost year-long process included nine significant moves and over 850 pieces of gear.
08/08/2011
ERP UI – The project committee is meeting biweekly. Input from early adopters will guide the launch to the campus community later in the year.
08/08/2011
Change Management - A pilot of the change management system is currently underway. The goal is to have processes and procedures in place by the fall 2011 semester.
08/08/2011
Administrative Systems Master Plan (ASMP) – All eight Work Groups provided updates to the committee.
Reports
- IT Governance Accountability Report - October 2011
- IT Governance Implementation and Progress Report - First published, October 2010; Updated, December 2010
- Joint Operational IT Committee and Strategic IT Accountability Board Statement - November 2010
- Final SITAC Report - August 2009
IT Goals 2011/2012
- Create mobility strategy
- Provide data planning and management resources to researchers
- Determine learning management system and supporting technologies
- Build-out East Hall Data Center
- Implement disaster recovery for critical services
- Solidify and initiate voice over internet protocol core technology upgrades
- Upgrade web infrastructure
- Continue investments in IT security
- Complete administrative systems master plan and begin move to open systems development environment
- Upgrade building access control system