Thursday, June 13, 2013

Breakout 10: How IT at Penn State has changed/adapted

How Information Technology at Penn State has changed/adapted to new pressures/opportunities.
Vince Verbeke
Neal Vines
Jacki Weikert
Penn State University

25% budget reduction
IT across campus was told to consolidate to one dept.
several hundred e-mail servers across campus.

Create all-inclusive central IT group
create new unit structure

help desk, systems admins, consultants.
 counties consolidated to districts

5 pages of projects to get through the consolidation:

voip, statewide data plan, domains and servers, firewalls, network upgrades, wireless, lab management


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