IT Strategic Plan Refresh for 2008 (pdf)
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Part 1 Provide high quality connectivity for Columbus and regional campuses through regular network upgrades and appropriately sized bandwidth that ensure reliable and continuous information flow for today’s data intensive services.

Part 2 Establish a universitywide data storage strategy for researchers that minimizes administrative burden, stresses the importance of data backup, encourages the use of the campus’s Storage Area Network (SAN), and ensures compliance with laws and regulations.

Seek high-level support for centralizing network services. Continue efforts to collapse the network, build out the GigE, turn over to single mode, and centralize the firewall in Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).

Explore collaborations and additional projects for taking better advantage of Internet2 connectivity. Continue negotiating with OSCnet and others to increase Internet1 and Internet2 bandwidth and continue working with OSCnet on last mile connectivity (formerly Third Frontier) to the regional campuses.

Continue research and development talks with cellular companies on the convergence of voice, data, and media.

Continue to explore VoIP, wireless, and cellular applications in a fixed mobile environment, both on and off campus.

Negotiate with cable companies for high-speed access for faculty, staff, and students in under-served areas of Columbus.

Eliminate the duplication of storage services where possible: build a centralized or decentralized Storage Area Network (SAN) to avoid inefficient storage silos; combine storage mechanisms for some digital repository initiatives; establish an institutional repository that overlaps with research storage.

Institute an awareness campaign geared to principal investigators and researchers to stress the importance of data backup and to encourage use of the SAN. Work through departmental network administrators (DNAs) and enlist the support of the vice president for research and the Research Foundation.

Structure storage services so colleges and departments can manage storage and backups for their faculty and research projects. Address the additional bandwidth needed for increased use of backups.

Raise campus awareness that new grants require reporting on data recovery and backups.

Survey researchers on what the university should provide to give them a competitive advantage against other grant applicants.

Partner with the Research Foundation and the Ohio Supercomputer Center to deliver IT services to researchers.

Create a research liaison group in the Office of the CIO.

Capitalize on the multimillion-dollar NSF grant sought by University Libraries that would include collaborative international partners in the creation of new ideas in data storage and infrastructure.