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eScienceSteering

Committee

Office of UW Technology Ron Johnson, Vice President

Human ResourcesSusan Lawrence

Coordination & ControlsAlisa Hata

Business & FinanceMike Bryant

STAFF SERVICES the UW community can use

Engagement Initiatives Sandy Moy

Security/Privacy Kirk Bailey, CISO

Major Procurements Kerry Kahl

Planning & Facilities Initiatives Pam Stewart

Technology Strategy Terry Gray, CTA

Emerging Technology Oren Sreebny

IT Accessibility Sheryl Burgstahler

State IT Relations Clare Donahue

Compliance Kerry Kahl

IT Partnerships Jacqueline Brown

IT Human Resources Susan Lawrence

OPERATING UNITS

UW Technology Services Scott Mah

Learning & Scholarly TechnologiesLouis Fox

Network SystemsClare Donahue

Streaming Media, Video & TV Tech. Amy Philipson

Professor Ed Lazowska

(Reports to the VP UW Technology for technology issues, and to Provost for academic issues)

To Provost for

Academic Issues

Office of Information Management (OIM) Sara Gomez, CIO

Line to Provost for

Priorities a

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UW Numbers at the Core

• 395,000 known identities• 130,000 devices on network• 32,000 phones• 15,000,000 homes with UWTV• 60 TB on network/day

What happened in 2007?Email messages: 1,500,000,000 (83% spam)Operations: 18,000 ticketsClient Services: 110,000 contactsSecurity: 150,000 emails

Hot Issues

Technical• Datacenter

• Bridging proprietary silos

• Managing diversity & complexity

Organizational• Re-invention, Re-focus, Re-invigoration, Remaining Relevant

• Successfully engaging campus

• Group governance (leading vs. following)

• Overly tactical focus

• Budget/funding model

• Staffing: retention; new skill sets needed

Assimilating Key Trends• Central expertise -> distributed decisions

• Engineering -> customer driven

• Mainframe -> PC -> "cloudframe"• Insecurity -> regulation -> compliance

• Mobility

Strategic Choices

HOW TO embrace/encourage:• eScience• Mobility• Globalization• Social networking• A sustainable funding model

HOW MUCH:• Complexity and diversity can we tolerate?• Consistency among operating units?• Outsourcing?• Strategic focus and investment?

(e.g. New services, risk mitigation, infrastructure renewal)

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