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Keynote: The Learning University
Accelerating technologies combine with heightened expectations and dwindling resources to create tremendous pressures for universities to perform to best effect. It is more critical than ever that institutions find ways to identify and support innovative solutions to problems. To remain effective in the face of so many challenges, institutions of higher learning must themselves become learning universities. |
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1A: Global Campus and You
Global Campus will open its virtual doors for applicants on October 1, 2007 and offer its first courses on January 2, 2008. A lot has been written about the Global Campus, but questions arise about whether and how it will impact technology activities in colleges and departments. This presentation will describe the overall technical environment for the Global Campus, with a focus on the ways in which the Global Campus could impact technology in colleges and departments – whether or not they are offering programs in partnership with the Global Campus. The goal of this session is to help you to be prepared to support your unit. Be sure to bring any concerns or questions that you want us address. |
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1B: illinois.edu Project - Since We Last Talked
Things have been relatively quiet since the domain name project was announced. What has been happening since last fall's CCSP conference? What decisions have been made? How much progress has the project team made? This talk will provide an update on the domain name change project - what has already been accomplished and what is yet to come.
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1C: Power Management: Green IT @ UIUC
The “Greening of IT” is in full swing but as corporate IT goes green, those of us in higher education are in danger of being left behind. A panel of campus IT leaders will discuss issues related to power management in a variety of campus settings including offices, labs and datacenters; the efforts that they are making to become more energy-conscious; and the obstacles in “going green” specific to higher education and the UIUC campus. |
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Mid-Day Plenary Session: CITES Update
Welcome back to the CITES version of speed dating. In less than an hour you will hear a half dozen speakers tell you everything you could possibly want to know about what CITES has been up to and what is in the pipeline. Mike Smeltzer, CITES Director of Networking, will be your tour guide. A team of CITES managers and directors will be on the stage with him to provide you with a look behind the curtain. Because there is never enough time for questions, each of the speakers will have his or her own well-marked table at lunch, which immediately follows, and you are welcome to join them to continue the conversations.
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Vendor Session A: Presentation by DELL
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Vendor Session B: Microsoft - What's New with Microsoft Windows Server 2008
In this session, we will take a look at the new Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system. Currently in beta, Windows Server 2008 contains many new enhancements to increase productivity and performance. Join us as we explore some of the new operating system features, including Windows Server Virtualization, Server Core, Read-Only DCs, and Terminal Services Gateway. |
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Vendor Session C: GigaFin - The Need for in-LAN Monitoring and Flow Remediation
Managing today’s networks requires tools to examine many thousands of flows on gigabit Ethernet LANs at many points, possible at every minor trunk connection. This presentation will cover existing tools and new techniques emerging.
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Vendor Session D: Sun Microsystems - Eco-computing, Inside Out
- MIPS per Watt
- CPUs to chasis
- 40kW per rack? Cool it.
- Competitor bake-off
- Beyond the rack to the portable data center
- ... and what about the desktop?
This talk will cover basic CPU efficiency, Niagara and x64 rack servers, the Intel quad core C4450 blade server, sun competition, BlackBox, and finally SunRay.
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Vendor Session E: APPLE - What's New in Mac OS X Server "Leopard"
Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard, the next release of Apple’s award-winning UNIX® server operating system, enables businesses and workgroups to take full advantage of the benefits of a server. Even nontechnical users can easily install and run Leopard Server and give their organization the ability to share files, schedule meetings and events, exchange instant messages, send and receive mail on the Internet, access the organization’s network remotely, publish podcasts, and host websites, wikis, and blogs.
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2A: What Everyone Should Know About Emergency Communications on Campus
After the tragedy at Virginia Tech, universities across the nation became interested in beefing up their emergency notification systems. At Illinois, those efforts have been ongoing for many years. We’ll tell you about the longstanding crisis communications systems, as well as the latest tools we’re launching to keep you as safe as possible—no matter what crisis might strike. |
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2B: Shared Services in IT - Information Session
Recent University and Campus initiatives are examining methods to improve process efficiencies and improving service levels to provide maximum resources to the academic front-line. One concept being discussed is the "Shared Services" management model. This presentation will outline some of the "Shared Services" concepts and how they could apply to IT. |
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2C: Campus Email and Calendaring - Today and Tomorrow
CITES currently offers two central email solutions, Microsoft Exchange and CITES Express, and two central calendaring solutions, Microsoft Exchange and Oracle Calendar. A number of units on campus run their own email and/or calendaring services rather than using any of these CITES offerings. Many students, faculty and staff are now using free off-campus email and calendaring offerings from companies such as Google and Yahoo. This session will provide an overview of the current state of email and calendaring on campus, review what is being done here and on other campuses with off-campus services such as Gmail and briefly outline some future changes for these services that have been discussed. The panel will then invite discussion on what campus email and calendaring services should look like three to five years from now. |
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3A: uiuc to illinois: What's in a (Domain) Name?
The uiuc.edu domain works just fine, thanks. So, why do we need to go through all the work of changing it? In this session, you’ll learn the importance of building a single brand of excellence, and why achieving brand recognition nationally will benefit everyone in the University of Illinois community. |
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3B: Smartphone Addicts Support Group
Sometimes hotly debated and sometimes shunned by IT support, smartphones can be a valuable tool to IT professionals and our clients. This “birds of a feather” type presentation will focus on discussing tools and services to make smartphones really work. While the primary presenter has experience with Treo (Palm and Windows) devices, this interactive session will surely discuss Blackberry devices and possibly even the iPhone. Whether you are an addict like the presenter, or your boss just asked how to get email on his new phone, this session should have something for you. |
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3C: Virtualization: What does it mean and how can I use it!
Virtualization in the Information Technology world is a logical rather than physical concept. Virtualization encompasses a vast number of different technologies, some of which we will not address. But there are three areas of Virtualization being utilized on Campus that the presenters are familiar with, these are the topics for this discussion. First is the notion of PC virtualization, or the idea of running more than one operating system on a computer. Second is the notion of Desktop virtualization, or the idea of providing an end user the entire desktop experience, the OS along with the applications, in one virtual package. Third is Server virtualization, or the notion of running multiple logical virtual servers on one physical piece of hardware. Let’s take a look at these different technologies and see if they can benefit your individual situation.
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Late Afternoon Plenary Session: CIO Direction
The most vexing problems in university information technology today are social, not technical or financial. Five key problems faced by Illinois will be examined: (1) disparities between haves and have-nots; (2) duplication of effort and expenditure; (3) high risk data handling; (4) fragmentation of cyberinfrastructure; and (5) conservatism in adoption of new technologies. No one owns the responsibility for these problems: That is, everyone can dismiss them as “not my problem.” But because each of these problems stands in the way of excellence for information technology at Illinois, they truly are our problems to solve. This presentation will examine each problem and describe what solving the problem would mean to Illinois. |
