CCSP Spring 2007 Conference

Thursday, May 17, 2007
Hilton Garden Inn, 1501 S. Neil St., Champaign

Abstracts

Presenters	Title and Abstract
Officer Todd Short	Keynote: Utilizing IT Professionals Within A Community Environment IT professionals play an increasingly important role in our community. While day-to-day responsibilities are normally well defined, what role do IT Professionals take in an emergency situation that affects the entire community? This will be an interactive discussion with feedback and ideas solicited from the IT professionals in attendance. Following are the main ideas that will be covered: Recent events including school shootings, terrorist events, natural disasters, etc. The importance of a coordinated approach and working together The utilization of IT professionals The importance of being prepared and knowing what resources are available Questions that have come into the Office of Campus Emergency Planning (OCEP) since the Virginia Tech shooting How prepared the University of Illinois is for dealing with an emergency and future improvements
Paul Hixon Larry Liddle Mike Smeltzer	Campus Audio, Data, and Video Conferencing If all goes according to plan, on CCSP Day, the Board of Trustees will approve a new audio-data-video conferencing system that will be jointly operated by ACES and CITES. By next spring's CCSP Day, a host of new conferencing options will be available to campus. This system has the potential to enhance all parts of our land grant university mission—teaching, research, and public engagement.
Randy Cetin Gabe Gibson Brynnen Owen Bart Rossman Neil Thackeray Chuck Wallbaum Melissa Woo	Datacenters: Current Resources & Future Directions Where do you house your IT equipment? Datacenters around campus run the gamut, from glorified closets to dedicated raised-floor spaces. Join this discussion, featuring a panel of IT Pros with a range of experience, from those needing to create machine room space to those who have recently opened new datacenters, and back full circle to a unit bursting at the seams in their existing datacenter and looking to what's next. We'll also hear from CITES about proposed plans for a new campus datacenter.
Mike Corn Angie Dimit	Always Illinois In September 2006, the College of Engineering rolled out a professionally oriented social networking service for students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the College. Due to the success and interest in this program, this social networking service will be extended to all members of the campus community, including more than 300,000 alumni, beginning June 1, 2007. This session will provide an overview of the service, answer questions, and highlight how and what the impact of the service will be for IT Professionals at the Urbana-Champaign campus. Audience participation is warmly encouraged.
Bob Booth Alex Breen Randy Cetin Erik Coleman Nick Haggin Larry Liddle Panit Lisy Mike Smeltzer Mary Stevens Rich Williams	CITES Update Have you ever wanted to know what projects Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) is working on? Well, wonder no longer. This session is dedicated to providing an update and overview of some of the larger projects and identifying how they may impact IT Professionals on campus. We have put together a panel of CITES staff to give a brief summary of the following projects: Active Directory Campus Network upgrade Contact Database Directory Services DNS changes Exchange Micro Cells Storage/Backups VPN
Mike Corn Natalie Crook	Challenges in Outsourcing of Electronic Services Increasingly, campus units are turning to third party vendors for electronic services—from traditional hosting services and pedagogy tools to deep elements of infrastructure. Some of the challenges faced when procuring these services include addressing security and privacy concerns as well as adhering to contractual requirements mandated by University Policy and State procurement law. This session will provide an overview of these issues and some approaches to solutions that are relevant to both outsourcing and acquiring electronic services.
John Arends Andy Burnett Mike Edwards Mark Johnson	Virtualization: Getting More Out of What You Have This session is designed for those considering utilizing virtualization in their environment. We will discuss where virtualization can be an appropriate solution, as well as the limitations of virtualization. The panel members will discuss current virtualization projects on campus and provide the lessons they have learned from their work. For those considering virtualization, this will be an excellent opportunity to learn about what virtualization can do for your users and the resources that are available to assist you in your projects.
Corey Betka Jack Brighton Paul Hixson Drew MacGregor Stan Yagi	Streaming and Downloadable Media on the UIUC Campus Online media such as streaming and podcasting have become vital for instruction, service, and outreach in higher education. A number of UIUC departments have been producing and serving online media since the early days of the web. During this session we'll get an overview of work in online media on the UIUC campus. Presenters will show examples of streaming and downloadable media applications; discuss some of the technical and workflow requirements; cover the resources available on the UIUC campus to help produce and serve online audio and video; explain about the knowledge resources and support available for those interested; and discuss issues of digital media preservation and metadata.
Mona Heath Jan Novakofski Deanna Raineri Ken Spelke	Campus IT Strategic Plan How can IT contribute most effectively to helping the campus achieve its goal of preeminence? Come hear members of the Campus IT Strategic Planning Steering Team summarize the planning process so far and describe the major themes that have emerged, as well as what happens next. The rest of the session will be devoted to Q&A and group discussion.
Corey Betka Jon Marks Chris Skaar	Network tools Available to ITPros In this session, we will provide an update on current Iris development and unveil the next generation of network management tools, which include the new web portal and underlying architecture. You will also get a chance to preview the technical specifications of the completely revamped DNS.
Steve Downey Anatoliy Gruzd Ryan Thomas Kirby Vandivort Alfred Weiss	Collaboration Environments: Where are we? Our campus LMS is established, IM is becoming mainstream, wikis are catching on, document sharing is blasé—or is it? But what about an environment that brings these disparate communications and pieces of information together? Are your faculty or staff asking for more effective ways to communicate and manage information among a team or group? Are you? Are you interested, but don't have the time or the freedom to explore? The purpose of this session is to bring together IT Professionals to talk about and to bring to light what's happening with collaboration environments on campus in particular and in the Higher Ed and IT industries in general—to see a.) what people are using now to meet collaboration needs; b.) what people are exploring or interested in exploring; and c.) how we might be able to help and be helped by one another. Dare I say, to collaborate?
Aaron Brown Michael Gardner Charley Kline Roger Lewis Ross Veach	20 years of UIUCnet: Where have we been, and where are we going? Twenty years ago, a name was given to a data communications network built to connect UIUC campus researchers to NCSA and the NSFnet—UIUCnet. The first connections to this new network outside of DCL began with buildings, such as the English Building, MRL, and RAL. Who could have imagined that from these humble beginnings, a massive conglomeration of over 68,000 hosts supporting over 100,000 University students, faculty, and staff members would have been born? Come celebrate this milestone with us and learn more about the past, present, and future of UIUCnet. You will get a chance to hear from some of the original architects and engineers who built UIUCnet from the ground up. We'll show you the previous generations hardware and the evolution over the years from 1980s to 21st century technologies. What challenges face UIUCnet in the future? You'll also get a sneak peak of what's coming up, including the campus network upgrade project, and we'll unveil the new generation network which connects the three UI campuses. Stay tuned for the next 20 years!