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Keynote:Edge, Leverage and Trust in an Era of Abundance
Should IT services be centralized or decentralized? To misquote Shakespeare, that is NOT the question. In an era of technology abundance, today’s relevant question is what IT service activities should be enabled and supported at the Edge where local skills, proximity, and domain knowledge are most relevant and which services are best provisioned with Leverage, scale, and efficiency. Trust is the essential element for success at a campus and beyond. |
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1A:Campus Podcast Producer Pilot Project Update
Through collaboration between CITES and the Colleges of Education, Veterinary Medicine, and ACES, Apple’s Podcast Producer Server is now being used to capture classroom lectures and provide them to students via the new iTunesU Illinois. The panel will share how the project developed, what has been achieved thus far, and where they plan to go from here. The presentation will include a Podcast Producer Server demonstration. |
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1B: Campus Voice System Replacement Project (30 minute session)
The current campus voice system is over 20 years old. An RFP process was completed last spring to select two vendor finalists, who will each complete a design for a new voice system. The best plan will be brought forward for approval by the Board of Trustees in Summer 2009. This presentation will cover the final design process, voice system replacement technologies, campus unit involvement , andthe readiness of Campus to move to VoIP (Voice over IP). |
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1C: Email Futures
CITES is exploring ways to enhance the capabilities of email--starting with student email-- to promote a more collaborative environment and meet expanding user needs. Ongoing discussions with faculty, staff , and students are taking place to help identify user needs and other criteria necessary to make a decision for campus. This presentation will offer you a chance to hear the results of discussions-to-date and to give your own input. |
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Mid-Day Plenary Session: CITES Update
CITES is undergoing much change, with the focus being tasks and work flow.In addition to receiving a high-level view of the future of CITES, this session will provide you with information about audiovisual integration in new construction, campus collaboration through audio/video conferencing, learning resource offerings, and the DNS refresh project.
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DELL Representative |
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Equallogics iSCSI SAN demo
Do you want to learn how easy it is to set-up Equallogics iSCSI SAN in about 10 minutes? Come join us for a Dell | Equallogics demo from 1:00- 1:30 pm. Dell will show you how to simplify IT with a low cost ISCSI SAN technology. We will demo the ease of setting up a Equallogics SAN and showing you how easy it is to manage your back-ups with snaps and replications. |
Michael Kulik and Jennifer Knipfer, Storage Specialists, Sun Microsystems
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VD: Sun's Storage Strategy
Today's storage challenges are tougher than ever. You're faced with exponential data growth and escalating costs. But closed, proprietary architectures lock you in and make it difficult to respond quickly to market forces. Now there's an alternative. Sun Open Storage combines open-source software with industry-standard hardware, enabling you to reduce your reliance on high-priced systems and save up to 90% on storage costs. |
Eric Irwin, Lenovo |
VF: Presentation by Lenovo
Lenovo will present product road map updates on Lenovo Think Pads, Think Centers, Think Stations, Servers and
Think Vantage Technologies and what differentiates Lenovo from our competitors. |
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illinois.edu Project - Full steam ahead &
IT Career Challenges in the Academic Environment
(Split Session)
The new illinois.edu domain opened to the general campus community November 1, 2008. What does this mean? What kinds of plans are in place to help IT Pros navigate? What do departments and units need to know as we move forward? This talk will provide an update on the domain name change project, where we've been, and where we're going.
This second half of this session will be an open discussion moderated by the Chief Information Officer, focused on challenges IT professionals face when working in academic environments. Expected topics include career progression, professional development, performance appraisal, and collegial support. |
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2B: Green IT
Reducing the campus energy bill is a priority for the University. This panel will discuss campus efforts to conserve energy,providingdata on current pilot projects aimed at assessing the actual usage of devices and the lessons learned from those efforts. The panel will also describe policy initiatives and suggest incentives that could assist units with reducing their energy consumption. |
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2C: Opportunities Found: Improving Campus Spaces with Digital Signage
A convergence of display technology, connectivity, and content management, Digital Signage has drawn the attention of many organizations, including those in higher education, as an effective tool for communications with specific target audiences. If ubiquitous digital networking is to live up to its potential of being able to deliver ‘anything, anytime, anywhere,’ it may be up to IT professionals to stray outside of their comfort zone and begin to think about how they can enhance our physical spaces through the use of technologies, such as digital signage. This session will provide a brief introduction to digital signage from both a campus and an IT prospective, highlight current signage implementations around campus, and update participants on the current collaborative effort to develop digital signage into a campus level service. |
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3A: Virtualization Directions
This session will outline the current CITES virtual environment, the advantages of virtualization, and plans for the future.
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3B: Avoiding the Compost Pile: The Current State of Continuity Planning
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning, once constrained to the shadowy land of server rooms and central switches, is now mainstream. It's so mainstream, in fact, that the whole endeavor is being buried in an ever growing tide of vendor white papers, competing “standards,” and other compostable materials. This talk cuts through the confusion and provides an overview of the current state of the art in continuity planning. Highlights include how continuity planning relates to emergency management practices (such as notification systems), the entrance of academic institutions into the fray, new tools and initiatives, some case studies and best practices, answers to popular questions (e.g. does my plan cover what it needs to?), and how CITES fits into the whole affair.
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3C: Everyone Can Be a Leader
It doesn’t take authority to be a leader in any organization, but it does take desire and a bit of risk taking. Leadership can come from all levels – from the Web programmer to the CIO. In this panel presentation and discussion, members of the University IT community will discuss leadership in a variety of forms. You will hear about leading without a title, leading change, peer coaching, motivating staff, and how you can develop and use these skills in your department and around campus.
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Late Afternoon Plenary Session: Network Update
There are many network technologies that will become important over the coming years. Take an advanced lookat some technologies on the horizon, including IPv6, separate security zones for different classes of traffic, and network admission control, and learn what improvements have already been made to UIUCnet, such as the Core upgrade that was completed over the summer, DNS Anycast, and improved research network connectivity.
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