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Keynote: The Big Brother Dilemma
We want cameras watching for problems, but we worry that they will observe or disclose things we'd like to keep private. We want network administrators to track harassing e-mail to its source, but we don't want anyone monitoring our e-mail. We want our buildings to admit occupants and keep strangers out, but we don't want anyone keeping track of when we arrive and leave. In other words, we want big brothers to watch out for us, but we don't want Big Brother to watch us. And IT is caught in the middle. |
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1A: Practical Guide to Professional Development
Working in higher education at the University of Illinois presents both its own challenges and its own opportunities for a career in information technology. This practical session will show you steps you can take for assessing your current position and capabilities so that you can set career goals and a plan to achieve them. A member of Campus Human Resources will talk about University employee benefits and other University resources that can help you in following your plan. Training for Business Professionals will also be on hand to talk about the services available to individuals and groups through their office and other providers on campus. |
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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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CITES SMG staff
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1D: Sprint session - High Performance Computing
Participants can rotate between four different short sessions taking place simultaneously in each corner of the room. Each session is designed to last between 5-10 minutes. At the end of the interval, you are welcome to move to a different sprint session or leave to attend a different presentation. Space is limited.
- A: Running a Job on Sun GridEngine (SGE)
- B: Intro to Message Passing Interface (MPI)
- C: Comparison of Queuing Systems
- D: Corner (a) Guru: Parallel Computing Q&A
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1E: Active Directory Integration on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server
Please join Apple and learn how to integrate Macs into Active Directory to achieve basic authentication, access to network attached storage, home directories and roaming profiles. Discover how you can leverage Mac OS X Server's Open Directory service to provide greater administrative control over your Macs (much like Group policies on Windows machines) without extending the AD schema. You will also learn how you can leverage AD Integration on your Mac OS X Server to extend Single Sign-on functionality to several MOSXS services (web page authentication, access to file services, mail, and more). Space is limited. |
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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. The topics range from
AntiVirus to Wireless, with captivating topics like DNS and VoIP in between. Mike Smeltzer, CITES Director of Networking, will
be your tour guide. A team of CITES staff, 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 conversation.
Following is a list of the topics that will be covered:
- AntiVirus-AntiMalware RFP
- Audio/Video/Web Conferencing System
- DNS/DHCP Project
- ICCN
- Iris/Lens
- Student Email Futures
- VoiceMail Upgrade
- VoIP RFP
- Wireless
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Dan Smith
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Vendor Session A: FlexComputing from Dell
With On-Demand Desktop Streaming (ODDS), data resides on a virtual disk server that streams the OS, applications and image to approximately 100 end-user systems on-demand – providing performance, simplifying management and maintaining security. No software is pre-installed on the client and no data is stored locally. The local client maintains CPU and graphics processing power that enables on-demand streaming of the OS and applications for processing at the desktop – without overloading the network. This means there is virtually no impact on the end-user’s viewing experience or application performance while ensuring full application access, compatibility and functionality. |
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Vendor Session B: Presentation by Microsoft
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Vendor Session C: Presentation by AMD
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Dave Pickens, Chief Architect, Sun Microsystems
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Vendor Session D: Eco Computing - It Ain't Easy Being Green, presented by Sun Microsystems
Today's fast paced, "do more with less", ultra competitive environment seems directly at odds with the movement (desire?) towards greener, more energy efficient data centers. Sun Microsystem has a track record of thinking outside the box when it comes to innovation -- Eco Computing is no different. Come hear how you can address both the yin and the yang of Eco Computing. |
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Vendor Session E: New Mobile Introductions from HP
Introducing the new HP line up of mobile thin clients and the new 2133 Mini-Note PC. |
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Vendor Session F: Virtualization – True Green Computing for Everyone
Jeff McDaniel will discuss the following topics followed by a brief Question and Answer Session
- Virtual Environment Infrastructure Review
- Workflow Review
- Considerations for a Virtual Environment
- How Can We Be “Green” in a Virtual Environment
-Enterprise Users
-Small Departmental Uses & Users
- How to Get Started (new and existing environments)
- Best Practices
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2A: Forensics 101 for Incident Triage
Whether you know you've been compromised or suspect it, finding the smoking gun without destroying evidence can be tricky. This talk approaches incident triage from a forensic standpoint. We will provide you with some tips and tools to determine if you've been compromised, how to collect valuable evidence, where to look and a number of hidden gems that most people overlook while minimizing evidence contamination. |
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2B: Finding What You Made: A Digital Media Catalog for Campus
A growing number of campus departments are producing streaming and downloadable media, and web multimedia has become mission-critical for higher education in general. But how do we make online media accessible, findable, and useable? Members of the Illinois Multimedia Users Group (patterned on the Campus Webmasters) are developing solutions for publishing media in a way that allows sharing of content across the campus web, while managing media assets in our (ahem) customary decentralized manner. This session will also cover how your unit can become a partner in this effort. |
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2C: 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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CITES SMG Staff
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2D: Sprint session - Tools of the Trade
Participants can rotate between four different short sessions taking place simultaneously in each corner of the room. Each session is designed to last between 5-10 minutes. At the end of the interval, you are welcome to move to a different sprint session or leave to attend a different presentation. Space is limited.
- A: Sysadmin Survival Guide to Relational Databases
- B: Sysadmin Survival Guide to Relational Databases II: The Sequel
- C: Using Regular Expressions
- D: Corner (a) Guru: UNIX Q&A
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Kevin Morel, Syncsort, Inc., Account Executive IL & WI
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2E: Syncsort Backup Express
Syncsort Backup Express is a high-value enterprise data protection solution that enables organizations to dependably meet their disaster recovery and business continuity requirements. Its unique capabilities -- including bare metal recovery in minutes; disk-to-disk backup with archiving to tape; near-instant access to SQL, Exchange, and Oracle images; and easy recovery to any one of multiple points in time -- are fully integrated with a robust enterprise data protection system. The system is easily managed from a single interface and catalog for centralized control of both disk-based and traditional tape-based data protection strategies across heterogeneous operating systems. Space is limited.
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3A: University Assets: Surplusing and Accessing during Security Incidents
This presentation will review two topics: the new process and procedures for surplusing University computing equipment (including changes in magnetic media scrubbing policy) and the policies governing access to electronic data during security incidents or when a staff member dies or leaves their position. |
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3B: my.illinois.edu - The University Portal featuring Lens!
The university portal is being implemented on all three campuses to provide a single access point and one-time login for many university and campus applications and resources. Located at my.illinois.edu, the Urbana-Champaign campus portal is now being used for new undergraduate students entering for the Fall 2008 semester. My.illinois will soon be extended to all students, and then to faculty and staff. Applications targeted for the initial phase of my.illinois include I Start (currently available for new undergraduates), communications tools (targeted announcements, RSS, and email), Banner Self-Service, Degree Audit Request System (DARS), Illinois Compass, and Library resources. The portal framework will be made available to external units to deploy additional unit and/or cohort-specific applications within my.illinois to provide targeted, organized, and customizable access to web-based resources for the university community.
The CITES Network Development group has been hard at work for the last year developing a database to gather network statistics. Lens, as it has come to be known, is now ready to provide IT Professionals access to this information. Our first offering will be via a set of portlets found on "my.illinois." We would like to talk about how lens does what it does, how IT Professionals can access the data and what we are working on for future releases.
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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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CITES SMG Staff
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3D: Practical Version Control
(NOTE: Laptop required for participation.)
This tutorial will give you hands-on experience managing development and system configuration projects using subversion.
Space is limited.
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Late Afternoon Plenary Session: Not Our Problem-But Ours to Solve
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.
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