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Storage Management Direction

The Storage Management Project has completd the needs analysis, market research and cost analysis. The team has also established a strategic direction for our storage solution, and is now at the vendor negotiation stage. They expect to select a vendor by mid October and to deploy by the end of the calendar year.

The storage strategy seeks to accomplish a number of things:

1. Consolidate storage administration for all Enterprise storage to simplify and remove inconsistencies.
2. Use the same storage systems where possible and cost effective. This increases speed of implementation and lower the inital cost.
3. Have the fewest storage systems possible, reducing costs while simplifying management, upgrades and replacement cycles.
4. Avoid pre-purchasing storage space whenever possible. Purchasing space as needed provides the lowest hardware cost.

More information will be available as the storage management project progresses.

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Kronos Goes Live for Student Employees

Student employees began using the Kronos automated timekeeping system this fall. This system significantly reduces the time and effort necessary for recording work time. With Kronos, student workers and supervisor approvals are entered online, eliminating the need for paper
timesheets and manual editing. The system is currently implemented for student employee payroll and will later be used for all classified employees.

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Information Security Program Audited

The UW System Office of Operations Review and Audit performed a program review of the information security program at UW-Whitewater on September 22nd as part of a larger initiative of security program review at all UW
System institutions. The review covered computer security functions, policies, practices and procedures and involved Elena Pokot, Blake Penn and Nick Ciesinski. iCIT looks forward to seeing the results of this review which are expected to be available early next year.

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New Sites Added to Collage

Several campus websites have recently been added to the Collage content management system, and several more are slated for development in the coming months. The iCIT web team has worked hard to provide exceptional customer service and deliver an excellent final product to our web customers.

The College of Letters and Sciences, College of Business and Economics, Career Services and Athletics sites were deployed in the past couple of months (see below). Development of the College of Education site is continuing this fall, and the College of Arts and Communications site will begin in the near future. This will complete the move of all four college sites to Collage.

Work is continuing on the Academic Affairs site, as well. Meanwhile the initial stages of development have begun for the Music, Chancellor’s Office, and Pre-College Programs sites.

Recent Sites Added To Collage:
cls_site.jpg College of Letters and Sciences
cobe_site.jpg College of Business and Economics
cs_site.jpg Career Services
ath_site.jpg Athletics
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Tom Jordan Presents at EDUCAUSE

Tom Jordan will present at the national EDUCAUSE conference in Dallas, TX on October 11th. His presentation is called “Creating and Implementing Effective IT Processes.” Effective IT processes move IT organizations beyond crisis management and personal heroics and into the realm of repeatable successes. This presentation talks about characteristics of effective IT processes, and relates positive and negative experiences in designing and implementing structured processes in organizations that are sometimes reluctant to implement them.