IT Cost Reduction - 2009

IT Cost Reduction

Campus leadership is looking for ways to save at least $1 million in campus IT spending over the next two fiscal years. Several preliminary ideas have been suggested about how this might be accomplished. To provide your feedback on the four possibilities now being discussed or to make your own suggestions online, please visit
OIT Forums. See also "From Adversity Springs Innovation" by VCIT Marc Hoit

In early spring, 2009, VCIT Marc Hoit formed task groups to investigate the feasibility of four IT budget reduction strategies. These groups submitted reports in May 2009:

IT Cost Reduction Strategies Reports

• Single-Source Campus E-mail - Andy Raynor, Director, Education IT, CED
  
• Computer Labs & Student-owned Computing - Keith Boswell, Director of Technology (ITECS), COE
  • Appendix A - Budget Reduction Strategy
  • Appendix B - Computer Lab Survey
  • Appendix C - Computer Lab Survey Instructions and Definitions
    
  • Appendix D - Worksheets
  • Presentation slides - Overview of report to University IT Committee, May 13, 2009
    
• Managed Desktops - Pete Evans, Director, Computing & Information Systems, PAM
• Web Hosting - Alan Schueler, Director, Academic & Administrative Technology, CALS