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Re: From Decentralized to Centralized
From: "Consolvo, Corbett D" <cc72 () TXSTATE EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:11:12 -0500
We are in the process of centralizing most server-type services but are not centralizing staff. We felt that having someone who works in a functional department providing support for the department's applications to be a pretty good idea. While we do not have a formal project structure for this in particular, we rolled out a formal but friendly risk assessment project for the entire university as well as deploying a large central VMWare infrastructure. While doing risk assessments for departmental services we offered to provide hosting services so they would no longer have to worry about a lot of the major pieces of the risk assessment such as physical security, backups, the larger BC/DR process, etc. The departments continue to support their own apps and are given all the appropriate rights to do so. This seems to be a very successful process in our environment. We are not pursuing centralizing lab/desktop PC support any farther than it already is (we have a very good central Helpdesk as well as departmental lab and desktop support). Corbett Consolvo Texas State University From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Sarazen, Daniel Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:12 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] From Decentralized to Centralized Hi All, I'm wondering if anybody out there has been involved with a project to centralize previously decentralized IT functions/departments and whether you could share you planning and any post-mortem that you may have available. Many Thanks, [cid:image001.gif@01C9A880.DE981980] :: Daniel Sarazen, Information Technology Auditor :: University Internal Audit :: University of Massachusetts President's Office :: 508-856-2443 :: 781-724-3377 Cell :: 508-856-8824 Fax :: Dsarazen () umassp edu<mailto:Dsarazen () umassp edu> University of Massachusetts : 333 South St. : Suite 450 : Shrewsbury, MA 01545 : www.massachusetts.edu<http://www.massachusetts.edu/>
Current thread:
- From Decentralized to Centralized Sarazen, Daniel (Mar 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: From Decentralized to Centralized Joel Rosenblatt (Mar 19)
- Re: From Decentralized to Centralized Ness, Carl J (Mar 19)
- Re: From Decentralized to Centralized Kathy Bergsma (Mar 19)
- Re: From Decentralized to Centralized Allison Dolan (Mar 19)
- Re: From Decentralized to Centralized Consolvo, Corbett D (Mar 19)
- Re: From Decentralized to Centralized Joel Rosenblatt (Mar 19)
- Re: From Decentralized to Centralized Jesse Thompson (Mar 19)
- Re: From Decentralized to Centralized randy marchany (Mar 19)
- Re: From Decentralized to Centralized Gary Bristol (Mar 19)
- Re: From Decentralized to Centralized Bowden, Zeb (Mar 19)