Items Requiring over £50k expenditure
The following items are drawn from the above list of objectives. Those in bold and underlined are already on the ICT Capital Envelope road map (http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/ITgovernance/ICTexpenditure/Plans2010-11/PBCliteReports.pdf). Those in italics will hopefully be funded from other sources (in part at least). The others are suggested and would be presented as a proposal in due course for divisional approval before submitting to PICT.
| Title | Cost (£k) | Start and Duration (in chronological order) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core User Directory Implementation | Implement the Core User Director Service (http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/ITgovernance/ICTexpenditure/Plans2010-11/05PBC-CUD2010.pdf) | 132 | 2010 for 18 months |
| Development of Feedback and Assessment Tools (WebLearn) | See http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/ITgovernance/ICTexpenditure/Plans2010-11/09bPBC-WLAF-2010.pdf. | 100 | 2010-2012. |
| Managing capacity for backup and archiving: infrastructure upgrade, phase 2 | Upgrade to the tape drives (contained within http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/ITgovernance/ICTexpenditure/Plans2010-11/03PBC-backup-capacity2010.pdf carried forward). | 375 | 2011 for 6 months |
| Shared Data Centre – completion | Funded from OUED budget as part of soft-fit out. | 782 | 2011-2012 |
| Podcasting Infrastructure | See http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/ITgovernance/ICTexpenditure/Plans2010-11/13PBC-Podcasting2010.pdf | 100 | 2011-2012 |
| Dual Site Resilience in Shared Data Centre | See http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/ITgovernance/ICTexpenditure/Plans2010-11/07PBC-Resilience2010.pdf. | 400 | 2011-2012 |
| Enhancing OUCS Web Publishing Services | Depends on current survey of user needs, as to whether OUCS should be bidding to run a central CMS for the collegiate University. This will be a collaborative project looking at free/central provision and NSMS paid-for services. | 50 | 2011-2012 |
| Full disk encryption service | Depends on outcome of Information Security Best Practice initiative. | 50 | 2011-2012 |
| Review and Upgrade of OUCS Registration database | This is a definitive source of information for many departments, and needs to be reviewed and improved. This will depend though on work in terms of progressing CUD. | 50 | 2011-2012 |
| Managing capacity for backup and archiving: 'clientless' backup, phase 3 | Feasibility of offering a restricted, quota-based, clientless backup service for undergraduates and others; together with development project if validated (<http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/ITgovernance/ICTexpenditure/Plans2010-11/08PBC-backup-capacity-home-backups2010.pdf>). | 270 | 2011/12 for 18 months |
| Network improvements: Backup JANET link and IPv6 | See http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/ITgovernance/ICTexpenditure/Plans2010-11/04PBC-Janet-IPv62010.pdf | 2011-2012 | |
| Federated Storage Infrastructure and Research Data Management Service | Feasibility/pilot for supporting federated storage for research, etc (http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/ITgovernance/ICTexpenditure/Plans2010-11/11aPBCResearch-data-storage2010.pdf and also http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/ITgovernance/ICTexpenditure/Plans2010-11/11bPBC-RDM Service2010.pdf). This will very much depend though on whether some/all of this work can be funded from the external grant under the University Modernisation Fund. Should that be the case this funding would not be needed. | 200 | 2011/12 for one year |
| Replace Backbone Network | Feasibility study funded which will run in 2011. Upgrade to start asap, funded from without the ICT Envelope. | £2.5-3m | 2011 to 2013 |
| Nexus Exchange and SharePoint Upgrade: Phase II | Meeting capacity and replacement of end of life hardware for both Exchange and SharePoint. The amount specified includes a) meeting capacity, currently 900GB per month (£150K, 2011/12; further £150K 2014/15, including data backup); b) replacing hardware (£500K, 2012/13). The amounts required partly depend on whether fundamental changes are made to the Nexus storage architecture with the upgrade to Exchange 2010. | 600-800 | 2011/12 - 2014/15 |
| Mobile Oxford, phase II | Depending on results from Mobile Oxford Phase I, will further develop services for mobile devices – especially key student services. | 100 | 2012 |
| Managing capacity for backup and archiving, phase 4 | Replacement for tape robot (solution to be decided on basis of feasibility studies in Federated Storage and Research Data Management Service projects) | 550 | 2012/13 for one year |
| OUCS Data Centre refurbishment | Refurbishment of OUCS data centre (actual budget dependent on feasibility study). It is suggested a) this could result in a phased series of options (e.g. replace AC units first); b) some funding will come from Estates. | 800 | 2012/13 for 18 months |
| WebLearn: ‘hybrid’ Sakai2/3 | Project to deliver new version of WebLearn (Sakai 3). | 100 | 2013-2014. |
| Shared infrastructure services (Capacity planning) | Projected capacity planning and end-of-life hardware replacement for shared infrastructure services | 500 | 2014/15 for 9 months |
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