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What We Accomplished - FY11 Goals Met
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• Enhanced the host database, which captures information about networked devices on campus.
FY11 goal: Continue to enhance Princeton’s data centers at 87 Prospect and New South and plan for a
new data center facility
During FY11, Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) staff developed extensive plans for migrating the IT infrastructure
located at 87 Prospect, and at several departments, to the new High Performance Computing Research Center (HPCRC)
data center at Forrestal.
FY11 goal: Maintain and enhance a secure campus computing environment
Providing a secure computing environment remains one of OIT’s top priorities. The following summarizes OIT’s continuing
efforts to provide a secure computing environment at Princeton:
• Launched a campaign to install data encryption software on University Windows laptop computers. This effort is
ongoing.
• Formed a team to begin work on identifying and documenting a University procedure for responding to potential data
breach situations. This effort will continue into FY12.
• Completed the development of the University’s new Oracle Identity Management system, which will better secure
accounts through timely account creation and account closure. After quality assurance and User Acceptance Testing
(UAT) are completed over the summer, the system will be activated in the fall of 2011.
• Developed procedures and reports to support the capture and review of security-related activity on a daily basis.
• Assessed and selected a product that will enable the University to identify where sensitive data is stored within the
technology infrastructure, determine if the data is secured appropriately, and take remedial action if necessary.
The product will be deployed in early FY12.
• In collaboration with the Treasurer’s Office, took steps to ensure that all areas of the University that accept credit and
debit cards transactions are in compliance with the requirements mandated by the Payment Card Industry.
• Incorporated IT Security training into OIT’s Business Technology Certificate Program (BTCP) to increase the awareness
of security-related best practices for computing.
FY11 goal: Produce strategic and tactical plans for emerging centralized services
OIT continues to make progress with the incremental provisioning of centralized services, with the key areas of focus being
server virtualization and the relocation of department servers to Princeton’s centralized data center. To support the goal to
move toward centralized services, OIT completed the following:
• OIT worked with several University departments to consolidate and “virtualize” individual servers. At the end of June
2011, 79 departmental servers had been virtualized onto the OIT-managed Virtual Platform System.
• OIT virtualized 110 physical servers within OIT, bringing the total number of servers virtualized since 2008 to 383. This
total number represents 65% of the total number of servers in the main data centers. The 383 virtual servers now reside
on 8 physical servers within the central data center.
• The annual electricity savings achieved through virtualization efforts to date equals 1.9 million kilowatt-hours of power.
The energy savings equates to a cost savings of over $165,000 per year.
FY11 goal: Continue to deliver academic information technology systems that meet the needs of the
academic community
The following summarizes the new features and functions delivered through the University’s academic services to support
University teaching and learning:
Course Reading List
The design and development of the Course Reading List application was completed and the pilot concluded successfully.
In the spring of 2011, faculty used the tool for the first time to enter the course readings for their upcoming fall courses.
Students will be able to review these lists and purchase the course materials online through Labyrinth, or other booksellers,
in the fall of 2011. The successful completion of the Course Reading List streamlines the book purchasing process for students
and offers more functionality than is required by recent legislation of the Higher Education Opportunity Act in 2008, which