Lunch presentation to CIO Executive Summit in August 2012.

1. Four Important Trends in 20 Minutes:
Food for the Mind
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
University System of Georgia
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2. • Shortage of IT personnel
• Clouds and Economies of Scale
• Consumerization of IT
• Data, Big Data, Location-based computing and
Data-Driven Decision-Making
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4. Advantages of
Statewide Network
• Economies of Scale
• Proactive Growth
• Campus Agility
• Traffic Prioritization
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5. • Clouds and Economies of Scale
– Market pressures are driving consolidation and
moving IT services to private or public clouds.
– Economy of scale pricing example: the cost of 35
colleges and universities HR contract is much less
than the cost of two R1 institutions (Georgia
Health Sciences University and Georgia Tech)
combined.
– Library consortiums are the same.
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6. Now
HR Fin LMS SIS BI NET LIB
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Services •32/35 at ITS •31/35 at ITS •8/35 at ITS •Being rebuilt •35/35 at ITS •35/35
•32/35 •34/35 soon to be •34/35 Banner •35/35 at ITS •Extensive centralized
centralized PeopleSoft 34/35 •520 GA Mods •Not fully external state • Extensive
•Outsourced to •34/35 BlB/D2L utilized participation external
ADP participation
Public USG Educational Race to the
Cloud Cloud Top
Soon
State Ed Ecosystem
State Educational Cloud
Public Longer
Cloud State Ed Ecosystem
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7. Consumerization of IT
– Bring Your Own Device will change
campus culture, security, and instructional
delivery
– Managed/Unmanaged Applications
– Private/Work Split
– Who Owns the data?
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8. “On the Internet, the First Amendment is
• Data…. a local ordinance,” said Fred H. Cate, a
law professor at Indiana University.
• Big Data…..
• Location-based Big Data…..
• Big Data Driven Decision Making…..
What are folks saying about your
Need decisions now
organization on Facebook?
Requires a report
What are doing about what they
Report requires a collection
are saying?
Collection requires months
Do you even know?
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9. Questions, Comments,
A Conversation
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
University System of Georgia
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