4. FILL ME IN
• General availability for faculty, staff, and
students on August 20, 2015.
• Unlimited and free storage for users; user
friendly interface.
• What should and shouldn’t be stored on Box?
• 4,054 logins in September, 637 unique users,
2TB of data, 232 invited collaborators.
Averaging 316% growth rate in last 3 months!
• Training sessions being offered by ITC with
online materials also available.
http://montana.box.com
BOX
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
5. FILL ME IN
•
• System wide Montana State tool
supporting video teleconferencing.
• Initial deployment in August.
• Unlimited licenses in October.
• 150 current users with an average of 6
sessions being launched per day.
• Rolling out additional functionality this fall.
• Training sessions being offered by ITC
with on-line materials also available.
http://montana.edu/webex
WEBEX
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
6. FILL ME IN•
• ITC assisted in the design & deployment the
University’s Emergency Operations Center.
• The EOC provides a command center for
institutional response that helps coordinate
aid and communication during a crisis.
• The displays in the room can be managed
from independent sources by multiple
teams allowing for maximum efficiency and
flexibility in emergency management.
• Room went on-line in September of 2015.
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS
CENTER
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
new eoc image
8. FILL ME IN
••
• In August ITC unveiled a new virtualization service
focused on classroom labs.
• Gaines 346 (L&S)
• Roberts 109 (ITC)
• Currently 60 virtual desktops with 90 applications
presented, customizable to lab.
• Goal is to grow this to additional departments at “no”
or minimal costs.
• Hope is to grow this to other student pilots in the
future.
http://studentlabs.montana.edu/virtualization/
index.html
VIRTUAL DESKTOP
INTERFACE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
9. FILL ME IN
•
• Designed and deployed the largest TEAL
classroom site at Montana State in Cheever.
• This classroom augments the 189 other technology
enhanced spaces on the Bozeman campus.
• 30 of these sites are new and were deployed over
the course of the Summer, a 19% growth since the
Spring semester.
• New advisory structure to provide us with future
guidance on these environments and other
instructional technology needs.
http://www.montana.edu/facultyexcellence/
TLResources/ActiveLearnResources.html
TEAL CLASSROOMS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
10. FILL ME IN
••
• Our lab survey last year showed one of the top
applications that drove students to our labs was
the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Montana State was able to extend our license to
get students Office 365 for free.
• Student may install on up to 5 PCs or Macs,
online ap versions on iOS, Android, and
Windows.
• 890 students have already downloaded the
software. Increasing our marketing efforts to
push this number even higher.
http://ou.montana.edu/office365/student/
Office 365 Pro Plus for Students
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
11. FILL ME IN
••
• ITC is now supporting Pulse, the new
student mobility app from Brightspace.
• Helps address an underlying weakness of
the D2L environment which was mobile
support.
• Focus of the app is on managing your
workoad, news, and viewing grades.
• Available on both the iOS and Android
platform.
http://www.montana.edu/ecat/help/pulse/
index.html
D2L Pulse
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
13. FILL ME IN•
• New team combining personnel from ITC
and the University Library (11 staff, partial
time).
• Mission is to elevate our research
capacity and improve support for
discovery.
• Team will provide services (data
management, curation, data science
consultation) and infrastructure (hpc,
network, storage).
Data Infrastructure &
Scholarly Communication (DISC)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
14. FILL ME IN•
• In July 2015, Montana State became a
Globus provider with managed end points.
• Free service available to the research
community, moving big data and dealing
with identity.
• 236 requests thus far moving 3.58 million
files.
• Big Data movement benchmarks
• 654 Gigabytes per hour to TACC.
• 130 Gigabytes in 20 minutes.
• 1TB in 61.2 minutes.
RESEARCH DATA TRANSFER
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
Globus stuff of graph
15. FILL ME IN
•
• 1400 cores, 2800 gigabytes of RAM, 900
terabytes of storage. 12 TF capacity.
• As of October 20th, we have 60 users from
12 academic departments and 5 schools.
• 100+ installed library software packages
including R, Python, Matlab, Visit, NCBI-
blast.
• Have supplemented our personnel support
with a partner, BIOS-IT.
http://www.montana.edu/rci/
HyaliteCluster.html
Hyalite HPC Cluster
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
16. FILL ME IN
• ITC has established a High Performance
Advisory Group to provide advice,
guidance, and vision on advanced
research cyberinfrastructure.
• Group will meet on a monthly basis with
minutes being publicly shared.
• 1st meeting will be in November.
• Initial focus will be on operating
processes for Hyalite and next round of
capital investment.
HPC ADVISORY GROUP
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
• Mensur Dlakic, Microbiology
• Erick Johnson, Mechanical
Engineering
• Martin Lawrence, Chemistry
• Mark Owkes, Mechanical
Engineering
• Ben Poulter, Ecology
• Doralyn Rossman, Library
• John Sheppard, Computer Science
• Michael Wright, L&S
• Mark Young, Plant Bio
• Nicolas Yunes, Physics
HPCAG Members
18. FILL ME IN
• EDM module implemented and integrated
into Banner, 798 hours of work.
• Initial pilot is underway in the College of
Engineering; focused on pcard receipts.
• Second pilot, transfer transcripts, just
finished training.
• Goal is to use pilots to look at
standardized process and then scale.
http://www.montana.edu/edm/
ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT
MANAGENT
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
Scanners in place?
19. FILL ME IN
• Degree works updated to Version 4.1.4.
• Provides better tools for students to use
when planning their path towards degree
completion.
• The upgrade allows us to integrate Cat
Course Scheduler with Degree Works
providing more integrated interface for
our students.
http://www.montana.edu/degreeworks/
DEGREE WORKS UPDATE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
20. FILL ME IN
• Montana State operates a hybrid business
environment, we have over 35 secondary
applications that don’t reside on our
campus.
• Integration projects:
• Banner Document Management
• Cat Course
• WebEx
• T2 Billings Payroll Deduce
• Payroll for Rec Sports
• OCHE Data Mart and ACA Feeds
• Montana State Bookstore/Cloud
SYSTEM INTEGRATION
PROJECTS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
22. FILL ME IN•
• 80% of campus has moved to 0365!
• 3711 mailboxes have been moved.
• Completed the Colleges of Agriculture,
Arts & Architecture, Jake Jabs College of
Business, Vice Presidents of Student
Success and Research.
• Goal is to have campus DONE by
January 2016!
http://www.montana.edu/office365/
OFFICE 365 (O365)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
23. FILL ME IN
•
• Top problem identified before joining
Montana State…unsolicited email.
• Sonic wall is an “appliance” that will go
live on November 12th.
• User receives summary of daily junk mail
that has been captured.
• Will evaluate layered approach to spam
throughout rest of the academic year.
http://www.montana.edu/itcenter/
sonicwall.html
SONICWALL
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
24. FILL ME IN
• Wireless Concepts
• Coverage-is WiFi available in the area?
• Capacity-is their sufficient bandwidth
from WiFi in the area?
• Changes in user behavior (multiple
devices, byod, etc) have impacted
suggested capacity standards.
• FY15 $252K,
• 58% Coverage, 42%Capacity
• FY16 $~305K
• 64% Coverage, 36% Capacity
WIRELESS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
http://www.montana.edu/wifi/
26. FILL ME IN
•
• Wanted to have a forum for better
coordination of information sharing
related to security and data privacy.
• Deans, Vice Presidents, and Campuses
invited to nominate representatives.
• 26 members, ITSC is chaired by Montana
State’s Chief Information Security Officer.
• Funding opportunities to increase
professional skills supported by ITC
http://www.montana.edu/itsecuritycouncil/
IT SECURITY COUNCIL
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
27. FILL ME IN
• Software tool that assists users to identify
personally identifiable information.
• Currently deployed on 1,215 machines.
• Goal is to have the software on all
institutionally owned assets.
• Over 64 million pieces of data identified thus
far, with 11 million of those being social
security numbers.
• Improving documentation and training for the
end user on what to do with PII.
http://www.montana.edu/itcenter/identityfinder/
IDENTITY FINDER
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ MONTANA STATE
identityfinder