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UW-IT Strategic Plan: Progress on Goals UW-IT STRATEGIC GOALS 1. KEY COMPLETED PROJECTS Excellent infrastructure and foundation services • UW Seattle Wi-Fi: Completed major three-year upgrade to improve performance • UW's data centers: Consolidated from five to three, with significant power efficiencies and cost savings • Telecommunications: Surveyed 3,000 staff and faculty to develop strategies for integrated communications • Authentication infrastructure: Upgraded identity and authentication servers to improve security and support future collaboration • K-20 Education Network: Completed major upgrade, increasing capacity and performance • Enterprise Integration Platform: Continued development to minimize dependencies between systems, resulting in faster service deployments 2. Advanced productivity and collaboration tools • UW SkyDrive Pro and UW Lync: Launched these Office 365 services for enhanced collaboration; UW SkyDrive Pro offers 25GB of storage •SpaceScout: Expanded to include UW Tacoma study spaces; received Campus Technology 2013 Innovators Award •Software licensing agreements: Renewed with Microsoft and Apple, making popular software available •UW Event Calendar: Released new calendar for University public events and departmental/college event calendars •IT Connect website: Redesigned for improved mobile access, navigation, and streamlined accessible content 3. Improved global research support • Hyak: Doubled capacity of UW's high-performance shared computing cluster •lolo Archive: Reduced rates 46 percent, and 22 percent for lolo Collaboration; minimum purchase requirements eight times lower •Microsoft Azure: Negotiated cloud storage and compute contract with Internet2 NET+ providing discounted rates and a Business Associate Agreement for protected health information •Research Network: Launched a project to more than double capacity to connect to off-campus research networks (to 100G) as part of the High Speed Research Network •Research Support: Established a research technology facilitator position to support researchers in using UW's cyberinfrastructure more info 12 UW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY UW-IT Strategic Plan uw.edu/uwit/strategic.plan