Re: From Decentralized to Centralized

["Ness, Carl J" <carl-ness () UIOWA EDU>]

I hate to say it, but this might become a reality for more campuses that are trying to get budgets under control. 
Duplicated services are going to be looked down upon, and people that are very high up aren't going to care about 
specialized support verses the central IT organization. If a university has a large (effective) central helpdesk, and 4 
other little ones supporting this college or that college, which do you think will survive a nasty round of budget 
cuts? 

I know several colleagues at other schools that have been asked to justify why a specific unit or college is running 
its own *insert system here* verses using the centralized service. Some of them have already lost the battle to keep 
their own.

This is a dangerous time to be involved in kingdom building...

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Joel 
Rosenblatt
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] From Decentralized to Centralized

This should be a good one :-) I can't wait to hear this discussion.

Sorry, I couldn't resist :-)

Joel

--On Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:11 AM -0400 "Sarazen, Daniel" <dsarazen () UMASSP EDU> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> I'm wondering if anybody out there has been involved with a project to
> centralize previously decentralized IT functions/departments and whether
> you could share you planning and any post-mortem that you may have
> available.
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> Many Thanks,
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Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel