Re: From Decentralized to Centralized

["Consolvo, Corbett D" <cc72 () TXSTATE EDU>]

We are in the process of centralizing most server-type services but are not centralizing staff.  We felt that having 
someone who works in a functional department providing support for the department's applications to be a pretty good 
idea.  While we do not have a formal project structure for this in particular, we rolled out a formal but friendly risk 
assessment project for the entire university as well as deploying a large central VMWare infrastructure.  While doing 
risk assessments for departmental services we offered to provide hosting services so they would no longer have to worry 
about a lot of the major pieces of the risk assessment such as physical security, backups, the larger BC/DR process, 
etc.  The departments continue to support their own apps and are given all the appropriate rights to do so.  This seems 
to be a very successful process in our environment.  We are not pursuing centralizing lab/desktop PC support any 
farther than it already is (we have a very good central Helpdesk as well as departmental lab and desktop support).

Corbett Consolvo
Texas State University

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Sarazen, 
Daniel
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:12 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] From Decentralized to Centralized

Hi All,

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.

Many Thanks,

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