Podcasts and Institutional Management

This 56 minute podcast features the opening keynote address from the EDUCAUSE 2008 Southeast Regional Conference. The speech, "Information Technology Challenges at NASA," is by Michael J. Bolger, CIO at NASA.

This keynote presentation discusses the current IT environment at NASA and the IT challenges that the agency faces as it moves into a new era of space exploration. The CIO from the Kennedy Space Center talks about new strategic directions and supporting initiatives being implemented across the agency to enable future mission success.

 

Gartner estimates that 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies will use virtualization by 2008. As higher education IT organizations adopt this technology, a variety of strategic decisions must be applied to the challenges of P2V—transitioning from physical to virtual—across the enterprise.

In this 11 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Robert J. Lowden, Director of University Information Systems at Indiana University. His presentation at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Enterprise Conference is entitled, "Virtualization Across the Enterprise". In this interview, Mr. Lowden shares experiences, challenges, and strategies of implementing a virtual approach to storage and processing.

In this 50-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Tom Jordan in a session entitled Creating and Implementing Effective IT Processes. Jordan talks about the characteristics of effective IT processes and relates positive and negative experiences in designing and implementing structured processes in organizations that are sometimes reluctant to implement them.