Serving the Research Mission: An Approach to Central IT's Role
Speaker: Matthew Stock, University of Buffalo, a flagship of SUNY
This presentation at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Enterprise Information and Technology Conference was about serving the research mission at UB from the perspective of central IT's role.
University of Buffalo IT (UBIT) serves - medical, professional and tradition types of research.
CIO has 6 areas of responsibility: Enterprise, Operations, Administration, Academic, Security, and the new Enterprise Research Computing Services
For the Bioinformatics center which is multidisciplinary, UBIT provides client support, opportunities to evaluate alternative IT methods, and long-term faculty interactions. They are actively basing their research computing support on what the faculty actually need. Stock noted that many central OIT units have stepped away from direct research support and given it to the distributed IT.
Goals for the program:
