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OIT Campuswide Projects

IT projects and strategic initiatives are high-impact and cover a wide range of scope and reach. Projects and initiatives are undertaken in support of furthering OIT’s mission to provide information technology leadership, services, and innovative solutions to promote the research, education, and community service goals of the University.

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Current Projects

AWS 2.0 Migration

OIT’s new AWS 2.0 enterprise-class cloud environment makes it easier to use and manage AWS services by offering more streamlined requests, higher baseline security, and a more simple billing and invoicing process.

High-Density Wi-Fi Project

A multi-year journey to build out faster, more secure Wi-Fi across more of UCI.

Google Workspace Storage Changes

Google has announced the end of unlimited storage for Google Workspace. Effective July 1st, 2024, UCI’s unlimited storage will end. OIT will be rolling out a new tiered model to manage storage and costs going forward.

Mitel PBX Phone System Retirement Project

OIT has started a multi-year, phased project to leverage cloud based telephone services including MS Teams Telephone Services and AWS Connect.

OneDrive Cloud Migration

OIT is modernizing local file storage by moving select OIT-managed clients to Microsoft OneDrive.

Student Data Warehouse (SDW)

OIT is creating a complete on-premise repository of historical, connected, documented, available, and accessible student data to optimize UCI’s strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making.

Completed Projects

ES Mail Retirement

OIT migrated all active ES Mail (aka Webmail) accounts to either Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 in an effort to increase email security.

Evolve Project

OIT’s Evolve: Talent Enhancement Program allows us to strategically and intentionally invest in and grow our employees to meet the organizational needs of today and tomorrow.

Mailman to Google Groups Migration

Mailman mailing lists were migrated to Google Groups a cloud-based service with a similar feature set.

ServiceNow Analytics

The ServiceNow Analytics project created a data mart with reports and dashboards to optimize project, service-level, support, and effort-related decision-making and reporting for project managers and leadership.

 

UCI Single Sign-on Project

OIT retired its legacy UCI Single Sign-On (SSO) service WebAuth, in favor of a standards-based (SAML) service called Shibboleth.

Updated on:
April 4, 2024