ICT Forum
2014 Conference

Greg and Ross discuss how they have deployed the open source Xen virtualisation platform to run production servers for Hertford and Linacre. They will run though the installation and setup process on Debian, look at backups, high availability/mirroring and P2V conversion of physical machines onto the platform, and question the status quo on the default position for virtualisation.

This workshop will cover the  developments of the Storage-as a-a-Service project. It will aim to give you a background to the project, what the project will deliver, the timescales and cover what has been achieved to date.  There will be ample opportunity for the audience to help steer he direction of this service during this session.

Jenny O’Connell and David Ford present a selection of incidents that OxCERT see, their effects and how they could be combined for a more sophisticated attack.

In this session, Ben and Ross will talk about their experiences of running IT for Colleges, including collaboration and joint working with other units. The aim is for the session to largely be a round table discussion where ideas and experiences can be shared, and potential opportunities for sharing staff and skills might be identified.

Brian and Richard will be talking about their experiences with the deployment of MS365 within St. Peter's College.  MS365 is powerful tool if used correctly and could be used in any unit of the University.  This is an updated talk from the last one given at the College's IT Conference (CITC) and is aimed for all units of the University, not just Colleges.

This workshop will look at some of the aspects of work in IT that are often overlooked.  We’ll talk about good (and bad) communication, how to look after your own career better and we’ll have a discussion about skills for interviewers and interviewees.

The tour is an opportunity to look around the Andrew Wiles building and see some of the mathematics we have embedded in the design. Unlike normal tours of the building this is also an opportunity to pick up on the more technical aspects of the building and IT systems such as network infrastructure, power management, green IT, digital signage, room booking, keyless building management and security, use of local server room and shared data centre, print strategy, floor boxes, AV, telephony/ICP, time lapse recording, Linux, Windows and Mac automated desktop deployment and configuration management etc. The tour content can be fairly flexible and led in part by the interests and questions of the group as we go. If you have a spare 7 minutes you can watch a time lapse movie covering the 2 year construction process at http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/new-building/time-lapse

About 10 years ago (or so) ITIL became the new buzz word and IT managers all over the country went back to school to learn a new language, take some exams and tried to fit everything we were doing into the new ITIL world. Was it worth it? What have we learnt? Could we have spent our time and money better? James will investigate, drawing from his own experiences and making observations on what will come next.

The Integrated Communications Project (ICP) aims to modernise Oxford's communications, with a new system that allows for online presence notification, instant messaging, voice and video conferencing, collaboration and screen sharing services. 

In this workshop we'll discuss the project's current design and build phase, the rollout of a pilot in early 2015, plus how to stay informed as the project progresses by taking advantage of the available resources and support.

The workshop will be a run through of the Electronic Archiving system and a look at how it works with different archiving practices. The emphasis will be on the archiving of records although, in principle, the system is content agnostic.