Preceding the ICTF there was a Janet briefing on Public Access Wifi/current non-exclusive partner is The Cloud.

1. Jeremy Worth Welcomes ICTF members to the meeting.
2. minutes are accepted
3. Chairman’s Business
   Jeremy Worth, gave a brief synopsis of events including The Conference, Info.Sec Incident, IT managers meeting, mentioned ICTF Constitution and asked for anyone who wanted to be on the steering group to come forward.
4. IT Strategy
   Anne Trefethen, Oxford’s CIO, talked about the IT strategy consultation going on this Term. This ends on the 20th December, but will be extended for comments to ICTF if there are any thoughts to add.
   Anne explained how this strategy fits with The University Strategic plan and the Digital Strategy.
   The pace of technological adoption and social technologies. Expectations and Student experience are paramount.
   Not all investments are no longer necessarily for the long term. Some IT has become disposable, culture changes rapidly, our agility is important. Infrastructure, tools and skills, collaborations and partnerships across the university are important. A desire to help staff reskill and share developments.
   Sky Scrapers of technical architecture and data Architecture considered. There is now an IT Architecture Advisory Group with membership from OUP and Hospitals that will make sure sky scrapers are planned to fit together better and work with each other better. Please read and feedback and email suggestions to itstrategy@it.ox.ac.uk
5. Student Systems Replacement Project
   Denise Conway gave an overview. Oracle Student Systems being replaced with SITS: Vision.
   Oracle giving extended support for Oxford and Imperial who are collaborating. Summer 2013 Phase 1 to replace existing functionality delayed. Planned for 2014 now. New timescales and budgets agreed. There is a gateway in January recommending to PRAC on 21st January.
   David White then gave an appraisal of the Middleware “BizTalk” and how that interfaces with University systems, such as CUDv2 (has a fuller dataset). Mark Dyson (LMH and New) has been seconded to the project 3 days per week at the moment.
   David.white@it.ox.ac.uk happy to receive feedback or questions.
   There was a question about computing Graduate fees.
   CUD v2 will have enhancements.
   Matt Jennings asked about how solid the January gateway is looking? Denise Conway suggested 50/50, there are lots of risks. If the gateway is missed potentially another year will pass before implementation.
6. ITS3 Update
   Tony Brett gave an update on activities such as Suppliers Exhibition, training events and Whole Disk encryption. Work on experience database.
   Christopher Hoskin asked if WDE is open to colleges. The funding model is per user licence so it depends if the user has an affiliation with a department. Colleges are not paying. TB happy to train and accredit college ITSS as they support University staff too.
   UAS is first user of WDE, main priority is protecting University data. ICTF Conference will this year be at Maths Building in Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, date is set for 10th July 2014.
7. ICTF Steering report
   Sarah Lawson sends her apologies, Jon Ashton presents ICTF Steering report. Meeting was largely dedicated to work with Anne Trefethen and John Ireland re: IT Strategy consultation. The ICTF constitution has been questioned regarding succession rules. The Chairman and Secretary are unable to re-stand after six year so if anyone is interested please come forward. SIGS discussed, call for any conference ideas to come forward.
8. Reps from other bodies
   1. CITC Jo Ashbourn sends apologies, JW reads out news of new groups for IT managers, Academic IT Group.
   2. Div. Software licensing Andy Richards sends apologies. No exciting news to report.
9. Special Interest Groups
   1. CITF – no comments
   2. Web Managers –Jim Leek announces websig sharepoint site. Non ITSS were included, and contacts maillist.
      https://sharepoint.nexus.ox.ac.uk/sites/websig
10. Central Units
    1. IT Services – Jon Ireland gives his report
       Covering ICTF, IT Strategy, Tablet Working group, Consolidating websites. Maillist Upgrade. Nexus Mysites now available via self service.
       Matt Jennings asked about the Dell IT Deal not being on the Premier site. Maria Castro to be asked.
       Mike Fraser gave information of groupstore, PID in January and 9 month project. Extended SSO for all. Alumni to applicants. Self service SSO then authorised for services.
    2. BDLSS – Neil Jefferies for A.Bonnie is not present. His report is online.
    3. Networks
       Henryk Glogowski gives a report on the TONE project. Procurement rules apply so do not divulge. Resilience , Bandwidth and features explained. Stan working on publishing anonymised Findings. Extra resilience available at a cost. A question of what = n, where n is the time period for replacement. Currently 7 years , a question was posed that this should be reduced. Key date is the 2017 ratification of 400GB/s switching. Talk to Stanislav Burlakov with any ideas or suggestions.
    4. ICP Integrated Communications Project
       Alan Hillyer and Pete Jones give an update on the procurement process. Preferred supplier is chosen but not appointed so not divulged. By July/ Aug 2014 it is expected that a new UCS system will have been tested on 250 users.
    5. Service Desk
       Jonathan Marks gives a report on the procurement of a solution. Notification will be given after go live, this is to reduce a spike created by announcing it. Although there will be a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) users can still contact service owners. RT knowledge base will be retained, read only.
    6. Info Sec
       Jon Ashton gives report on behalf of Prof Jeffreys. Reiterating toolkits. Measurables are being worked on. Lunchtime courses are popular. Security and Privacy online. Oxcert is widening Scope as to what happens in the wider university. There is a draft on Incident response , please read and comment. Info Sec Sig to be relaunched. IT managers meeting in January will have an InfoSec focus. See http://www.it.ox.ac.uk/infosec/module for staff training module.
    7. Whole Disk Encryption
       Was covered previously in ITS3 report. See also http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/wde/
11. Any Other Business – there was none
12. Date of next meeting – 18th March 2014 venue Wolfson Room, CRL