CIT Advanced Technology and Architectures

History

Current Focus for FY10

The Advanced Technology and Architectures division of CIT was formed during the summer of 2004 with the following general charter:

ATA serves as a breeding ground for new ideas as they become mainstream, providing an opportunity for training and development to as many people as possible. ATA incorporates staff on a "sabbatical leave" from other divisions of CIT, who work with the core ATA staff and other sabbatical staff to develop products or services and then return to their home divisions, taking the projects with them.

ATA's mission was defined as follows:

• Explore emerging IT technologies and architectures
• Investigate new uses of mature technologies
• Educate University units on some suitable designs and strategies leading to an integrated self-service environment for faculty, staff, students and others.
• Work in partnership with other units of OIT/CIT, as well as with units and individuals across the institution, to optimize the return on the institution's investment in IT.
• Recommend technology decommission and migration plans.

In the years from 2004 - 2009, ATA has worked on the following projects (among others):

• Two Factor Authentication Exploration
• Kuali Notification System
• Second Life Exploration
• Kuali Rice and Cynergy
• Collaboration Tools Pilot with Confluence, JIRA and SourceForge
• IT Architecture Forums

ATA plans to spend the 2010 fiscal year focusing inwardly on CIT and how we can streamline the use of technology to help us gain effeciencies with our resources. The following priorities have been identified:

• Cloud Computing Investigation

• Microsoft Architecture

• Architecture Web Site

• Architecture Inventory

• iPhone Application Distribution

• Gartner Research Services

Please click on any of the links above for more information about the corresponding project.

Other Projects/Initiatives on Hold

The projects on this list are on ATA's radar, but are not receiving priority attention:

• Systems/Application Monitoring

• Principles of Architecture

• Consolidated LAMP Stack Investigation

Staff

What's New?

• Ron DiNapoli, Acting Director
  • 120 Maple Ave, Rm 272a
  • rd29@cornell.edu
  • (607) 255-7605
• Tommy Cusick, Student Programmer
  • 120 Maple Ave, Rm 272

• 9/22/09 -- added page for "Microsoft Architecture"