Tools of the trade

Administrative IT Roadmap - UC Davis - Curtis Bray

Presentation
More information: http://vpiet.ucdavis.edu/itroadmap.cfm

PIM - Saint Louis U - Jim Hooper

IT Ecosystem - U Chicago - Tom Barton

Random notes:

'It's hard to see the big picture from your patch."
Logic description of how one things depends on another
Graphical application that builds data into a graph with relationships between nodes
    Applications
    Hardware
Populated through conversations - not SNMP walks
Tom is constant factor to get commonality across systems
One ecosystem but have test instance (crash test dummy)
    Transactions for rollback
    Logs
    Security
High level stuff
    Good for next 6 month window
    Balance of maintenance vs. currency
Can answer questions
    Rank dependencies of nodes
    Show dependencies