1. Managing Information Technology @ UT November 13-14, 2008 Web Hosting and Storage

2. Managing Information Technology @ UT Overview The Campus Web Campus Web Vocabulary Web Site Guidelines and Policies Web Hosting and Storage Options Departmental and Organizational Options ITS Enterprise Web Services Future Directions

3. Managing Information Technology @ UT The Campus Web Large – Millions of pages and hundreds of applications in utexas.edu domain. Diverse – Many audiences, media types, functions, publishers Decentralized – hundreds of campus Web servers Mission-critical – includes important applications as well as information resources Cross-campus – engages ITS but also OPA, campus departments and organizations, and other developers and publishers

4. Managing Information Technology @ UT Campus Web Vocabulary Web Central – The University’s primary Web server - www.utexas.edu UT Direct – The University’s portal, with an emphasis on University business and administration –Registration –Paying Bills –Timesheets Webspace – Offers students, faculty, and staff 1 GB of space for Web publishing and file storage emergency.utexas.edu – Off-campus Web presence to be used in emergencies Blackboard Webmail

5. Managing Information Technology @ UT Guidelines and Policies Web Guidelines are at http://www.utexas.edu/web/guidelineshttp://www.utexas.edu/web/guidelines Accessibility Privacy Security: Information Resources Use and Security Policy Acceptable Use –Copyright –Bandwidth Branding –Templates –OPA Visual Guidelines: http://www.utexas.edu/visualguidelineshttp://www.utexas.edu/visualguidelines

6. Managing Information Technology @ UT Individual Web Publishing Policies ITS Acceptable Use –No commercial gain –No violation of copyright or other law or policy –Subject to resource limits –Considered ‘free speech’ Departmental options may be subject to additional policies

7. Managing Information Technology @ UT Web Hosting and Storage Individual Web sites Departmental Web sites Instruction Research Support

8. Managing Information Technology @ UT Individual Options Webspace –Free for students, faculty and staff –1 GB Individual UNIX-based publishing: UTS Individual Windows-based publishing: Austin Disk Services

9. Managing Information Technology @ UT Departmental Web Sites Virtual Host Names UNIX and Windows environments SharePoint Oracle Universal Content Management System

10. Managing Information Technology @ UT Web Resources for Faculty Instruction Blackboard CLIPs Departmental Options

11. Managing Information Technology @ UT Web Technologies PHP Python Java Cold Fusion webAgent Content Management Systems Streaming Media – Helix Databases

12. Managing Information Technology @ UT Web Central Architecture Clustered Solaris servers Shared Network Appliance storage Apache Web server PHP 5 Serves adminstrative departments, course Web sites, and student organization Web sites Publishing tools range from Dreamweaver and text editors to publishing systems like Drupal, Expression Engine and WordPress Other campus servers include IIS, Mac OS X/Apache, Linux

13. Managing Information Technology @ UT Enterprise Web Services Content Management – OUCMS: http://www.utexas.edu/web/cmshttp://www.utexas.edu/web/cms Analytics – Urchin: https://www.utexas.edu/web/analyticshttps://www.utexas.edu/web/analytics Quality and Accessibility Testing – WebXM: https://www.utexas.edu/web/qa https://www.utexas.edu/web/qa Security Testing – AppScan https://www.utexas.edu/web/security/https://www.utexas.edu/web/security/ Search – Google and htDig http://www.utexas.edu/learn/search/http://www.utexas.edu/learn/search/ Streaming Video – Helix/RealServer http://www.utexas.edu/web/video/ http://www.utexas.edu/web/video/ Blogs – WordPress Mu http://blogs.utexas.edu/http://blogs.utexas.edu/ Contracts – ITS can help with Web site development

14. Managing Information Technology @ UT Future Directions The “cloud” Green IT Services Virtualization

15. Managing Information Technology @ UT Saving Power and Space

16. Managing Information Technology @ UT Virtual Servers www.utexas.edu/its/vserver

17. Managing Information Technology @ UT Resources Web developers – webpub@utlists.utexas.eduwebpub@utlists.utexas.edu Application developers – txedge@lists.cc.utexas.edutxedge@lists.cc.utexas.edu Contact emails: –www@www.utexas.eduwww@www.utexas.edu –usability@www.utexas.eduusability@www.utexas.edu –utd-stewards@lists.cc.utexas.eduutd-stewards@lists.cc.utexas.edu