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  "We have seen an increase of several thousand applications each year and serve a student body of close to 68,000," noted Bruce Boda, senior systems manager for the Office of Information Technology at Ohio State.

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  Xpedio was extremely useful to us right out of the package , and IntraNet Solutions has provided excellent , highly responsive technical support. - Bruce Boda , senior systems manager for Ohio State University's Office of Information Technology.
  
  BackgroundOhio State University's Office of Information Technology ( OIT ) previously housed rows of file cabinets full of information systems ( IS ) documents , as well as more than 75 , 000 pieces of application code stored in various places throughout its computer system.Now , the file cabinets are gone , and while the pieces of code still exist , they are now in one place.
  
  How did Ohio State make this change.The university tapped IntraNet Solutions' Xpedio Content Management system to manage its IS documents and PeopleSoft code migrations online.
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  We've been able to free up staff to work on longer-term projects that aren't intricately involved in our daily operations , said Bruce Boda , senior systems manager for OIT.
  
  How Ohio State's IS Content and Code Management System WorksXpedio enables OIT's more than 200 employees to access , contribute and revise IS documents and code through its online content and code management system.
  
  Ohio State's entire collection of IS documents are stored in Xpedio where OIT's staff can access them through the Web quickly , 24 hours a day , seven days a week.The documents include database designs , documents , job operating instructions , disaster recovery procedures and OIT policies and procedures.Users can contribute these documents into Xpedio in any format , such as word processing , spreadsheet or graphic files , and Xpedio automatically converts the content to Web-based formats , such as HTML , XML , PDF and WML , for publishing to Ohio State's online documentation site.
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  Xpedio has enabled us to redirect staff resources so we're utilizing each employee's most valuable skills , Boda said.Fewer employees are involved in the day-to-day maintenance of our systems and more are utilized for long-term projects.For example , Xpedio allows our configuration management team to handle all of the daily code management activities , which frees up our application , database and infrastructure staff to work on the PeopleSoft Version 8 upgrade..
  
  By storing and managing the majority of IS documents and code online , Xpedio increases the productivity of OIT's staff.Xpedio enables OIT to perform code migrations more quickly because the third party objects are stored and organized in one place online.OIT also can rapidly identify the source of system errors and problems by tapping into Xpedio's version control feature that tracks all code changes and migrations.
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  The OIT staff is on call to repair system errors 24 hours a day , seven days a week , Boda said.By making our IS documents and code securely available online , Xpedio enables our teams to fix these problems from home if they're called in the middle of the night or on weekends..
  
  A final benefit of Xpedio is its rapid , easy installation.It took IntraNet Solutions only three hours to install Xpedio and six hours until it was completely up and running in our office , Boda said.Xpedio was extremely useful to us right out of the package , and we have had very few problems crop up as we continue to complete the entire implementation.IntraNet Solutions has provided us with excellent , highly responsive technical support.Our calls are typically returned within 30 minutes , and we usually have a fix within a day..
  
  Xpedio FeaturesXpedio enables customers to rapidly deploy business Web sites and automates the process of maintaining timely , accurate information on these sites.

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  The Ohio State University spends about $100,000 annually on DR efforts, an amount that will grow as new technology comes along, said Bruce Boda, senior systems manager at the Columbus-based university. The university began a comprehensive look at its DR efforts three years ago, supported by $250,000 in planning and implementation funds from the Ohio Board of Regents and led by the state's office of information technology.
  
  Each department has its own DR plan that's managed at the IT level. "In the event of a disaster, management will assess the impact (local, regional or national), then look at the impact on the university," Boda said.
  
  The university has a reciprocal database backup agreement with the University of Cincinnati, and that infrastructure is tested on an annual basis. Boda said that should an event require use of the backup location, most operations can be restored within 24 hours, with the rest coming online within three days.
  
  "Disaster recovery efforts are built into our daily job duties," Boda said.

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  "Ellinger went to the board and sold the idea from the standpoint of being able to save money doing this because it could be done for a lot cheaper than going to outside firms," says Bruce Boda, senior systems manager of the Office of Information Technology at OSU.
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  "The average minimum SunGard DR installation is $100,000 for an educational institution of our size," says Boda. "It ranges from $100,000 to $300,000. In comparison, our DR installation with UC will cost about $20,000 for the first year and then somewhere between $2,000 and $3,000 every year after for annual maintenance."
  
  Boda predicts they will see a return on investment three times over within the first year.
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  Boda adds that the physical hardware deployment "was actually a lot easier than we thought it would be. The actual configurations were extremely simple. We thought that the integration of the devices and networking environment was going to be difficult, but that only ended up taking about a day, where we had scheduled over a week to complete it."
  
  One of the unexpected hurdles the teams faced was working in the different storage environments - EMC doesn't play well with IBM storage, nor does Hitachi play well with IBM and EMC. They all have specific methodologies for replication and for how they talk to different disc environments, according to Boda. "That's where the [protocol converter] device came in, because it doesn't care who it's talking to," he says.
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  "Whether everybody chooses to participate with DR, that's their own choice," says Bruce Boda, senior systems manager of the Office of Information Technology at OSU.
  
  Currently, all of the 13 major colleges in the state are involved in the disaster-recovery project, with OSU and UC leading as key points of the backbone. Not all of the schools are doing replications, however. What's great about this initiative is that other schools can participate at fairly low cost. "We've been able to keep it down to around $20,000 as an entry fee," explains Boda. "At first, each of the schools that wants to get involved need only contribute what hardware they need to get connected, be it a Cisco switch or storage. So cost, in the grand scheme of things, is actually quite minimal."
  
  But what about universities that don't have a statewide fiber highway? As Boda explains, "It's definitely still possible to have a DR program, because actually, the minimum network requirements could be handled by any of the major ISPs.

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  "Ellinger went to the board and sold the idea from the standpoint of being able to save money doing this because it could be done for a lot cheaper than going to outside firms," says Bruce Boda, senior systems manager of the Office of Information Technology at OSU.
  ...
  "The average minimum SunGard DR installation is $100,000 for an educational institution of our size," says Boda. "It ranges from $100,000 to $300,000. In comparison, our DR installation with UC will cost about $20,000 for the first year and then somewhere between $2,000 and $3,000 every year after for annual maintenance."
  
  Boda predicts they will see a return on investment three times over within the first year.
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  Boda adds that the physical hardware deployment "was actually a lot easier than we thought it would be. The actual configurations were extremely simple. We thought that the integration of the devices and networking environment was going to be difficult, but that only ended up taking about a day, where we had scheduled over a week to complete it."
  
  One of the unexpected hurdles the teams faced was working in the different storage environments — EMC doesn't play well with IBM storage, nor does Hitachi play well with IBM and EMC. They all have specific methodologies for replication and for how they talk to different disc environments, according to Boda. "That's where the [protocol converter] device came in, because it doesn't care who it's talking to," he says.
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  "Whether everybody chooses to participate with DR, that's their own choice," says Bruce Boda, senior systems manager of the Office of Information Technology at OSU.
  
  Currently, all of the 13 major colleges in the state are involved in the disaster-recovery project, with OSU and UC leading as key points of the backbone. Not all of the schools are doing replications, however. What's great about this initiative is that other schools can participate at fairly low cost. "We've been able to keep it down to around $20,000 as an entry fee," explains Boda. "At first, each of the schools that wants to get involved need only contribute what hardware they need to get connected, be it a Cisco switch or storage. So cost, in the grand scheme of things, is actually quite minimal."
  
  But what about universities that don't have a statewide fiber highway? As Boda explains, "It's definitely still possible to have a DR program, because actually, the minimum network requirements could be handled by any of the major ISPs.

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  Xpedio has enabled Ohio State to reduce the amount of manpower and energy that goes into the day-to-day upkeep of IS documentation and code management by transferring the process online , said Bruce Boda , senior systems manager for Ohio State University's Office of Information Technology.We've been able to free up staff to work on longer-term projects that aren't intricately involved in our daily operations.Xpedio also enables our office to perform code migrations more quickly and rapidly identify and fix the source of system errors , ultimately reducing the amount of computer system downtime for Ohio State..
  
  Ohio State's entire collection of IS documentation , such as database designs , documents , job operating instructions , disaster recovery procedures and OIT policies , are stored in Xpedio where OIT's staff can access them through the Web quickly , 24 hours a day , seven days a week.Users can contribute documents into Xpedio in any format , such as word processing , spreadsheet or graphic files , and Xpedio automatically converts the documents to Web based formats , such as HTML , XML , PDF and WML , for publishing to Ohio State's online documentation site.Staff can check documents out of Xpedio , make changes and enter the revised documents back into the system.

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