| CNIC Work Group Summary - March 2005 |
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| Introduction |
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This summary of CNIC work group activities for the period of March 2005 is provided by the Peer Communications Group. It is intended as a brief synopsis of the activities of various CNIC work groups.
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| Accounting |
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The Accounting Work Group was formerly known as the Finance Committee.
This group has recently completed a survey of agency federal funding. Its current work in progress relates to Internal Service Funding (ISF) recommendation. ISF is the current model for fund transfer between agencies. This recommendation will relate to the chargeback model for shared services provided by the state data center.
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| Human Resources |
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SEIU and management reached an agreement to resolve SEIU´s Demand to Bargain on the impact of the state data center consolidation. The Letter of Agreement extends voluntary recognition to SEIU to represent all represented employees in the state data center and outlines procedures for selection and layoff.
The Human Resource Work Group will now begin work on implementation of the bargaining Letter of Agreement. This work group is comprised of human resource managers from CNIC agencies and representatives of the DAS Human Resource Services Division.
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| Mainframe |
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The Mainframe Work Group is divided into two sections. Their major activities and accomplishments are as follows:
zSeries:
- Prepared draft of skills required for the zSeries environment.
- Reviewed capacity planning report prepared by mainframe vendor Mainline.
- The group recommends the cost of two planned capacity upgrades (DHS and ODOT) should be included in cost baseline because the upgrades are needed independent of the CNIC project.
- Operational tool pricing - vendors are providing planning numbers for their software.
- Operational tool architecture - draft created (undergoing review).
- Capacity estimate and model selection - the group has agreed on capacity projections. and model selection for two options.
iSeries (AS/400):
- Prepared draft of skills required for the iSeries environment.
- Pricing options are being reviewed to identify hardware consolidation opportunities.
- It has been determined by the group that there are no cost effective opportunities for software consolidations.
- The group agrees to recommend that the three in-scope iSeries should be consolidated to two iSeries by putting the DVA workload onto an iSeries that has either the DOR or DOC workload.
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| Network |
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The Network Work Group has successfully completed the architecture stage of the CNIC project. The Network Architecture Document, which includes all of the recommendations put forth by the Network Work Group, has been delivered on schedule to the CNIC Steering Committee for review. The recommendations will be formally presented to the Steering Committee on Wednesday, April 13. The Network Work Group will then proceed into the detailed design stage of the project.
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| Peer Communications |
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The Peer Communications Group has developed internal processes for communication management to support its mission to enhance the flow of project information to and from agency technical staff.
The group has participated in development and dissemination of responses to project rumors, FAQ, and sponsored a Web portal for state agency personnel seeking information about the CNIC project. Members also participated in a tour of the state data center construction site.
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| Server |
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The Server Work Group has successfully completed the following milestones and deliverables: development of server standards; gathering server security requirements; and development of server configuration requirements. Works in progress include building a vendor list and specific questions or issues for vendor presentations, and development of a skills matrix.
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| Service Management |
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The Service Management Work Group recently agreed to a common set of service definitions to be used by the agencies to help define their data center service requirements and current service levels.
A survey was distributed to all agencies on April 6, 2005 which will be used to collect relevant data center service related information. This information will then be used by the group to craft a menu of services or “service catalogue” with associated service level agreements to be implemented in the new state data center.
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| Single Perimeter |
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The Single Perimeter Work Group is a part of the CNIC project and a larger enterprise security effort being coordinated by the Enterprise Security Office.
Completed activities:
- Decisions were made on the vendors of the networking and firewall products.
- DAS personnel will provide management services of the new perimeter firewalls for each agency for the time being.
- There is a secondary discussion as to providing training and/or experience for other agency personnel on those devices with no set plan yet.
- The Change Management Process is mostly finalized with only small changes needed relevant to the needs of a multi-agency cooperative effort.
- The work group was downsized to a more effective size -- comprised of the three core agencies slated to be involved (DAS, DHS and ODOT).
- Single Perimeter equipment was ordered from Cisco Corp. in mid-March.
- The Proof of Concept lab for the networking design for single perimeter was held April 5-7 with Oregon agency representatives attending.
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| Storage |
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The Storage Work Group has agreed to the following recommendations for Steering Committee approval:
- Tiered levels of service and performance categories
- Incorporating storage tape into the tiered levels of service and performance
- Service levels for backup and archive.
Other completed work group activites:
- Development of high level skills that will be important for storage management operations at the state data center
- Validation of agency storage data with all 12 CNIC agencies
- Vendor presentations.
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