Office of Technology Integration - Who are we?

There is a great deal of technology in use at FSU and a lot of technology expertise at the university. Some of that happens to be in the central technology organizations listed here, but much of it is not. A key responsibility of OTI is to help the FSU community leverage the available technology resources and expertise to support the goals of the university.

The Office of Technology Integration, headed by FSU Associate Vice President and Interim CIO Paul Strouts, consists of Information Resource Management (IRM), Information Systems (IS), Office of Telecommunications (OTC), University Computing Services (UCS), User Services (US), and Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC).

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Planned Budget Cuts

Florida State University President T.K. Wetherell has recently asked FSU Administrators to take aggressive steps to stabilize its budget in the face of reduced funding from the State of Florida.

As a result, the Office of Technology Integration (OTI), Florida State University has carefully evaluated the costs to support and continue various FSU Technology Services. More...

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OTI Upgrading Email Services

OTI has implemented a new email system and will begin migrating uses from the existing garnet, mailer and admin email servers over the next year. More details on the new system and the migration schedule are available.

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Integrated Technology Plan

FSU unit's IT plans will help improve coordination of FSU's IT investment and assessment of what services are available centrally and possibly allow units to reallocate some of the resources they do have. OTI’s immediate focus will be to work with campus units to put together their IT plans in time to assist with planning for the next fiscal year.

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Florida LambdaRail

Florida LambdaRail is a consortium of higher education institutions who are cooperating to build a state-wide high-bandwidth research and education network for Florida. The consortium is embodied as Florida LambdaRail LLC, a Florida limited liability company.
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