The document discusses the Jisc Costing IT Services (CITS) project which aims to identify the costs of an IT department's activities, enable benchmarking and cost savings, and provide data to support decision making. The CITS project involves developing a financial tool based on a previous University of York IT cost exercise to record costs of central and local IT like staff, hardware, software, and energy. Recorded costs will be mapped to cost objects like services, activities, and strategic decisions around cloud, storage, and responsibility. The document also notes that cloud may not always be the most cost effective solution for high-performance computing and storage and that different solutions may be needed.
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• Knowing IT costs to make informed decisions
• The outputs you will receive
• Benchmarking with peers
• How Janet works with you
• Our charges
• Modelling costs of cloud vs in-house
• Questions & discussion
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• Energy use from 2010 onwards
• Next steps
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4. Jisc Costing IT Services (CITS) Project
CITS Stage 1:
Janet X-Ray
Financial Tool
University of
York IT Cost
Exercise
CITS Stage 2
• Repurposing York spreadsheet and
experience into a generic tool
• Costing specific activities e.g. data centres
• Financial skills learning materials for IT staff
5. PURPOS
E
• Identify what an IT
department does
• Enable benchmarking
• Find improvements
and/or cost savings
• Provide more robust
data for specific
decisions
• Determine charges for
services
• Devolve budgets or
assign financial
responsibility
• Track cost and VFM
improvements over
time
• Improve accountancy
systems to better
support decisionmaking
An IT Cost Model
RECORDE
D COSTS
Central IT
Staff
Hardware
Software
Other
Local IT
Staff
Hardware
Software
Other
Estates
Energy
Cooling
Power Supply
Other
Space/TRAC
Depreciation
COST
OBJECTS
Services
Individual
Group
Activities
Data Centre
Storage
V Machines
USE
Strategic
Decisions
Cloud
Investment
Decisions
Storage
Management
Responsibility
Benchmarking
6. Costing HPC and Storage
• Not Just Cost
- other factors
- cloud may work best as part
of strategic change
• Not for everything
- non urgent HPC
- lower tier storage
• Different solutions
7. HPC & Cloud Considerations
• Not just cost
- other factors
- cloud may be best as part of strategic change
• Not for everything
- non urgent HPC
- lower tier storage
• Multiple solutions e.g. for HPC
- compute/store/memory bundles
- speed & ‘virtual cores’
