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Impact of 5% Material IT Operation Costs Cut at CERN IT Department

The 5% budget cut impacts incompressible IT operation costs such as support, networking, software licenses, and maintenance. This will affect LHC Computing, software products, and service reliability. Efforts to maintain services might increase as costs are unlikely to decrease in the future due to recurrent cuts.

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Impact of 5% Material IT Operation Costs Cut at CERN IT Department

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  1. Effects of the 5% cut on Materials IT Operation Headings Frédéric Hemmer CERN IT Department ACCU - 9 September 2014

  2. Incompressible Costs ACCU - 9 September 2014 • 80-85% of IT Operation Budget is incompressible: • Support Contracts (Network & Telephony first line, Helpdesk, Videoconferencing, etc…) • External Networking Contracts (Geant, Commodity Internet) • Telephony (Switchboard contract, PABX) • Software licences & support (Apple, Cadence, MathWorks, Microsoft, Oracle, RedHat, ServiceNow, Spectrum, TSM, Vidyo, etc…) • Hardware Maintenance (UPS, Tape Libraries, Printers, etc..) • This does affect the LHC Computing • In a first approximation

  3. Increasing Costs for Software Products ACCU - 9 September 2014

  4. Impact ACCU - 9 September 2014 • Difficult to assess precisely now • Before the 2014 invoices have been received… • … but it is clear that there will be an impact • Priority will be given to LHC Operations & Physics • E.g. Technical Network and Critical Databases • Probable impact on server renewals/maintenance, additional software licenses for users, projects such as extended wireless coverage, audio/video conferencing, service desk… • Likely to affect reliability of services (not only IT) • Will require more effort to maintain aging service • This is not going to improve in future years as • The cut is recurrent • Contracts and software licenses costs are probably not going to decrease

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