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Site License Advisory Team

Site License Advisory Team. June 30, 2011 meeting. Agenda. LANDesk Agreement Information Secunia CSI and custom PSI information and testing Known changes to software pricing in FY12 100% ECAL uplift and what this means for OSU Safeboot renewals and future picture

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Site License Advisory Team

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  1. Site License Advisory Team June 30, 2011 meeting

  2. Agenda • LANDesk Agreement Information • Secunia CSI and custom PSI information and testing • Known changes to software pricing in FY12 • 100% ECAL uplift and what this means for OSU • Safeboot renewals and future picture • Timeline for upcoming product renewals in the first half of FY12 • Anti-Malware options ahead • Minor SLS changes • The new OCIO Site Licensing website: a preview

  3. LANDesk • LANDesk agreement is signed • Departments will purchase on their own; not required to switch if using a different product • $4.82/FTE for Management Suite (+ $.49/FTE for maintenance/“MYUP”) • $1.64/FTE for Security Suite • Support in “incident packs” (5 for $1,180.73; 10 for $2,265.07; 25 for $5,301.21) • Based on FTE count: All departmental FTE’s must be covered • Similar to Microsoft count, but smaller • Students (GRA/GTA) removed from FTE counts • Purchased through GovConnection • Gary McMasters and Pete Kelley can provide quotes • Available to faculty/staff, for use on all managed machines (including consultants’ personally-owned machines!) • Arts and Sciences Savings Report: • Estimated costs pre-agreement: $448,000 over 3 years • Estimated costs post-agreement: $40,068 over 3 years (8.9%)

  4. Secunia • Two products: • Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) • Agent (or agent-less) scanning and patch management • Suitable for “all OSU locations, and for machines managed by the University” • Personal Software Inspector (PSI) • Custom-built PSI available for Fac/Staff/Student personal machines • Existing PSI installations can be linked in easily • Link ID: “buckeyes” • Working on roll out • Currently examining account provisioning • OCIO Service Catalog and Design is working on this • Test version up and running for OCIO • Target date: August 30, 2011 • No cost to departments for use • Expires in late 2015

  5. SLS Pricing Changes (known) • SAS Windows Workstation: • Currently: $27/year • Increasing to: $33-$35/year • Cause: Decreased demand (25%) • SPSS: • Remains at $32/year • Cost shares remain • Parallels: • Cost being re-evaluated; likely to remain the same for new copies, though maintenance may decrease due to better pricing. • Nvivo: • Currently: $42 • Increasing to: $43 • Cause: Decreased demand (4%)

  6. 100% ECAL • Business and Finance (the group that pays for and bills for the MS Campus Agreement) decided to uplift 100% • All units are now covered for ECAL • OSU now manages two agreements instead of three (CA and Select: before there were 2 CA’s) • Cost difference (per FTE): • CoreCAL: $38.45 • ECAL: $44.16

  7. Safeboot Renewals • Renewal of all Safeboot licenses complete • Cost recovery prepared to begin • To obtain the new Safeboot Grant #, purchase the renewal • Pricing to be announced today or tomorrow • Current Grant # expires on 7/15 • If you run Safeboot, take stock of your installations today

  8. Upcoming Software RenewalsFirst half, FY12 • Nvivo • Expiration July 10 • PO cut, pending codes. • MATLAB • Expiration August 31 • Pricing locked and communicated to cost share holders. • Minitab • Expiration: August 31 • Pricing locked. Minitab Server will be updated after start of the Fiscal Year, likely by August 1. • Systat • Expiration: August 31 • Pricing in negotiation. Increase from vendor expected, currently unknown. • SAS • Expiration September 30 • Pricing in negotiation. Cost increase very likely. • Sigmaplot • Expiration: October 31 • Pricing under discussion. Cost expected to remain stable. • JMP • Expiration: Oct. 31 • Pricing in negotiation; seeking to add regionals. Cost increase possible, but will work with cost share holders

  9. McAfee, Forefront, and the Magic Quadrant • The Quadrant is for endpoint protection suites only • OSU is only using AV and AS • Forefront does not have a complete suite • McAfee is shown as leading because of the size of their suite • According to Gartner, FF and McAfee are “on par” in terms of scanning and detection.

  10. Minor SLS Changes • CoreFTP is being removed from OSU SLS • Replaced by FileZilla on Windows side • CoreFTP does not support SFTP, cannot be used for OSU Web Hosting • Redirect links for Eudora and SSH SecureShell removed

  11. Preview of new OCIO SLS site Preview

  12. Identity Finder • OCIO is actively pursuing this product. • Identity Finder is the recommended software that OCIO Security supports going forward • Seeking a license that covers the enterprise product • Perpetual license • FTE count (not node/computer) • OCIO is seeking internal funds; target for purchase: Sept. 2011 • Cost recovery is currently unknown, if any

  13. Questions/Comments

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