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>> Narrator Derek Kranvinsky, UH Manoa student: The University of Hawaii Information Technology
Center represents a massive upgrade for the ten-campus, UH System. The state-of-the-art,
six-story, 74,000 square foot facility was dedicated December 2013 on the UH Manoa campus.
>> David Lassner , University of Hawaiʻi Interim President: This building is about
reliability, energy efficient, security and better housing of our physical assets and
support staff.
>> Narrator: At the center's blessing ceremony, UH Interim President David Lassner stressed
the huge impact the $41 million center would have on UH students, faculty and staff statewide.
>> Lassner: This is where we will be housing our student information, our financial information,
our personnel information, and these are facilities that now don't need to be duplicated on all
of our campuses.
>> Narrator: Freeing up space on all campuses since the servers containing that information
are now stored in a highly secured, 8,000 square foot data center on the facility's
second floor.
>> Lassner: We have card access, both to the building, but also to the data center and
the rooms. And again, when this stuff is scattered all around the campus, you're never quite
sure who might have access to those rooms.
>> Narrator: Top-notch security is just one of the IT Center's many benefits.
>> Lassner: The biggest impact on students will be the assurance of more reliable service
for their online learning, student information systems, access to global resources, high
performance computing to support innovation and research, data storage to support big
data projects and the work we are doing on all of the disciplines, the scholarly work
on all of the campuses.
>> Narrator: IT staff and offices from multiple locations are now housed in one central facility
that includes an emergency situation room, training lab, digital media center and videoconference
rooms. The office space is set up to foster cooperation and collaboration including a
help desk where students, faculty and staff can walk-in, call or email. The IT Center
is also state-of-the-art when it comes to energy efficiency with an expected LEED silver
certification and includes three rooftop generators and battery storage for all the communications
and information systems.
>> Lassner: So the devices and systems and services that are housed here are more likely
to be available than anywhere else in the UH System through manmade and natural disasters.