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“ WE ARE A PUBLICALLY FUNDED INSTITUTION , WE DON ’ T HAVE MILLIONS TO INVEST IN UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITY THAT MIGHT NOT PRODUCE RESULTS FOR SEVERAL YEARS , WE NEED TO BE MORE NIMBLE AND EMBRACE THE OPPORTUNITIES OF CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES WHEN IT MAKES SENSE ”
— David O ’ Connor , Deputy CIO , UTS
443 the entire functionality of a data arena on their laptop . “ This basically enables us to replicate the data arena for development as widely as we want ,” adds Burns .
UTS values cross-university collaboration , and has teamed up with other institutions to develop a research data catalogue , “ Stash ”, which is already on its third iteration . “ The uptake internally is accelerating and we ’ ve now got hundreds of researchers using the Stash platform ,” says Gale . “ We design and develop in close consultation with the researchers because ultimately it needs to make their job easier . Wherever there are opportunities for automation , for example in the creation of data management plans , we take them . One of our goals is to remove as much administrative overhead as we can from our researchers , it ’ s an ongoing process ”. “ This is just one example of our broader evolution from project-thinking to product-thinking ” says O ’ Connor , “ In the modern IT world , very little is launched and finished .”
The team has also needed to be
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