About IT
Mission
Information Technology empowers student success and enhances teaching and learning through the delivery of technology, innovation, and partnerships with Butler and the community.
Vision
Differentiate Butler as the University of choice for students, faculty, and staff by anticipating opportunities and serving as a strategic business engine to drive transformation in the Butler community and beyond.
Guiding Principles
- Relationship—Serve each person through collaborative leadership and lasting relationships that connect unique goals to the University mission.
- Value—Focus work efforts consistently on the delivery of services that provide the highest value to the University.
- Service—Provide excellent service through highly trained and motivated staff.
- Reliable, Secure, and Sustainable—Utilize good processes and ensure systems are reliable, secure, and current to meet constituents’ needs of today and in the future.
- Entrepreneurial—Drive ideas to solutions.
- Teamwork—Cooperate and collaborate to get the job done.
Contact or Visit IT
Irwin Library
4553 Clarendon Road
Indianapolis, Indiana 46208
Technology questions & support: contact the IT Help Desk
Directions to IT
Irwin Library is across from Atherton Union and connected to Dugan Hall. Metered visitor parking is available in front of the Pharmacy and Health Sciences Building.
Organizational Structure
Information Technology is comprised of the following teams:
- Help Desk
- Operations
- Enterprise Architecture
- Information Security
- Applications and Development
- Student Systems and Data
- Partnership
Data Center
Butler University’s 1,500 square foot data center opened in 2009 and houses all major systems including BigDawg, Butler’s supercomputer, and connections to iLight and the Internet.
Butler strives to use efficient and environmentally friendly equipment (more information below) in the data center. A carefully engineered power infrastructure, use of recyclable materials, heat recovery, and high efficiency servers are a few of the ways Butler reduces the data center’s environmental impact.
Redundant cooling, uninterruptible power supply, diesel generator, and gas fire suppression protect the data center from unplanned downtime.
Green Initiatives
As part of Butler’s overall program to become a more sustainable campus, IT continually works to improve the sustainability of our operations and infrastructure. By looking at everything from our data center to the paper used in printers we continue to make strides toward reducing our environmental impact.
Drop off electronic waste at the IT Help Desk. IT accepts a wide range of devices and accessories. These items are collected, securely processed, and kept out of landfills. For more information, click here.
In accordance with the Butler University Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (BUSCA), the ability to change sleep settings on Butler-owned Windows computers has been disabled and the time before a computer goes to sleep is 10 minutes. This initiative reduces energy use and increases efficiency and cost effectiveness. Butler-owned Mac users can sleep settings by navigating to Settings > Lock Screen > Turn display off on battery when inactive. Change to preferred amount of time (recommended: “For 10 minutes”).
- Using industry standard hot aisle/cold aisle design to improve cooling efficiency and save energy
- Using much of the heat generated by servers and other equipment for re-use elsewhere in the building
- Using high voltage power distribution to improve efficiency
- All furniture in the network operations center (NOC) is made with recycled materials
- Fewer, more efficient power supplies than traditional rack mount servers
- Fewer power supplies and less wasted energy
- Less packing material and less waste when the equipment is recycled at the end-of-life
- More than 99% of our servers are virtual
- Improved resource utilization and efficiency
- Using thin provisioning to reduce the number of required disks—will grow and use power as necessary instead of provisioning everything in advance
- Increased use of solid state storage (SSD’s use less than 10% of the power of traditional disks)
- Continued use of cloud storage to improve flexibility and decrease costs.
- Many offices use document imaging and scanning to PDF instead of making paper copies of documents required for University processes.
- Most Butler-owned computers have settings that align with eco-friendly printing processes, including an automatic setting to print two-sided.
- “Think Before You Print”
- Drop off electronic waste at the IT Help Desk. IT accepts a wide range of devices and accessories. These items are collected, securely processed, and kept out of landfills. For more information, click here.
- Turn off or put your personal computer to sleep when you aren’t using it. If you are using a Butler-owned computer, at the end of the day turn off monitors and log off the computer, but leave the computer on to facilitate the updating process.
- Always recycle paper.