Strategic Implications for VRE(s)

• Possibility of culture change to service-oriented architecture approach (“Layer & Stack”)

• • Would assume a standards-based culture for interoperability
  • shared and domain-specific services

• Emphasis on University benefiting from IT innovation wherever located

• • fostering innovation, championing projects, enabling transition to service

• Services already in development

• • Improvements to networks to enable local access grids, wireless, etc
  • OxGrid – Campus grid integrating NGS, supercomputer and desktop resources
  • Institutional (research) repository
  • Research Discovery Service