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Further, the entire faculty, students, staff, departments, authorized visitors/visiting faculty and

others who may be granted permission to use the IT Infrastructure, must comply with the
guidelines. Certain violations of IT policy laid down by VIT by any institution member may even

result in disciplinary action against the offender by institution authorities.

The Acceptable use of policies are applicable to Employees, Students, Vendors & Visitors. CTS

have framed various policies like Procurement, Installation of Hardware, Network and Software.
E-mail account has been facilitated to employee, and students under E-mail Use policy which is

reviewed and maintained whenever the modification happens. Website Hosting and Database
Usage policy has its method and hierarchy which is followed systematically.

VIT has proper budgeting process to meet the IT budget needs of every school/department.

Requirement gathering happens at school/departments. Once the IT budget is finalized at the

school/department level, the approved budget is consolidated at CTS and arrive the total IT
Budget requirement.

An average Annual Budget of Rs.17.87 Crore per year is provided on improving the IT facility

which shows the commitment of our Management in building the world-class IT facility in our

campus. This includes the Capital and Operational budget of Vellore and Chennai Campus.

IT infrastructure has been widely spread across connecting 56 buildings with very high-speed
robust network backbone. Our Computer network is built on CISCO switching platform with

backbone running on 10Giga at present. 12000+ IP enabled devices are connected to this fast
network. Understanding the demands of faculty and students to use digital media for their

research, teaching & learning process, 9.5 Gbps of internet bandwidth is made available through

four major Internet service providers.

Over 2231 WiFi access points are positioned across the campus to facilitate internet access to our
students, faculty and guests while they are in the campus. Seamless internet access given to

students through Hotspots and well-planned WiFi network at Hostel rooms.

The comprehensive infrastructure includes 68 physical servers with 366TB of storage for Private

Cloud with 220+ VMs and 500 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI) implemented for the students
to work with engineering software anytime, anywhere and from any device. Our campus IT

facility secured by implementing the best of the security solution from Palo Alto, McAfee, CISCO

AMP and K7 which includes Next Generation firewall, Application firewall, Email Security,
Advance Malware Protection, Endpoint Threat Protection, Openness etc.

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