As February comes to a close, ITS News wraps up two months packed full of news about comings and goings, technology resolutions and the many activities of the Infrastructure & Operations and the Communication Technologies groups at Information Technology Services. … Read more

If you have worked in information technology for a few decades like Jim Gogan, you’ve seen many wondrous advances in the industry as well as some wrong turns and absolute flops. So what technological advancement that could benefit his work … Read more

Discussions abound these days about The Internet of Things—this interconnection of all our gadgets, appliances and computing devices that can share information. Those conversations, though, usually have to do with consumer privacy and business security issues or future marketing opportunities … Read more

Leveraging a new source of sustainable funding, Information Technology Services is upgrading the core network that carries voice and data across the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. This network refurbishment entails replacing outdated switches, improving in-building wiring and ensuring a more robust, … Read more

The phone system at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center will be changed from the legacy AT&T Centrex phone system to the new Verizon Business Hosted IP Centrex phone system, more commonly known as Voice over IP (VoIP), this Thursday, February … Read more

This year Information Technology Services will decommission the University’s mainframe after a decade-long goodbye and a major cultural shift for the employees who have operated it. For a time, the mainframe was the only computer doing all the business work … Read more

Infrastructure & Operations is implementing a new compute solution to host virtual servers. Information Technology Services I&O hosts about 1,000 virtual servers and that number is expected to grow dramatically. The new solution consolidates servers, storage and networking into a … Read more