Information Technology Services has helped bring 12 solar-powered patio umbrellas to UNC-Chapel Hill. Located near the Pit and at other spots around campus, the umbrellas enable technology users sitting at the patio tables to conveniently charge small electronic devices. Affixed … Read more

Information Technology Services is phasing out UNC-Chapel Hill’s UNC-Secure wireless network and moving the more than 50,000 devices that use that wireless connection over to “eduroam,” a secure and encrypted wireless network shared by universities around the world. Thousands of … Read more

  UNC-Chapel Hill’s Information Security Office repels thousands of attacks a day to the University’s computer systems and applications. “We also see a lot of what I’ll describe as knocking on the door, testing to see how vulnerable systems might … Read more

Since UNC-Chapel Hill launched the Sensitive Information Remediation Project last year, the campus community has demonstrated an exceptional collaborative spirit in scanning, finding, deleting and/or securing sensitive information on University computers. Matt Heinze, an information security specialist with Information Technology … Read more

Jim Gogan, who oversees networking as well as operations and engineering for Information Technology Services, finds it kind of cool and unexpected that after 38 years at the University, he’s still getting more things to do instead of fewer. Now … Read more

Research Computing has wrapped up four years of work on a nationwide cancer genome research effort in which the Information Technology Services unit hit its all-time high storage usage amount for a single project. From early June 2011 until January … Read more

What’s good for people can also be good for computers. Just as we humans sometimes break a big task into smaller, less burdensome components, Research Computing at Information Technology Services has designed a way to ease the stress on ITS’ … Read more

The Sensitive Information Remediation Project, better known as Project SIR, is now more than 40 percent deployed, up from 20 percent three weeks ago. Since the project launched last year to scan, find, delete and/or secure sensitive information on University … Read more

Mark Reed Title: Research Associate, ITS Research Computing Number of years with ITS: 11 Personal: Lives in Durham with his fiancé, Sandy. They have six grown children and three grandchildren. Education: Ph.D., masters and bachelor’s degrees in physics from UNC-Chapel … Read more

Customer Case Study As UNC-Chapel Hill’s Microbiome Core Facility increasingly collects more sequencing data information from microbiomes, it requires more support from ITS Research Computing for data analysis and processing. The Client The Microbiome Core Facility within the UNC-Chapel Hill … Read more

When we think about the human body playing host to many non-human cells, particularly bacteria and yeast, perhaps some people’s “ick” response is understandable. And yet –as anyone who has sought out and consumed bacteria-added yogurt can attest, some of … Read more

Shubin Liu, a Senior Computational Scientist with Information Technology Services’ Research Computing unit, has enthusiastically contributed for the past five years to the first phase of University-led research into advancing solar energy technologies for producing solar fuels. Research now in … Read more