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
Remember when talking in class got you a one-way ticket to the principal’s office? Thanks to technology, the classroom experience has come a long way – and it’s time for the infrastructure to catch up. Since the summer of 2013, … 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
WHO All users with @live.unc.edu (Office 365) email account WHEN Sunday, March 8 from 8AM – 4PM WHAT Information Technology Services is making a change to how email logins are authenticated. There will be an email outage on Sunday, March … 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
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
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
