Three teams and seven individuals received IT Awards on November 5 for their outstanding work over the past year serving UNC-Chapel Hill. The 2019 IT Awards Committee selected the honorees from among one of the largest groups of nominees in … Read more

More than 200 people attended the Information Security Office’s day-long SecurityCon event on October 9 at the Carolina Union. This was the second annual SecurityCon, a day-long event for students, faculty and staff interested in learning more about information security. … Read more

At its meeting next month, the Information Security Liaison (ISL) program’s advisory board will mark eight months since its initial kick-off meeting. After that kick-off meeting in March, advisory board members met in June to conduct the first official meeting. … Read more

ITS Enterprise Application’s Mechelle Clayton has been named Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor of the ITS division. Clayton, whose permanent role is director of non-PeopleSoft applications in support of Finance and Operations, the Friday Center and ITS, took the helm of … Read more

Leader. Partner. Learner. When her campus partners, peers and staff talk about Fran Dykstra, those three words are spoken time and again. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to have a conversation about Fran and not hear those words come … Read more

ITS Enterprise Reporting & Departmental Systems was moved from ITS Enterprise Applications in April and is now its own distinct operating unit. Enterprise Reporting & Departmental Systems now reports directly to the Office of the CIO. The team has 16 … Read more

Two members of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Information Security Office launch their own podcast series today. IT Security Specialist Charlie Mewshaw and Network Firewall Lead Michael Williams teamed up to produce their podcast, “Data @ Rest,” to reach information security professionals and … Read more

A month following the launch of ServiceNow, campus members are acclimating to and finding value in the University’s new primary ticketing software. That’s what user feedback and usage stats indicate for ServiceNow, which replaced Carolina’s old Remedy system on July … Read more

ITS has contributed to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Operational Excellence initiative that seeks to create a high-functioning administrative operation. Operational Excellence, which aims to identify efficiencies, cost avoidance and potential revenue sources to help fund the University’s strategic investments, began in fall … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff and students have taken advantage of Zoom video conferencing since the technology became available campus wide in August 2018. During the 2018-2019 fiscal year, more than 8,000 unique users hosted in excess of 50,000 Zoom meetings … Read more

ITS Digital Services is preparing for a possible transition of hosting its web services from local servers to a cloud environment. The services that could transition to the cloud include web.unc.edu, sites.unc.edu and the University’s homepage (unc.edu). These WordPress services … Read more

ITS Digital Services is managing the volume of web.unc.edu sites to ensure only updated, accurate information is found on University sites. Web.unc.edu is a web publishing service that enables campus individuals to create their own website. The widespread availability of … Read more