In this Q&A, ITS Middleware Services Manager Patrick Casey talks about Splunk–what it is, why ITS uses it and where UNC-Chapel Hill is headed in its use of the system. This Q&A is the fourth post in a Getting to … Read more

In this Q&A, ITS Middleware Services Manager Patrick Casey explains what Middleware is, why the team has been growing and what the group is working on. This Q&A is the first of five posts in a Getting to Know series … Read more

In the second post of a Getting to Know series about the ITS Policy Office at UNC-Chapel Hill, IT Policy Facilitator Kim Stahl, who is the entire ITS Policy Office, introduces us to terminology that is key to the office and … Read more

In this Q&A, IT Policy Facilitator Kim Stahl of the ITS Policy Office at UNC-Chapel Hill explains the role of the ITS Policy Office, what she’s working on in 2017 and why this work matters. This Q&A is the first … Read more

During the past year, Chris Kielt, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, did what he always does. He led the Information Technology Services team in its support and enrichment of technology offerings and services at UNC-Chapel Hill. … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill student Brent Comstock, who is majoring in business and religion studies, is CEO of BCom Solutions, Managing Director of the CarolinaGo mobile app and Student Entrepreneur in Residence at Launch Chapel Hill. He first shared this reflection of … Read more

Three teams and seven individual members of UNC-Chapel Hill’s information technology community have earned recognition for their professional achievements over the past year. The recipients of Carolina’s IT Awards were announced on Friday, October 14, at the CTC Retreat and … Read more

Micki Jernigan, Carolina’s Chief Privacy Officer since January, explains what the Institutional Privacy Office does, why it is important to the University and what she enjoys about the job.      What is the Institutional Privacy Office?    The Institutional … Read more

  One group within Information Technology Services serves the technology needs of nearly 9,000 individuals and more than 90 buildings and has quite a variety of devices to maintain and troubleshoot. ResNET, which stands for Residential Networking, Education & Technology, … Read more

As software licenses become more complex and software prices rise, Information Technology Services is saving money by managing its relationships with vendors. ITS is investing in vendor management as a way to reduce costs and avoid other costs associated with … Read more

Fiber is what enables us to communicate on campus. For many of us, that’s where our understanding of fiber-optic cable ends. Fiber, for the record, is what digital data travels through in the form of pulses of light. Essential, like … Read more

Ken Yow’s “day job” has worked out pretty well. When Yow came to work at UNC-Chapel Hill as a clerk-typist in Group Child Care Consultant Services of the School of Social Work in December 1976, he certainly wasn’t expecting to … Read more