For the first time, ITS has automated vendor quarterly patching for two of the platforms that run core critical business applications for the University. This significant achievement expedites performing security updates and fixes and saves considerable staff time. In May … Read more
The Carolina CloudApps team updated its underlying software, Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform, from version 3 to version 4 in April. “During the week of April 19, we successfully migrated 1,613 projects with minimal downtime and minimal issues,” said Patrick … Read more
As temperatures rise and the days begin to get longer, our thoughts turn to … the annual performance review and plan season. What, that’s not what you had in mind? Regardless, performance management season will soon be upon us. This … Read more
In mid-August, Enterprise Applications worked with the College of Arts and Sciences, The Graduate School and several other groups across campus to launch the Graduate Student Hub. Before the Hub, each graduate program had its own way of tracking its … Read more
This summer, ITS is starting to upgrade the University’s Oracle software to a newer version. The upgrade, which ITS Infrastructure & Operations expect to complete by November, will monumentally change the way ITS configures the infrastructure of Carolina’s databases. With … 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 leaders bolstered relations with Splunk during a visit last week by the company’s President of Worldwide Field Operations. On January 15, Splunk’s Susan St. Ledger met with UNC-Chapel Hill leadership for part of the day and joined the Kenan … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill will retire the Andrew File System (AFS) on November 13, 2018. The statement is simple. More interesting and intricate, however, are the prudent steps the campus is taking to assist users through the decommissioning process and the history … Read more
