Project Theme: Building Capability

Replace the existing campus wireless services contracts (Neutral Hosting) with a new set of wireless provider (Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T) service contracts and implement new campus 5G services.  We expect to support a seamless transition away from the current service contract after we establish the contracts and new funding model.  The project includes new 5G services, and new positions (people and roles) to manage the services on campus so we can provide reliable outdoor and… Read More about 5G and Wireless Service.

ITS continues to install high-speed fiber connections throughout campus, making our networks faster and more reliable. Projects underway include: Curtis Media Center: This new run of fiber will connect the Curtis Media Center with Carmichael Arena and Memorial Hall. School of Medicine: This project will add a new fiber backbone from ITS Manning to MacNider Hall. It will also move the tier one location from Isaac M. Taylor Hall to Marsico Lung Institute. Tennis Center:… Read More about 2022 Fiber Projects.

The NetApp AltaVault is reaching the end of its life cycle in 12/2023. We need a replacement solution to move identified data off-premise for specified time periods. The replacement solution will be an automated tool that: moves data from on-premise to off-premise, logs the process and expires the data at the appropriate time, allows us to retrieve the data and restore it on-premise when required, and have a cost model that fits the ITS budget…. Read More about AltaVault Replacement (NetApp CBS).

The life cycle of the current Cisco UCS* hardware, purchased in 2015, is coming to an end.  The current hardware does not have modern compute speed, and, as it ages, is more prone to failure. We plan to migrate all work loads to the new server blades by the end of the 2022. *Unified Computing System

The purpose of the project is to implement a 3rd party solution to allow UNC to do capital budgeting, the annual budgeting cycle, and associated reporting across the Enterprise. Currently, we use resource intensive manual processes to do UNC’s budgeting, which has led to a reduced  ability to properly plan for large capital expenditures. The success of this project will be measured by the ability of UNC to handle the annual 2023 budgeting cycle with… Read More about UNC Budget Tool.

This project will implement the ServiceNow Asset Management module. The ServiceNow Asset Management module will be responsible for managing the life cycle of end-point device hardware assets for ITS and SOM Managed Desktop Services groups. Standardizing tracking and reporting on the data attributes relating to ownership, status, and location of hardware assets will be helpful to our teams. Benefiting our clients by allowing IT to identify the most at-risk end-point devices in a department that should… Read More about ServiceNow Asset Management.

This project will migrate Research Computing’s technical documentation off of the ITS WordPress site. The project will also refresh the content, making it easier to find and read.

The Mass Storage system (also known as StorNext or /ms) is used for archiving research data files and storing very large files, files that are too large to fit within an individual researcher’s or a department’s storage space. This project will move the Mass Storage system to the next generation of hardware.

This project will develop the Enterprise Data Warehouse’s most-used data sets in a more efficient type of schema called a “star schema” data model. The new tables and views will be available for internal use within the data warehouse, allowing the team to better serve customers.  

This is an ITS sponsored project for improvement of infrastructure. This project will change the method we use to back up our enterprise systems databases from Oracle Recovery Manager to the database snapshot method (a database snapshot is a consistent, read-only copy of a database). Switching to this method will reduce the time it takes to back up our databases. This project will provide patches and hardware changes as needed. It will also reorganize the… Read More about DB Snapshot Preparation Work.

This project is performing a lifecycle replacement of storage controllers and disk that are nearing the end of their useful life. As hardware ages, it becomes less reliable, the potential for data loss grows, and maintenance costs increase. This project is focusing on replacing: ESMC0 – the hardware supporting Storage.unc.edu and SecNas.unc.edu. ESMC5 – the hardware that provides some primary storage for Splunk and serves as a backup destination for a majority of ITS data.

The University’s phone service is moving from Verizon to AT&T. When the University’s contract ends in 2023, Verizon is discontinuing the service we use. This provided the opportunity to evaluate other providers, save money, and provide additional features that support mobile and remote work settings. The move affects all campus phone lines, such as fax lines, conference room phones and main lines.