On January 6, 2022, ITS will be able to turn off 16 servers, free up capacity on other infrastructure like UCS and Splunk, and save staff time simply by moving the campus to a cloud-based method of authenticating to use … Read more

The University has a more accessible, robust and reliable WordPress platform now that ITS has finished a massive effort of cleaning up and moving the decade-old WordPress system to the cloud. This was no ordinary migration. It was not a … Read more

The University’s Carolina Next strategic plan calls for adopting a multi-cloud systems and services strategy as a way to reduce costs and increase research flexibility. Toward that initiative to transform administrative operations via a multi-cloud strategy, ITS has been pursuing … Read more

This summer ITS Digital Services will move the web.unc.edu WordPress network to the cloud while also making some big changes to improve accessibility and branding. Web.unc.edu is a self-service network on which anyone with an Onyen can create a professional-looking … Read more

Scotia Roopnarine has joined ITS Infrastructure & Operations as the Director of Applications. He will oversee PeopleSoft Administration, Business Process Automation, Middleware Services, Linux Administration and Database Administration teams – about 32 people. Roopnarine comes from Ellucian, a higher ed … 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

Customer Case Study Kathryn Gunn is a post-doctoral researcher in the Neher Lab of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department within the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She is a new client of ITS Research Computing. The Client The Neher Lab … Read more

As use of cloud-based technology continues to grow, ITS is taking steps to ensure that campus IT leaders will be prepared to participate in this transformation. Toward that goal, ITS held cloud essentials training for four full days in June … Read more

Through ITS’ leadership, UNC-Chapel Hill has become a founding member of the RHEDcloud Foundation, along with 14 other universities and corporations. The nonprofit RHEDcloud Foundation launched in March to initiate the RHEDcloud Project, an open-source project for collaborating on cloud … Read more

In February, ITS Communication Technologies brought together IT pros from campus, Triangle-area universities and elsewhere to talk to Internet2 about the computer networking consortium’s cloud strategy, offerings and plans. Mark Johnson, Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor for CommTech, organized the four-hour … Read more

Watch this week’s Tech on the Street video to learn more about the cloud, and then read our interview with Stan Waddell, Assistant Vice Chancellor for IT Infrastructure and CTO. Stan shares best practices and insights on cloud storage security. … Read more