Recent News

• Security Operations Center (SOC) delivers 24-hour detection & response

  With the frequency and complexity of cyber attacks targeting universities and hospitals rising – day and night – the Security Assurance Team in UIT's Information Security Office launched a 24/7 Security Operation Center in March.

• Photos & Video: Summer Fiesta

  On a hot spring day that felt every bit like summer, members of University Information Technology, Information Technology Services, and University Medical Billing took a break from the office to gather at the Gallivan Center for fun, music, and food.

• Meet Your Colleagues: Service Management Platform Services

  Meet the team doing all the behind-the-scenes work for ServiceNow, the common service management platform used by University Information Technology (UIT) and Information Technology Services (ITS).

Other News

• Coming soon: Affordable archival storage for U campus/hospital

  University Information Technology is excited to announce a new service that’s sure to make IT managers happy: affordable object-based storage for archives, backups, and data replication.

• Photos: Anita Sjoblom retirement reception

  On June 16, friends and coworkers gathered at 102 Tower to bid farewell to Anita Sjoblom, product manager in UIT since 2010. Sjoblom is retiring and relocating to Mesquite, Nevada with her fiancé Dennis and dog Reesie.

• PMO News: Legacy phone system Coral officially decommissioned

  The Coral phone system was implemented in 2005 as a replacement system for off-campus clinics acquired by U Health. Over the last few years, however, we've been transitioning off-site clinics to newer systems that provide more capabilities.

• Guest column: An update on ITX

  The U's IT Exchange (ITX) group has been meeting now since June of 2016, and we thought this would be a good opportunity to provide a refresher on the kinds of topics covered, the meeting format, and how the meetings have generally been going over the past year.

• Network News: Fiber to DDC upgraded from 10 to 40 Gb

  UIT's Network Team has completed a major equipment upgrade, bringing eight links of Ethernet fiber that extend from campus to the Downtown Data Center (DDC) up from 10 Gb to 40 Gb, with the potential to be boosted to 100 Gb in the future.

• Photos: Utah Nanofab

  The Utah Nanofab, located in the Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building, comprises nano-scale imaging and surface analysis as well as a cleanroom thin film deposition and patterning (think: computer chip technology).

• Governance roundup

  The Teaching and Leaning Portfolio met on May 31. The Architecture and New Technology Committee (ANTC) met on June 26. The Strategic Information Technology Committee (SITC) did not meet in June.

• Self-service screen recorder available to U community

  UIT's Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) provides a do-it-yourself screen recording tool in Canvas – the Kaltura Desktop Recorder - which is available to all U faculty, staff and students.

• Reminder: Kronos update July 16

  Kronos - the University's payroll application - is getting a huge upgrade.

• Kudos & Congratulations

  UIT staff recognized for their excellent work.

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