December 9, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 3
Thirty-five IT leaders attended the second UC IT Leadership Academy this week at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. The program is a partnership between the UC IT Leadership Council (campus and UC Health CIOs) and Haas. Taught by…
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December 6, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis, Chief of Staff, Information Technology Services, UCOP. Network engineers travel to far-flung corners of the world to help build up research and education networks in places like Guam, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka, and Ghana, India, and Ecuador….
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December 1, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. Drones have emerged in recent years as an exciting information-gathering tool. At UC Merced’s newly established UC Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft Systems Safety, director Brandon Stark and his team…
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November 29, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Sherri Berger, Product Manager, California Digital Library (UCOP). The ten libraries of the University of California system hold a dazzling array of unique materials, including photographs, newspapers, maps, oral histories, films, ephemera, and more. Documents of world events and…
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November 21, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julie Goldstein, Cyber-Risk IT Security Analyst, UCOP, adapted from a UC Santa Cruz article. Online holiday shopping continues to grow in popularity. Last year’s Cyber Monday sales reached approximately 3 billion dollars, an increase of 12-16% over 2014’s record-setting…
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November 15, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 2
Posted by Sandeep Chandra, Division Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) offers a secure, end-to-end cloud cyberinfrastructure – called Sherlock Cloud – along with a portfolio of managed services for protecting sensitive data. The…
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November 8, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Alexa Rivetti, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. Just before 10:00 a.m. on June 2, David Lakatta, Systems Administrator at UCLA Library, was heading to work when he received a text on his phone, alerting him to go to a secure…
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November 3, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Desiree Silva, IT Communications Officer, UCM. Sometimes it’s difficult for information technology experts and higher education faculty to get on the same page. However, a recent project completed at UC Merced has shown how it’s done. The Graduate…
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October 25, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Tolgay Kizilelma, Chief Information Security Officer, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. Technology is an integral part of our daily lives, which means cybersecurity and cyber-risk are becoming ever more important. With the growth in digital information and increased reliance…
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October 18, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Dewight Kramer, information security consultant, UC Davis. This last year it has been my pleasure to work closely with the university’s procurement department in an advising capacity to review the contracts, and especially the Data Security and Privacy appendix,…
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