Tag Archive: UCOP
UC Tech News
December 14, 2022
All Articlesbudget, financial report, TDS, technology delivery services, UCOP
Last fiscal year UC Office of the President retired its mainframe and saved almost $3 million dollars, improved its cyber security posture, and moved the systemwide undergraduate admission system to the cloud. These are just some of the stories in the UC Office…
Read more about UC Office of the President Technology Delivery Services releases annual review
UC Tech News
October 25, 2022
All Articleselectronic records, Events, UCOP
Join the UC Records Management Committee for the 2022 Electronic Records Day event: “The Great Digital Transformation – What’s in it for You?” Speakers will include experts in UC archives, records management and privacy who will share their knowledge regarding collaboration…
Read more about Register for the Electronic Records Day Event
UC Tech News
August 3, 2022
All ArticlesAdmissions, Awards, CASE Award, UCOP
By Judy Thai. The University of California’s (UC’s) systemwide admissions website received a record 12.7 million visits in 2021, partly as the result of a major upgrade that took place between 2018 and 2019, and involving coordinated work across UCOP Marketing & Communications (UCOP…
Read more about Redesigned UC Admission Website Wins Gold Award
UC Tech News
July 27, 2022
All ArticlesChief of Staff, job posting, remote work, UCOP
The University of California Office of the President Information Technology Services (ITS) group has an opening for a full-time remote Chief of Staff position UC Office of the President At the University of California (UC), your contributions make a difference. A…
Read more about UCOP Seeks New Information Technology Chief of Staff
UC Tech News
July 20, 2022
All ArticlesCloud Computing, Mainframe, UCOP
By John Ruzicka and Emily Weaver. UCOP is leaving behind a 50-year-old legacy technology and heading into the future in the cloud. What does that mean? As of June 30, 2022, we ended our reliance on the mainframe computer. As…
Read more about UCOP Moves Off Mainframe and Saves $2.95 Million
UC Tech News
May 25, 2022
All ArticlesRetirement, UC IT Blog, UCOP, Yvonne Tevis
By Van Williams. After nearly 34 years of UC service, Yvonne Tevis is retiring! Yvonne’s impact on the UC IT and UC Tech community cannot be overstated. She has helped build the systemwide community among technology staff across UC, most notably…
Read more about Editor of UC IT Blog, Yvonne Tevis, to Retire
UC Tech News
March 30, 2022
All ArticlesAccessibility, accessible technology, Descriptive text, hyperlinks, UCOP
By Amy Chen. Picture this—you’re reading through a website trying to find a link to a resource that you urgently need, but all the hyperlinks that you encounter say “Click here” or “Read more.” You don’t know what the links are…
Read more about No More “Click Here.” Why Descriptive Link Text Is Important
UC Tech News
March 16, 2022
All ArticlesCommunication, contract, Procurement, telecommunications, Thomas Trappler, Tom Trappler, UCOP, Zoom
By Thomas Trappler. UC Procurement is pleased to announce a new UC wide agreement with Zoom that expands on the previous agreement for meeting products (audio, web, video, etc.), and adds the cloud VoIP product and Zoom phone. This outcome…
Read more about New UC Wide Zoom Agreement
UC Tech News
March 9, 2022
All ArticlesAl Covington, Associate CISO, Black History Month, Charron Andrus, diversity, Dr. Carmen Robinson, equity, inclusion, Information Technology, UC Berkeley, UC CIO, UC Santa Cruz, UC Tech Assembly, UCB, UCOP, UCSC, Van Williams
Watch the UC Tech Assembly: Black Leaders Panel, which took place on Monday, February 28. The discussion featured Black members of our UC Tech community from various levels of leadership. Topics ranged from personal stories to allyship advice, to…
Read more about UC Tech Assembly: Black Leaders Panel Recording
UC Tech News
February 16, 2022
All ArticlesAmazon Web Services, AWS, Cloudera, collaboration, data management, Project Management, RDMS, Risk Services Data Management System, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Susan Whitney, UC Office of the President, UC San Diego, UCOP, UCOP Risk Services, UCSD
By Susan Whitney. I want to tell the story how a systemwide group successfully delivered a complex, well-architected, cross-functional team solution, on time, and within budget. In 18 months, we re-architected and migrated the UCOP Risk Services Data Management System…
Read more about Data Management in AWS: A UC Collaboration Success Story