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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.

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.

As you descend the Colorado River, canyon walls rise higher and higher, thousands of feet into the sky. This dramatic landscape laid the backdrop for an epic 23-day rafting trip this past March for UIT's Chris Moore and 14 fellow adventurers.

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

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.

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).

UIT staff recognized for their excellent work.

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

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.

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.