The UTS Messaging Team recently began a series of Exchange Briefings, open to all members of the Emory IT community, for the purpose of offering two key elements: 1) training for various Exchange-related elements, such as Lync installation and management, and 2) hot topics within the Exchange community. Coordinated by Jymbellyn Carthon (Infrastructure), the briefings […]
2012 was a very busy year for the storage team and, as a result, many of the systems administrators and even some of our customers. We took an aging 2-tier infrastructure of datacenter storage and replaced it with a 3-tier infrastructure that is not only substantially less expensive, but also hopefully more versatile: NAS / […]
Blackboard is scheduled to undergo a significant upgrade on the weekend of June 15 and 16. The Blackboard team believes this upgrade will significantly improve the user experience. The upgrade window runs from 6 a.m. on June 15 until 6 a.m. on June 16. During this interval, all aspects of the Blackboard system will be […]
Musa joins Data & Voice Engineer Team to help maintain the configurations of the switches. He comes to Emory from Georgia Perimeter College where he spent nine years advancing from being a Service Desk analyst to Network Specialist. While at Georgia Perimeter, he participated in a wireless upgrade, installed and maintained network switches, and adhered […]
The Chick-fil-A Leadercast was a one-of-a-kind event that was broadcast live from Atlanta and simulcast into communities across the globe. More than 100,000 leaders from around the world learned how to Simply Lead. By turns challenged, inspired, and encouraged, we learned how to improve our own leadership skills and also had the opportunity to network […]
After a one-year hiatus, the UTS Game Day returned to the Cox Hall Computing Center on May 16 and was a tremendous success. The event, sponsored by UTS but open to the entire OIT division, provided food, fun and camaraderie. The event offered a variety of Wii and xBox gaming, steel-tipped dart boards, a poker […]
This day is like no other on the Emory campus. It is a time when over 14,000 graduates, their families and friends converge first on the Quadrangle and then to other campus locations for diploma ceremonies and celebrations. The sea of chairs alone is staggering and to watch it all unfold, beginning at 4:30 a.m., […]