ITLC Report, May 2006
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September 8, 2009 10:48:14 AM PDT
The May 2006 UCSD report to the ITLC (Information Technology Leadership Council) summarizes key computing and communications issues for the past several months. For more information, please click the Technology tab at the top of this page.
Computing
- TritonLink, the Student Portal, and Blink, the faculty and staff portal, have been integrated into a unified look and feel.
- Analysis work is in progress on a new home page for UCSD. It will be integrated with Blink and TritonLink, using the Vignette portal and content management system.
- The Blink Research tab has several new features, including a Google search of faculty expertise, and a search mechanism for research-related forms.
- Blink and TritonLink now have resources for parents.
- A new Summer Session application system is in place.
- John McCleary will retire in June 2006, and Karen Cangialosi will assume his responsibilities.
- UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) will be held at UCSD July 16-18. Registration opens this week, and the conference cost will not exceed $200. Learn more.
Communications
- NGN2, the second five-year plan and funding model for the UCSD voice, data, and video network, begins in July 2006 with unlimited flat-rate for domestic calling.
- A new voice mail system with unified messaging capabilities is coming soon.
- Recruitment of our Network Security Manager position was successful with the hiring of Logan Browne, formerly with HP.
- We are working with our Library on a DNS mechanism to intercept access to certain Web sites in order to substitute a survey before access to the original site is allowed.
- We're in the process of setting up a recharge file system service. It will be a fully-redundant file storage service offered to departments to consolidate monetary, labor, and administrative costs. A distributed file system will offer quick, dependable access to file storage without the technical overhead of operating the service, while retaining administrative control.
