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In This Issue
CNS - General
CNS Administrative Staff & Some Technical Groups Moving to New East Campus Offices
CNS administrative offices and some CNS units will be moving to UF-310 on the Waldo Road campus in the spring of 2010.
CNS will also have an additional new data center, housed in its own building (UF-310A) on the site.
Complete Story at Right
NSAM Rate Reduction October 1, 2009
Effective Thursday, October 1, 2009, CNS rates for the NSAM data backup
service were reduced by approximately 33%
percent.
UF IT Award Meeting October 29 Emerson Hall 3 p.m.
All UF IT workers are encouraged to attend next "town hall" and Awards/Recognition event,
sponsored by Dr. Charles Frasier, on October 29, 2009, from 3:00-5:00 p.m.
at Emerson Alumni Hall. Emerson Alumni Hall is the new building across from Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on
University Avenue, guarded by statues of Albert and Alberta.
At this meeting, Dr. Frasier plans to recognize employees who have earned
service pins. All employees earning pins this year representing 10 or more years will be listed in the program
according to years of service. We have 16 CNS employees who have earned
service pins this year! Read on for more information.
New Faces at CNS!
After many weeks of preparation, the ERP Infrastructure Group moved into their new home at CNS/SSRB on Friday,
October 9, 2009. They are on the first floor, in the area which formerly
housed the CICS group, Jim
Arnette, and Richard Marquis; thanks very much to those folks for moving to new quarters in order to help make this
happen. We also want to thank Lisa Redwine and Jack Schudel, who were also relocated during the shuffle.
For more information and to see all these new faces, read on!
Q&A: How to Establish or Change a LISTSERV Password
Q:
I'm an owner of a LISTSERV list. Do I need a password for my list?
A:
While you do not need a password to use your list (send and receive
messages), you do need a LISTSERV password to make changes to your list
and to use the web interface for list management. We strongly encourage
you to use a LISTSERV password that differs from passwords protecting your
work, academic, or personal logins.
Read on for the rest of the instructions.
Training Opportunities
IT Training for the UF Community
UF offers many free computer training programs for UF faculty, staff, and
students. Find out how you can get in on IT training. (And did we mention
that most of these opportunities are free?)
Check out http://www.it-train.ufl.edu
for more information on
opportunities like these:
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Microsoft IT Academy
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UF Information Technology Certification (UF ITC)
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UF IT Orientation
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ITSA Day
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Peer2Peer Training
Send an email to
IT-TRAINING@lists.ufl.edu
with any questions, and be
sure to take advantage of these valuable resources.
IT Security & YOU: Cyber Safeguards for UF Restricted Data Offered
October 28
Last Chance! Sign up Now!
Do you know anyone that handles confidential data? Please pass along this
course information to anyone at UF that needs more information about
protect confidential data.
The University of Florida is obligated to protect confidential data.
Failure to protect confidential data impacts UF liability, reputation, and
finances. This introductory course will explain the do's and don'ts of
using confidential data on computers. Attendees will learn when to use
encryption. Proper methods for disposal of confidential data will be
presented. You will learn what to do in the event of a confidential data
exposure. Important contacts regarding confidential data will identified
and technical resources for data protection will be discussed.
The course is free, but seating is limited. To self-register, sign on to
myUFL and navigate to My Self Service $gt; Training & Development. You can
then search by date, title, or course number.
Course Number: GET198
Course Name: Cyber Safeguards for UF Data
Location: Human Resources Bldg, Room 120
Start Date: Wednesday, 10/28/2009, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
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Some CNS Units to Move to Eastside Campus
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Some CNS Units Moving; Some Staying On Main Campus
Several CNS units, including our administrative offices, consisting of about 1/2 of CNS employees, will be moving away from the main campus in the spring of 2010.
They will occupy some of the new office space in the building designated as UF-310 at the East Campus on Waldo Road.
In addition to the new office space, CNS will have a new machine room in its own building on the site. This
building, designated
as UF-310A, is currently in the planning stages.
Who's Moving?
- Accounting
- Administrative Services
- Information Services
- Mainframe Systems, including
- The z/OS System Group
- CICS
- DB2
- Open Systems Group
- ERP Infrastructure
Who's Staying?
Even with the move, many CNS employees will remain on the main campus. Network Services, Operations, Telecom, and Network Infrastructure
will stay in their current offices to offer immediate customer service.
In addition, CNS will continue operating its data-center machine rooms on the 1st and 2nd floor of the Bryant Hall Space Sciences Center and the CSE building.
New Office Building Scheduled for Completion May 2010
The site at 2004-2170 Waldo Road was formerly used as a complex of offices, warehouses, testing laboratories and
equipment maintenance facilities by the Florida Department of Transportation, Bureau of
Materials and Research Office. It will now be home to UF-310, a building designated for administrative
offices and academic research facilities (offices, laboratories and training rooms). Several
buildings have been demolished and others will be renovated. The intent of this building is to allow for expansion on
the East Campus
so that the main campus can expand its core operations.
UF-310A, East Campus Data Center
The site will also house UF-310A, a 1-story data center that will include approximately 10,000 square feet of computing space. The purpose of this building is to provide:
- space for consolidation of campus servers into a central, secure, efficient facility
- disaster-Recovery/redundancy of enterprise systems
- space and infrastructure facilitate High-Performance Computing in support of the University's research mission
The new data center will be an addition to CNS's current machine-rooms (1st & 2nd floors of SSRB, and Computer Science Engineering (CSE)), which will continue operations as in the past.
For More Information
You can find more information about these building projects at the UF
Facilities Planning & Construction website at
http://www.facilities.ufl.edu/viewprj.php?prj=5561
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