Harpreet Gill, Application Developer, College of Dentistry

Data Centers and Servers Project Helps Units Better Align Resources With Needs

Friday, October 30, 2015

Migrating servers to a central facility addressed a retirement gap in the College of Dentistry and freed up staff to work on projects that are important to the college. Dentistry was able to look strategically at the salary line and where they could add the most value to the college. They re-purposed the retirement budget line to hire a new application developer, who has focused on key projects, like a lab information system for dental pathologists, and systems to track externship placements and courses taken for certifications.

Mary De La Garza, Systems Administration Director, Office of the State Archaeologist

Large Scale Storage Now More Affordable

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

A OneIT project team comprising technology professionals from various campus units reassessed the Large Scale Storage service for both research and business users across campus. Thanks to advances in storage technology, they were able to decrease the cost of large-scale storage from $60 per terabyte per year to $40 per terabyte per year. The service also offers 30-day online self-restore backup snapshots, file replication, and off-campus access to files.

John Prineas, Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Electronic File Storage Project Aids Research Process

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

OneIT unified a team of IT professionals from various campus units to address a common need. In assessing research data storage services at the UI, they determined that faculty would benefit from having access to more free storage—five terabytes, rather than the existing three. Having data stored in a central location makes it easier for researchers like John Prineas, a professor of physics and astronomy, to access and analyze information.

Rebekah Tjelmeland, Senior Application Developer, Information Technology Services

Student Record System Enhancements Simplify Tasks for Students and Advisors

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

New features in the student record system make scheduling appointments and sharing information much more convenient for University of Iowa students and their advisors.

In addition to putting key tasks in a single, easy-to-access site, the new features eliminate the need for departments to have distinct systems. This aligns with one of the OneIT@Iowa IT efficiency projects underway at the UI: streamlining the application portfolio to reduce redundancy. So far, the advising notes feature has combined six systems and the scheduler has merged four.

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