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Zoom Coming Campus-Wide for Video Conferencing Needs

UTO is excited to announce that Zoom is ASU’s new campus-wide video conferencing service! As use of the software is transitioned away from Vidyo over the next 12 months, we expect Zoom’s ease of use, audio and video quality, and support on Windows,…

OS Upgrades for Fall 2018

The University Technology Office is preparing to upgrade university classrooms and public computing sites to macOS High Sierra and the latest version of Windows 10 in the Fall of 2018! Testbed environments of the new image are currently available on…

Team Reduces a Server's Workload by 80 Percent

UTO’s Operations, while working on a project upgrading authentication infrastructure, discovered an excessive number of authenticated logins to ASU’s data aggregation and logging platform, Splunk, from an information security partner’s tool. This…

Lean Six Sigma Graduates Streamline University Processes

The first class of Lean Six Sigma Green Belt participants have graduated with the help of ASU’s Organizational Performance Office. This collaboration between Business and Finance and Global Outreach and Extended Education through the Ira A. Fulton…

The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation

The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new data privacy regulation that went into effect May 25, 2018. If users enter data into ASU’s systems while residing in the EU they would be covered by this regulation. This…

Sun Corridor Network Project Plans Broadband Access along I-40

Fiber optic infrastructure enables high-speed connections vital to education, research, medicine, commerce and economic vitality. Communities lacking adequate connectivity - particularly underserved rural and tribal communities and institutions -…