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The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Learning specialist Balazs Kudelasz spent most of his career working in organizations with a centralized IT department. So when he learned that FIS and CSSD were merging to form Pitt IT, he saw it as a logical decision in the right direction. "There really is no point for the IT function to be decentralized. The whole process flows better—everything is quicker and more streamlined—when we're all one organization," he explained. "It raises everyone's level of expertise." 

When Heather Lego first learned that FIS would be merging with CSSD, she was a little uncertain. Working in FIS Business Solutions, she'd only worked with a couple people who would be become her new coworkers, and she was concerned people would take sides. Instead, Lego was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly the merger went.

On Saturday, I had the honor of walking across the stage and turning my tassel, officially becoming a Pitt alumna. I’ve been reflecting on the last four years at Pitt. As a Pitt IT student blogger, I’ve especially thought about all the tech tools that I really loved … and wish I’d taken full advantage of a lot sooner.

Pitt Information Technology will update Shibboleth — the system that enables Pitt Passport for secure, single sign-on access to multiple University services — on Saturday, May 10, between 11 and 11:30 p.m. Although no service disruptions are anticipated, Pitt IT encourages you to report any issues to the Technology Help Desk at +1-412-624-HELP (4357).

Pitt Information Technology will perform overnight network maintenance beginning on Friday, May 9, at 11 p.m., through Saturday, May 10, at 3 a.m. The Pittsburgh campus will experience disruptions to Wi-Fi and wired network connectivity during the upgrade process. For example, network connectivity to cloud providers, websites, or other internet resources from campus or the datacenter, or accessing campus resources remotely from GlobalProtect or other external services may be affected during the above maintenance window.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Monitoring confirms the issue remains resolved.

Pitt Information Technology recently completed a year-long initiative to develop an IT 10-Year Horizon and is now socializing the plan with the University community for feedback. You can read the Horizon on Pitt IT’s Technology website and share your feedback via a brief online survey. 

A new project announced April 23 brings together unusual bedfellows — Pitt Health Sciences and sports analytics experts in Pitt Athletics — to partner with Amazon Web Services and Pitt IT for a student-led collaboration on data and artificial intelligence.

This provides our findings regarding the network service interruption the University experienced on May 1. On behalf of Pitt IT, we extend our apologies for the inconvenience that this issue caused the Pitt community. The issue began at approximately 11:30 a.m. and was resolved by 5:25 p.m. The root cause was determined to be a network configuration change made to a nonstandard device in our data center. The device was part of a colocation agreement Pitt IT has with another campus group. The change disrupted network traffic, affecting services hosted at the Data Center. At the time of the change, Pitt IT was following an end-of-term “change freeze” where all system changes/modifications were placed on hold. Pitt IT is taking the following steps to address this mishap and prevent similar issues from reoccurring: • Communicate and enforce change freeze procedures for all services at the Data Center • Evaluate additional technical safeguards to enhance the automated protections Pitt IT already has in place • Streamline and improve processes for announcing major unplanned outages Our commitment to continuously improving the services and support we provide to the Pitt community is our highest priority. Should you have further questions or need assistance, our Technology Help Desk is always ready to help at \+1-412-624-HELP \(4357\).

On April 23, Pitt launched a monumental initiative with the official ribbon-cutting for the newly established University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences and Sports Analytics Cloud Innovation Center, powered by AWS. Attendees from Pitt Information Technology, Pitt Schools of the Health Sciences, Pitt Athletics, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) came together to celebrate this innovative collaboration.

Verizon has resolved the issue and restored full service.

Power appears to have been restored campus wide. Affected Greensburg campus services, including MyResNet Wi-Fi, are coming back online. Pitt IT is monitoring services closely and will post any additional updates to status.pitt.edu.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The University of Pittsburgh and Amazon Web Services have launched a Health Sciences and Sports Analytics Cloud Innovation Center, where paid student interns will begin developing applications to tackle real-world challenges in healthcare and sports starting this summer.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.