The 11th IT security campaign has started, focusing on how to keep intruders out.
Everyday life without IT devices is hard to imagine these days. They simplify our lives and accompany us almost everywhere. Unknowingly we give away more about our identity when we use these devices carelessly. Research data, hobbies, date of birth, interests, shopping behaviour or credit card numbers: Do you know what data is stored on your devices, and who has access to that data? With these tips, you can protect yourself against intruders.
Interview with Dordaneh Arangeh, Head of IT Procurement and Portfolio
“Moving ahead with full innovative power!” Title story of the magazine “Die Wirtschaftsfrau” / die-wirtschaftsfrau.ch | from 22/01/2019
Dordaneh Arangeh, Head of IT Procurement & Portfolio (ITS PPF) discussed and provided answers in an interview with the magazine “Die Wirtschaftsfrau” [“The Businesswoman”]. Quote from the editors: “Her career path reflects her unique personality. She made her way to the very top with a large helping of endurance”.
Last
weekend (16th-17th February), after long planning and several test phases, we
have successfully migrated more than 270 Site Collections with over 1TB
content, from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016. And we made it all in one go!
Leonhard Med: Secure Scientific Platform for Confidential Data
A secure, powerful and
versatile IT infrastructure for research on confidential data at ETH Zurich
Providing
IT solutions for scientific research on confidential data (e.g. human
biomedical data) is a considerable challenge. This is because it requires
fulfilling three main criteria that span a wide area of expertise, and that are
difficult to achieve simultaneously:
For the first time, the ITS Service Desk opens a temporary Pop-Up Desk at Hönggerberg at the start of the semester and can generally be reached earlier by phone.
Introduction of the events calendar version 2018.1
In collaboration with the Services department, ITS SWS is working on implementing a new version of the events calendar of ETH Zurich. From the client’s point of view, the aim is to rebuild all components of the overall system using modern design methods while considering the highest standards when it comes to user-friendliness. This goal is to be achieved in three stages over three years, the first of which was devoted primarily to the presentation of the events in AEM (ETH website) and on information screens, which were successfully launched on 13 December, 2018. Weiterlesen
Introductory and farewell lectures: Digitisation of historic content completed.
After more than five years, Multimedia Services have recently completed the project for digitising the analogue and «semi-digital» (digital data on analogue tape) recordings of inaugural and farewell lectures for the ETH library: The project, which started with the establishment of a «digitisation station» for VHS, DV and DAT tapes had to struggle with synchronisation problems initially and the lack of labor ressources at the later stages, which had to be put on ice for the migration of the video management system, and which also had to overcome hurdles due to licensing law, can now finally be viewed at http://www.video.ethz.ch/speakers/lecture.html: A complete collection of introductory and farewell lectures recorded at ETH Zurich. Weiterlesen
Global lessons for our personalised medicine projects – GA4GH and ASHG conferences
At the end of last year have started several projects within the two major programmes: national one:
Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) and
ETH-based: Personalized Health Research Technologies (PHRT)
They aim into finding novel solutions and at the same time applying in the clinical practice the principles of personalized (called also «precision») medicine. The programmes need state-of-the art IT infrastructures and providing them is the goal of the BioMedIT alliance.
Scientific IT Services takes part in several SPHN and PHRT projects and is one of the driving forces of the BioMedIT. We provide the computing infrastructure (LeonhardMed), data management solutions (openBIS), we also help and collaborate on data transfer between hospitals and academia, data analysis and security. Thus, SIS needs to actively follow the current status of knowledge and technological developments in the «hot topics» between the IT and precision medicine applications. Simply because it is largely driven by new achievements in IT, in particular in the areas such as systems security, big data, deep learning or novel collaborative methodologies. Weiterlesen
