New CIO for IS&T

March 31st, 2015 | Posted by Jennifer Kennedy in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

Howard Whiteley will be joining IS&T on 11 May at its new Chief Information Officer. Until the end of May, Leon Etherington will continue as Interim Director of IS&T and Emma Jeffrey will remain as  Head of Corporate Systems. Howard has led major initiatives at Northumbria and Leeds Universities and, most recently, at the University of …
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By Chris Cook, IT Support FD & DID moved into their new building, 1 Furnival Square (previously known as Arundel House) last month. I have had the pleasure of representing IS&T on the Building ‘Steering Group’ and the related ‘New Ways of Working’ Project Board since April 2013. ‘New Ways of Working’ introduced challenges for …
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We’re introducing a ‘select and release’ system to manage staff print jobs.  This means that, when staff collect their printing, they will log in and select which jobs they would like before printing them out.  The new system will improve confidentiality and reduce waste. Why are we doing this? At the end of each day, …
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IS&T are making an upgrade to the Enterprise Vault (the University’s email storage archive) to offer faster and easier archive access and better control and manageability. While we do this, you won’t be able to access your archived emails between 7am and 9am on Tuesday 3 March and again between 7am and 9am on Tuesday …
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