New CIO for SHU

May 13th, 2015 | Posted by Jennifer Kennedy in Staff - (0 Comments)

  Howard Whiteley joined the University on 11 May as the new Chief Information Officer in IS&T. Howard joins us from the University of Manchester where, for the last 18 months, he has been leading the transformation of the IT Services function.  Prior to this, Howard led a major initiative at the University of Leeds to deliver …
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This year IS&T will be making much of the software for teaching for the 2015/16 academic year available for virtual testing.  This will be done through the University’s remote desktop services, vWorkspace.  You can already access a beta version of the 2015 Managed Desktop through this service to test software such as Java 8 and …
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A beta version of the new September 2015 managed desktop (the suite of software we install on University PCs at the start of the academic year) is now ready for staff to test. It is available in vWorkspace, within the ‘MD Beta Testing’ folder. Not all the new software will be installed in the beta …
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