The core team responsible for our multi-year initiative to improve the energy efficiency of our research and operational computing datacenter has been recognized with two awards in one month. The team was recognized with a Director’s Achievement Award and a Larry Sautter Award from the University of … [Read more...] about Greening our Datacenter Team Recognized with Director’s Achievement Award and UC Larry Sautter Award
Collaboration
A New Map That’s So Much More
Adam Stone posted on Jun 20, 2012 LBNL is a pretty big place. If you're an employee who hasn't been around forever, you've probably wandered past buildings and wondered what kind of cool science goes on in there. And if you're a member of the community, outside of tours and websites, you … [Read more...] about A New Map That’s So Much More
Tools for Conference and Meeting Planners
Adam Stone posted on May 22, 2012 Scientific conferences, reviews, and meetings are a critical part of our work at Berkeley Lab. IT offers a number of tools to help you with the lifecycle of conference planning. Conference and Meeting Websites Google SitesQuickly make sites for … [Read more...] about Tools for Conference and Meeting Planners
GQueues – New Look and Functionality
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 14, 2012 The GQueues product continues to improve. If you need a task manager built into our Google Apps Suite of tools, go to the "More" link and click on GQueues. New Look (re-posted from a company announcement) In case you haven't … [Read more...] about GQueues – New Look and Functionality
Google Drive Released Tuesday April 24
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 24, 2012 Google just announced in their Official Enterprise Blog today that they are releasing Google Drive to consumer and Rapid Release Google Apps domains. Berkeley Lab is on Rapid Release. What is Google Drive? With Google Drive, your users … [Read more...] about Google Drive Released Tuesday April 24
Google Sites – Survey Results
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 17, 2012 A quick survey of Google sites users turned up some interesting results. (survey done with Google Docs>Forms tool) Collaborative Team sites was the category chosen most often. We are speculating that conferences and workshops will be a use … [Read more...] about Google Sites – Survey Results
Changes Planned for Identity Management Services
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 30, 2012 Significant changes to our Identity Management Services are underway. LDAP Directory Services One Time Password (OTP) Services Increase in use of our Single Sign-on and Federated Authentication Service The first two are targeted … [Read more...] about Changes Planned for Identity Management Services
Version Control System – Now Available
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 20, 2012 IT recently concluded efforts to provide Bitbucket, a distributed version control system for software developers, to lab users. We are in the early stages of rollout and are looking for some early adopters. Bitbucket supports both Git … [Read more...] about Version Control System – Now Available
Whats New in Matlab
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 06, 2012 R2012a Release Highlights for the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families For those of you are Matlab users, a 30 minute video concerning the latest improvements can be found here For a short intro to a variety of products impacted by this … [Read more...] about Whats New in Matlab
Mailstop Changes in Lab Directory
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 02, 2012 Background Direct (self service) update of location, phone, fax, mailstop, and personal web page was implemented last Fall. At the time, we noted there was some work to be done to re-engineer the process involving mailstops. This work has been … [Read more...] about Mailstop Changes in Lab Directory
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