Adam Stone posted on Jan 31, 2012 Earlier this month, Google made big headlines with a major overhaul of its privacy policies. Google has described these changes as necessary to both simplify its policies and enable more customized content across its services. Critics have charged that the … [Read more...] about Understanding Google’s Privacy Policy Changes for Google Apps at Berkeley Lab
New Video Conferencing Services and Improvements
Adam Stone posted on Jan 30, 2012 2012 - The Year of Videoconferencing OK, maybe too grandiose, but between technology/usability improvements, new products, travel budget pressures, and sustainability goals, things seem like they’re at a real turning point with videoconferencing. IT is … [Read more...] about New Video Conferencing Services and Improvements
Calculating What’s in the Universe
Nina Lucido posted on Jan 27, 2012 Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence … [Read more...] about Calculating What’s in the Universe
GQueues – added to LBL Google Apps
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 24, 2012 On January 20, we added a Google Marketplace application called GQueues to the portfolio of applications we are offering LBL Google users. We have a one year subscription for the Lab - enough time to find out if LBL can make effective use of … [Read more...] about GQueues – added to LBL Google Apps
Data Center Utilization Report – December 2011
Nina Lucido posted on Jan 19, 2012 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: No new equipment Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: No new equipment … [Read more...] about Data Center Utilization Report – December 2011
IT Piloting Conference Management Tool
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 18, 2012 We have recently created a "pilot" service for conference management using Indico, a software tool created at CERN and used extensively for planning and managing large conferences. It continues to be actively maintained and LBL has the … [Read more...] about IT Piloting Conference Management Tool
January 11 Google Apps Classes
Adam Stone posted on Jan 04, 2012 IT Division is currently offering introductory courses, taught by a Learn iT instructor, on Gmail/Google Calendar and Google Docs. We still have room available for our Wednesday, January 11 classes. Other upcoming classes include MS Access, and MS Office … [Read more...] about January 11 Google Apps Classes
Workstation Purchasing Trends
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Dec 21, 2011 With the Help of Property Management and Procurement, we were able to come up with statistics on recent computer workstation purchase trends (as compared to the total inventory as recorded in the Property System). We also added in recent … [Read more...] about Workstation Purchasing Trends
Data Center Utilization Report – November 2011
Nina Lucido posted on Dec 20, 2011 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: 1 new storage node added Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: No … [Read more...] about Data Center Utilization Report – November 2011
Mail List Service
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Dec 19, 2011 Strategic Direction (as of December 2011). At the present time, the IT Division manages three different mail list services: smartlists, majordomo, and sympa (open source mail list software). We are consolidating these three into an updated … [Read more...] about Mail List Service
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