Kategorie: ‘Insight IT Center’
Happy Birthday – 3 Years of IT Center Help!
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Since July 2020, the documentation portal IT Center Help accompanies you and us. In this portal you will find answers to your questions about the IT Center’s IT services, such as eduroam, RWTHmoodle or HPC. Especially as new students or employees it is often difficult to find your way through the IT jungle. Among other things, illustrated step-by-step instructions and FAQs are available to help you.
As the IT service provider of RWTH Aachen University, it is very important to us to make our IT services as easy to understand as possible. To give you an insight into IT Center Help and at the same time celebrate the third birthday of the documentation portal, we would like to take you on a short time travel with this blog post.
The New IT Center Key Visual
Source: Own Illustration
The IT Center has a new key visual. The key visual, which we developed for marketing purposes, will be seen in many places in the future, in addition to the IT Center logo.
Whether on merchandise, the web or on print products – the key visual is versatile. In addition to the common logo, the key visual allows a clear identification of the IT Center in the RWTH Aachen University logo system.
The IT Center Picture Puzzle: IT Center Management
Quelle: Eigene Darstellung
#MeetMeWednesday: Our blog series “The IT Center Picture Puzzle” is drawing to a close, and to cap it all off, we have a particularly interesting interview in store for you. This time, the IT Center Management, Professor Müller and Mr. Bündgens, answer our questions. They talk about their daily tasks as well as about exciting projects and developments that will soon take place at the IT Center.
By the way, the key word we were looking for was “leadership”. Could you guess it? Find out more in this article.
Imagine Tomorrow: NHR4CES at ISC 2023
Source: ISC
It’s been a pleasure being at ISC High Performance 2023 in Hamburg, Germany! This year, we and the other seven NHR centers were part of the NHR Alliance booth. The NHR Alliance was one of 158 exhibitors, with 147 exhibiting onsite. 3.015 participants attended this year’s ISC, setting a new post-pandemic record. ISC 2024 will be held May 12-17 in Hamburg, Germany.
In addition to the booth, we contributed tutorials, paper presentations and our so-called Sofa Talks. We established the Sofa Talks at ISC last year and continued these talks this year. We invited guests to discuss relevant topics with them in a relaxed, personal atmosphere in our Sofa Corner.
Multifactor Authentication in IdM Selfservice
IT security is a major and important topic at RWTH Aachen University and the IT Center.
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Already in 2021, it was reported that the introduction of multifactor-authentication (Mfa) would provide systems with greater security against unauthorized access.
In order to offer the MFA protection to further services the IdM Selfservice is now equipped with the so-called “MFA Tokenmanager”.
ADAM – Active Directory Campaign
The “Managed Service Active Directory” service has been officially discontinued by the end of 2023.
Source: Freepik
There were several reasons for discontinuing this managed service. Among other things, the additional costs for the users, the high administrative maintenance effort and the insufficient scalability contributed to this decision.
Howevery, the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University already offers its facilities a far more advantageous alternative: the Active Directory for Workplace Management (ADAM for short).
After a three year project and pilot phase, during which the web interface and a security concept were designed, the managed service has now been introduced.
MATSE Trainee Wins 2nd Place at GermEval Contest
Source: Own illustration
Trainees bring a breath of fresh air to companies and often surprise with remarkable achievements. A notable example is Patrick Gustav Blaneck, a former MATSE trainee at the IT Center, who won the second place at the GermEval 2022 contest.
We as an employer think that it’s important to recognize and highlight the achievements of our employees. For that reason, we spoke with Patrick about his work, the experience he gained along the way, and his plans for the future.
Company Excursion 2023 in Landgraaf
Source: Own illustration
After a long break last fall, the IT Center employees were once again able to take part in a company excursion in 2022. Once again this year, we were looking forward to a day full of fun excursions.
The meeting point was the IT Center at 8:45 am. A bus was available to take the participants to the various activities. Of course, there was also the possibility to organize the journey by oneself. Whether by car or by bicycle, many good-humored interdepartmental communities were already formed on the way to the event.
The IT Center Picture Puzzle: NFDI4Ing Administrative Office
Source: Own illustration
#MeetMeWednesday
The long wait is over – finally the IT Center picture puzzle continues. In this article, you’ll learn all about the NFDI4Ingadministrative office. Who is behind it? What are the tasks and what does the future of the NFDI4Ing’s administrative office look like? This and much more you will discover in this interview.
Did you guess the keyword we were looking for? This time the correct answer was “networking”. If you want to know why this keyword represents the NFDI4Ing office, click on “Read rest of this entry”.
Participation in the Conception Phase of the DKZ.2R
Source: Forschungszentrum Jülich
Together with the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), the IT Center is participating in the conception phase of the Data Competence Center for the Rhine-Ruhr region, DKZ.2R for short. 22 projects were selected by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) from a total of 74 applications to participate in the conception phase.
