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Dark Data – Data that no one knows about anymore
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“Keeping order is not difficult. Cleaning up, on the other hand, is very difficult.” That’s kind of the saying, isn’t it? No matter how you spin the proverb, this principle applies not only to children’s rooms and closets, it also applies to our digital memories, and many people are not yet aware of this. Just because we can’t touch digitized data doesn’t mean it doesn’t waste space or energy. In Germany, around 66 percent of the data held is “dark” and lies below the surface of users’ consciousness. Read this article to find out what this is all about.
Safe on the Internet: Certificate change of RWTH Single Sign-On
Securely connected? A look at the URL and a click on the lock symbol will show you!
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“The connection is secure” – These words contain a short but revealing piece of information. A valid certificate for a website indicates if it has a secure connection and sensitive data, such as passwords or bank data, are transmitted in a protected environment – this is also the case with RWTH Single Sign-On. The certificate for sso.rwth-aachen.de has now been replaced, as the existing one expires on July 28, 2021. Have you noticed this? Some services were temporarily unavailable during the changeover, but are now running again. We’ll show you why it’s worth taking a look at the certificate and what you should keep in mind when using the RWTH Single Sign-On. Read the rest of this entry »
That’s it: The IT Center EM 2021 Riddle
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As of Sunday, 11 July 2021 23:55, it is official: The Italian national team has won the title at the European Championship 2021. Italy defeated England by a 3-2 score after a dramatic penalty shoot-out during the final match.
11 countries, 24 teams, 51 matches, 142 goals – including 11 own goals and 8 overtimes with 4 penalty shootouts – it was an exciting and emotional European Championship.
Congratulations to Italy for winning the European Championship! Read the rest of this entry »
The IT-ServiceDesk is reopening for personal support!
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We can finally welcome you in person again! Our IT ServiceDesk is reopening and you can get our assistance directly on site. Read the rest of this entry »
ISC High Performance 2021 Digital –
The largest virtual community meeting for hpc
Live at ISC21
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This year, the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) was once again held digitally from June 24 to July 2, 2021. With more than 3,500 attendees and exhibiting companies, this year’s ISC 2021 Digital is the largest virtual community gathering for High Performance Computing (HPC), Machine Learning (ML) and High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA). Read the rest of this entry »
New layout for PasswordReset
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Who does not know it? With all the passwords and usernames you have to remember, it can easily happen that you suddenly can’t remember anything when logging in.
Fortunately, this is not a problem at all because there is the possibility to set a new password before logging into the RWTH Single Sign-On or to have the username sent to you. After logging into the RWTH Single Sign-On account, you can then set passwords for all other services in IdM Selfservice. Read the rest of this entry »
RWTHmoodle User Survey 2021
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This year’s RWTHmoodle user survey has already started on 07.07.2021. As in previous years, we are asking users who have been authorized and actively used at least one course room during the summer semester to participate. Your experiences with the system and your feedback are especially important to further improve RWTHmoodle and to adapt the support offer accordingly.
Many countries, many languages – one EC! The IT Center EM 2021 Riddle VII
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After a total of 38 exciting games, the final of this year’s European Championship will take place next Sunday, 11 July 2021. At 9 p.m., Italy and England will face off at London’s venerable Wembley Stadium.
For the last time, we will be keeping our fingers crossed and feverishly cheering. At the same time, the last IT Center EM 2021 riddle will take place – so take the chance and join in one last time! Read the rest of this entry »
User Satisfaction Survey 2020 – The Results are online!
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In October and November 2020, we conducted our annual user satisfaction survey, in which all customers were able to rate the IT Center’s services and support. We also requested suggestions for improvements and – due to the special situation – asked questions about the IT Center’s handling of the Corona situation. Read the rest of this entry »
Onboarding – digitally and with heart
New employees in home office
Digital onboarding together and with heart.
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The IT Center is a central IT facility of RWTH Aachen University that supports the university’s core processes and provides IT services. Regardless of whether a service is provided specifically for a single customer or in the same way for many customers, corresponding processes must be developed or analysed and optimised. The customers and users of the (IT-)services provided by the IT Center include not only students, employees and institutions of RWTH Aachen University, but also other universities and external research institutions and companies. Digitization, cloud, high-performance computing, 5G and the associated IT infrastructure – the developments in the IT industry are unstoppable. In order to drive these developments forward in the long term, the IT Centre is constantly on the lookout for new employees. Read the rest of this entry »
