Research IT Services

ITS provides services to the UConn research community to assist in facilitating and implements information technologies. This is accomplished by identifying systems, services, and capabilities that will have a substantive impact on the community and delivering them robustly and at scale.

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Contacts

General Contact

helpcenter@uconn.edu
860.486.4357

Location

Campus Address

Homer Babbidge Library

1st Floor

Storrs Campus

Mailing Address

ITS Help Center
369 Fairfield Way
Storrs, CT 06269-1266

Services & Rates

High Performance Computing

Provides UConn researchers with the computing power to manipulate, analyze, and store massive amounts of data at high speed.

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Enterprise File Services

Offers secure computer file sharing and storage.

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Virtualization Infrastructure

Provides approved customers a virtual machine (VM) with customized storage, RAM, processors, and administration rights.

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Vulnerability assessment

Provides a hosted application allowing departments to perform an information risk assessment.

Specifications

The Information Security Office provides Nessus Vulnerability Scanner to individuals responsible for the security of University-owned devices for assessment of computers, computer systems, networks, or applications for weaknesses. Weakness can be defined as:

Vulnerabilities that allow a remote hacker to control or access sensitive data on a system
Misconfiguration (e.g. open mail relay, missing patches, etc.)
Default passwords, a few common passwords, and blank/absent passwords on some system accounts
Denials of service against the TCP/IP stack by using mangled packets
Preparation for PCI DSS audits

For more information, please go here.

Internal Rates

Applications

UITS offers a variety of applications. A list of these applications and how to access them can be found here.