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What are public, private and hybrid clouds? Public clouds are services based on the standard cloud computing technology to provide flexible and on-demand computing and network resources to the general public over the internet. A public cloud deployment model is different from a private network ...
The new school year has just commenced and the Computing Services Centre (CSC) would like to take this opportunity to introduce the Virtual Desktop Service (VDS) to new students and provide a brief update on the enhancements made on the VDS during the course of the year. The CSC had launched the ...
Some hardware and software in the CSC Teaching Studios have been upgraded this summer: PC Hardware Half of the CSC Teaching Studios, around 500 PCs, have been upgraded to newer hardware as described in the table below. By using the Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS), these PCs have been configured ...
CityU is collaborating with various organisations and wireless service providers (WSP) to provide free Wi-Fi services for all CityU staff and students outside the CityU campus. Hotspot locations span over 70 countries world-wide. When you visit any one of these hotspots and provided your Wi-Fi ...
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ “Successful businesses understand the value of timely, accurate information, good communications and secrecy. Information security is as much about exploiting the opportunities ...
As mentioned in the March issue, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) will make Windows 10 available on CSC-managed computers for teaching and learning starting Semester A 2016-17. In the meantime, the Central IT is testing Windows 10 compatibility with all in-house developed central applications ...
With all staff mailboxes migrated to Office 365 (O365), the migration of on-premises email supporting tools is underway. One significant upgrade is the migration of on-premises email anti-spam tool to the O365 Exchange Online Protection (EOP) cloud-hosted email filtering service. The migration has ...
Handheld devices such as smart phones and tablets are so popular nowadays that their daily use frequently touch on sensitive and personal data such as email messages, conversational records, contacts, calendar events and even bank transactions. Many people replace their old devices but do not know ...
In view of the increasing popularity of Macintosh (Mac) computers in the University, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has expanded the support to our Mac users. Following is the list of supported services for Mac computers: · Campus Network (CTNET) Connectivity o Fixed Network Point It allows Mac ...
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Relationship with ISMS Information Security Management System (ISMS) is defined in the ISO/IEC 27000 set of standards. The ISO/IEC 27001 standard sets out a certifiable and ...