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Office of Information Technology

Shared Services and Research Computing

Shared Services provides a wide array of enterprise-level infrastructure, middleware and outreach technology services for OIT and other campus IT organizations. The unit also provides research computing services for the research community in collaboration with the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI), the Office of the Provost and colleges.

Unit Leadership

Eric Sills, Assistant Vice Chancellor

Abraham Jacob, Director

What We Do

  • Facilitate the university’s Identity Management service, improving security and privacy, providing a single access point for an individual’s identity and improving efficiency of resource sharing within and beyond the university.
  • Provide web services, including Web Publishing, NC State’s webhosting and management service, OpenLDAP, GitHub, Splunk and Amazon Web Services.
  • Maintain the campus Active Directory services and the integrated Microsoft-based systems management infrastructure. 
  • Support enterprise-level integration of Linux/Unix services within OIT, including Red Hat Satellite, MySQL database, monitoring and notification services and Configuration Management Database.

Aaron Peeler, Manager

What We Do

  • Provide virtual computing, centralized storage, enterprise virtualization and backup services to campus units supporting NC State students, faculty, staff and partners.
  • Provide stable and resilient infrastructure to address the OIT mission and university strategic goals.

Amy Tawes, Director

What We Do

  • Provide middleware infrastructure and application services central to the design, development, implementation, operation and enhancement of NC State’s enterprise administrative applications.
  • Support systems including MyPack Portal, Financial, Human Resources, Student Administration, document imaging and reporting tools.
  • Provide automated workload services, including production management, batch and EDI processing, report archive and distribution, and payroll printing.

Everette Allen, Manager

What We Do

  • Provide web and mobile app development and consulting for software including the On Campus app, Go Links and Billboard.
  • Provide the macOs and iOS configuration management service via Jamf.

What We Do

  • Provide High-Performance Computing (HPC) services for all NC State faculty, which includes managing compute resources and tools and providing support and consultation.
  • Offer Research Storage, a free, secure and reliable data storage solution for campus researchers.
  • In partnership with the University Libraries and ORI, the Research Facilitation Service (RFS) helps researchers navigate and assess a broad range of possible research solutions to meet the increasingly complex technology requirements for conducting efficient, secure and innovative research.

Learn more about the RFS.