IT Services

The department of information and communication technology is responsible for the provision of central IT services. Firstly, these include basic services as prerequisite for a secure and reliable IT infrastructure: Security and access concepts, data provision and backup, disaster management/real-time monitoring, design and development of active and passive network infrastructure, virtualization technologies/server and data consolidation as well as implementation, migration and administration of operating systems and server-side services.

In addition, there are specific services primarily supporting the scientific workflow: Provision of special applications and high-performance computing systems, development of database and web applications and remote access.

These activities are accompanied by administrative processes like: Design and development of the entire IT infrastructure, medium- and long-term investment planning, coordination with the IWH management, documentation, work planning and controlling as well as communication with manufacturers, system houses, and partner institutions.