[Cuga] JLab Weekly Briefs - a message from Kandice Carter

[Kandice Carter]

To access the full version of the JLab Weekly Briefs, visit: https://www.jlab.org/news/briefs/latest 

April 13 Briefs Excerpts: 

2016 Small Business Vendor Fair Set for April 14 
All members of the Jefferson Lab community are invited to the 2016 Small Business Vendor Fair on Thursday, April 14, in CEBAF Center, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Come and go as works best for your schedule. More than two dozen vendors will have displays and tables set up in the CEBAF Center lobby and in Conference Room F113. Check out the newest gadgets and wares. Pick up free samples, giveaways and information. Register for drawings. Free refreshments will be available. If you have any questions about this event, contact Jami Anthony, x7060. 

IT Division Systems Maintenance Tuesday, April 19, 5-10 p.m. 
The IT Division is planning a maintenance period from 5-10 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19. During this maintenance period, all MIS applications will be unavailable while patches are installed and the systems are rebooted. All MIS applications should be back up and available by 10 p.m. Also, all Common User Environment-managed web severs and login servers will be rebooted to finalize patch installations. A short incoming email outage will also occur while the email servers are updated. This email outage will be short and last no more than 15 minutes. All incoming email will be queued on remote servers and delivered when service is restored. Finally, Windows and Linux patches and Core CUE Software updates (Firefox, etc) will be released to all CUE desktops. Plan on rebooting your desktop to finalize patch installation no later than Friday, April 22. If you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance period, contact the IT Division Helpdesk at helpdesk at jlab.org or x7155. 

Lab-wide Open House & General Cleanup Set for April 14-22 
Jefferson Lab will hold a lab-wide spring cleanup April 14-22 (a Thursday through the following Friday) in advance of the April 30 Open House. The cleanup will involve all divisions and all employees. Special attention is requested to all areas – indoors and out – that will be traveled on or by, or be visible to the public during the April 30 Open House. For more information about the cleanup, see the all-staff memo: https://www.jlab.org/memo/open-house-general-cleanup 

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day Is Thursday, April 28 
The nation-wide Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day will be on Thursday, April 28. Jefferson Lab has no formal plans for the day. However, Jefferson Lab parents and grandparents are welcome to bring their school-age children/grandkids to work for all or any part of the day. School age is defined as 8-18 years of age, per the national Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day website. Adults are responsible for their children while they are at the lab. Children are not permitted in work areas that are restricted or have limited access due to technical or safety considerations. If you are planning to bring a child to the lab for the day, take a moment to review important safety reminders and get information about making the most of the day: https://www.jlab.org/memo/take-our-children-work-day 

Records and Information Management Month Fact of the Week 
Information is everywhere. It's on our desktop computers, network shared drives, web servers, mobile devices, cloud storage, and mobile storage. There are two types of electronic records of interest to records and information management (RIM). The first are structured records, which are contained and defined in relational databases behind applications such as Costpoint and Maximo. The second are unstructured records, which are electronic files found in a directory on a server, tablet, cellphone, or cloud drive in the form of Word documents, Powerpoint presentations, images, emails, etc. Unstructured records are the most unruly and hardest to wrap our arms around. To find out how to rein in your unstructured information, contact Kim Edwards at kindrew at jlab.org. 

RIM Trivia Question of the Week 
According to a recent New York Times article, IBM estimates that by 2020, websites, smartphones and sensors on everything from roadways to appliances will generate 44 zettabytes of data. IDC forecasts that the number of connected devices will grow to 32 billion and comprise 10% of the world's data. An innovating trend that is contributing to this rise in data is the increase in the system of everyday objects connected to the internet and able to automatically record, report and receive data. This system of interconnected, data-collecting objects has a name - can you guess what it is? All responses must be received via email by Kim Edwards by noon on Friday, April 8, when a random drawing will take place of all correct answers. One person will win a Starbucks gift card! (Winners will be notified via email no later than 5 p.m. Friday following publication. Limit one gift card win per person.) . See the full Briefs document for the answer to last week's question and the winner. 

To access the full version of the JLab Weekly Briefs, visit: https://www.jlab.org/news/briefs/latest 
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