Centre of Information Technology Development

Sukurta: 17 September 2013

9 Saulėtekio, LT-10222 Vilnius
Tel. +370 5 236 62 01
E-mail

Director – Marijus Jurgutis

VU Centre of Information Technology Development (ITTC) was founded in 1963 as a part of the former Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. In 1980, ITTC was reorganized into a separate VU Department and moved to a purpose-built building in Saulėtekis University Campus. Nowadays, the main trends of ITTC activities are University Networking and Development of Information Systems. ITTC staff members are doing their best providing network services to VU community: managing University backbone network, some VU Department LANs, taking care of the Network security (CERT), managing DNS, VPN, WiFi (including eduroam), VoIP, email, administering VU Identity Management System, VU SSO, operating VU Data Centre. VU IT Helpdesk and computerized classrooms are also supported by ITTC. ITTC staff members are providing WEB and VM hosting services, and they are also working on VU cloud implementation extensively. The main activities related with the development of information systems are the followings:

Management and development of the student information system, including admission, the alumni records, and study unit courses, study programs, accommodation
Management and development of the staff, scientific research and publication databases
Management of the finance and estate information systems
Development and management of alumni and career service
Implementation and support for the library information services
Coordination and support to users of the administrative and Library information systems internal and external reports
Client software installation and maintenance for administrative systems
Oracle 10i/11i/12i database administration
Data centre management, application and integration of new trends of SDDC for cloud computing.

The staff members of ITTC are working closely in the state program Information Technologies for Science and Studies (LITMIS). VU Computer Network operates as Technical Centre of LITNET (Lithuanian Academic and Research Computer Network). More than 120 research and education institutions, libraries, other cultural as well as health care institutions are using the facilities of VU Computer Network. These Institutions also participate in the sub-programs dealing with the formation of the Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT) and Lithuanian scientific research data archive (MIDAS). During several past years the staff of ITTC took part in workshops and conferences in different countries: Germany, Austria, Greece, Latvia, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Spain, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The staff of ITTC has a possibility of improving the competence in information system design and development during their visits to universities of Spain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Holland, Finland and Norway. ITTC arranged several e-Infrastructure Reflection Group meetings and workshops to define and recommend best practices for the pan-European electronic infrastructure efforts.