The networking and infrastructure team is responsible for all wired and wireless networking, and voice communications for the entire enterprise. The University has continuously worked to provide a world-class, stable network infrastructure both on-campus, in healthcare, and across the state. UK has successfully migrated from using commercial solutions to an integrated network solution that successfully merges voice, data, and video into a seamless customer experience. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones are now the standard at the University, providing a robust telecommunications environment across campus. This serves as a strong foundation for critical time-sensitive services like security and emergency management mass communications. Since the inception of Internet2, the University has played a major role in delivering high-speed network access across the state by providing the leadership for the Kentucky Postsecondary network and recently the Kentucky RegionalOpticalnetwork.PartneringwiththeCommonwealthofKentuckyandeachstateuniversity,UKdelivered the first 100 gig network and upgraded all connections tenfold. In1987,UK’sHPCprogrambeganwiththecreationoftheCCS,andtheacquisitionresearch-focusedcomputational hardware. For nearly three decades, IT professionals and computational scientists have provided HPC-focused consulting services, software support, and infrastructure operations. Over the past decade cyberinfrastructure (CI) utilization, once dominated by research in theoretical physics, computational chemistry, computational biology, biology, statistics, linguistics, and materials engineering, now compete for computational resources with the areas of artificial intelligence, computer vision, genomics, social sciences, and a broad range of other historically underrepresented scientific areas. In July 2016, the UK Research Computing (UKRC) group was formed to address the rapid growth, demand, and diversity of CI resources, tools, and computational techniques. Working in conjunction with ITS, CCS, and the Institute of Biomedical Informatics (BMI), the UKRC team serves a broad scientific community of researchers across academic and clinical disciplines, applying innovative cyberinfrastructure and computational techniques in the advancement of research. ITS has developed a partnership to provide technology-focused healthcare services to patients in support of the University’s service mission. Additionally, the University teams with the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment to support technology requirements of the agricultural extension services statewide. Recently, ITS has started a transformation from using many campus-based administrative, academic, and research services to providing an infrastructure that will support cloud-based solutions in every area of the University. The transformation requires the investment in enhanced network services and a re-evaluation of all personnel support areas, with the goal of continuing to provide world-class technology solutions to support the University’s strategic plan. 53 | EmpoweringTransformation HISTORY OF INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY @ UK 59 | EmpoweringTransformation