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Courses
Courses
Choosing a course is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make! View our courses and see what our students and lecturers have to say about the courses you are interested in at the links below.
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University Life
University Life
Each year more than 4,000 choose University of Galway as their University of choice. Find out what life at University of Galway is all about here.
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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
Since 1845, University of Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
University of Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
University of Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at University of Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni & Friends
Alumni & Friends
There are 128,000 University of Galway alumni worldwide. Stay connected to your alumni community! Join our social networks and update your details online.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At University of Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
Accessibility & LanguageSupport Services
Support Services
Hardware Monitoring
Information Solutions and Services will only monitor virtual hardware server status events on production servers. Test servers will not be monitored by Information Solutions and Services. This level of monitoring is provided as standard.
Virtual Server Monitoring Alerts
Information Solutions and Services can provide email alerting to system owners on request.
Storage Provisioning
Storage can be added to an existing virtual server already attached to the SAN. The space will be made available and left un-configured to the operating system. Configuration of this additional space is the responsibility of the Customer. To request additional storage, open a ticket with the Service Desk.
Data Backup
Each virtual server is backed up on a weekly basis.
Veeam Enterprise Backup and Replication software is installed on each virtual server by default and is configured to talk to the University of Galway backup environment.
Security tools
The University's approved SIEM and XDR security protection tools are deployed on all servers. All directories and files are scanned by default.
You must ensure your virtual servers meets University ICT Policies and is in compliance with the Public Sector Cyber Security Baseline Standard.
Firewall requirements
Virtual servers are fully firewalled by default. This means you cannot connect to any applications or services running on it, unless you request it. This includes remote access protocols, such as SSH and RDP.
When requesting a virtual machine, please advise any preferred firewall policy including justification for same. This might include:
- Source Addresses (e.g. specific area of the University, institutional address block, entire internet)
- Destination Ports
- Justification
Remote access to servers will only be supported using the University's remote access service.
