IT Department

The department that runs the machines. Led since 2026 by Simone Campana, appointed through an open expression-of-interest call — and organized in specialised groups (compute, storage, databases, platforms, networks). It operates the identity stack, hosts the WLCG IAM instances, and carries the it-strategy-pillars into production.

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Topology

• Part of: rcs-sector
• Runs: cern-sso — the corporate authentication service.
• Runs: gms — group management.
• Runs: authorization-service-api — the authorization control plane.
• Runs: prevessin-computing-centre — the Tier-0 facility.
• Runs: eos — the disk layer.
• Runs: cta — the tape archive.
• Runs: cern-cloud — the private cloud under most of the data centre.
• Runs: batch-service — high-throughput computing.
• Runs: cern-paas — the web platform.
• Runs: cernbox — sync and share.
• Runs: swan — interactive analysis.
• Runs: indico — the event platform.
• Runs: landb — the network database.
• Runs: monit — the monitoring infrastructure.
• Runs: linux-service — the operating system estate.
• Runs: campus-network — the general-purpose network.
• Runs: technical-network — the accelerator control network.
• Runs: servicenow — the service management platform (jointly with General Services).
• Runs: cern-gitlab — code hosting and CI.
• Runs: cernphone — telephony.
• Runs: wlcg-iam — the IAM instances of the LHC VOs, on OpenShift.
• Runs: zenodo — hosted in the CERN data centre.
• Publishes: inveniordm — co-developed and released as open source.
• Cites: management-structure-2026-part3 — Campana’s appointment.
• Cites: it-vision-objectives — the group structure.