Data/Document Management
- Delgado CC Expands Outsourced Support Agreement with Presidium Learning
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11/3/2008
Delgado Community College (DCC) will be expanding its relationship with Presidium Learning for outsourced support for IT services, financial aid, the bursar's office, and registration. The new approach to servicing campus constituents, named DCCLive!, will provide students, faculty and staff a single place to turn with questions and issues about services provided by these departments.
- First Look at Live Mesh and Live Framework
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11/3/2008
David Treadwell, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Live Services Platform, announced the new Live Framework during a keynote address at last week's Professional Developers Conference that addressed Windows 7 and other tools and technologies that will make up the front-end infrastructure of the company's unfolding Software plus Services strategy.
- Microsoft Office To Be Available as a Service
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11/3/2008
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create, and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, Microsoft announced.Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create, and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, Microsoft announced.
- U Louisville Goes with GuardianEdge To Protect Sensitive Data
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10/31/2008
The University of Louisville has selected technology from GuardianEdge for hard disk encryption, smartphone protection and device control to safeguard data for the campus community. A motive for the deployment is the concern about potential data breaches.
- North Carolina State and IBM Expand Open Source Educational Cloud
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10/30/2008
North Carolina State University and IBM have announced plans to provide every student in North Carolina access to educational resources through NC State's Virtual Computing Lab (VCL), an open source, Web-based technology. Through this cloud--which is a set of Internet-based resources--students at the university, as well as K-12 schools and other colleges around the state will have access to educational materials, software applications and computing and storage resources.
- PDC: Microsoft Calls New Cloud Computing OS a 'Turning Point' for Company
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10/30/2008
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- Jenzabar To Open Up ERP Code in 'Collaborative Source' Initiative
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10/29/2008
Jenzabar this week launched its new "Collaborative Source" initiative, a program that will make available the source code for the Jenzabar EX enterprise resource planning system. The aim of the program is to allow participating colleges and universities view and modify Jenzabar EX code "in order to align the administrative system even more closely with their institutional mission and goals."
- PDC: Microsoft Releases Geneva Beta
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10/29/2008
Microsoft this week released the first beta of its federated identity services framework aimed at simplifying the way enterprises deploy authentication services.
- Microsoft Outlines Windows 7, Slew of New Dev Technologies
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10/28/2008
Coming off yesterday's launch of its Azure cloud-based services, Microsoft today articulated how it will bridge PCs and mobile devices with an extraordinary blitz of announcements that included the first demonstration of Windows 7, its Live Framework, a bevy of new offerings for developers including WPF support for Visual Studio, and the first preview of Office 14.
- Tulane, Texas A&M to Automate Banner Batch Processing with Scheduler from UC4
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10/28/2008
A number of universities, including Tulane University in New Orleans and Texas A&M University in College Station, have licensed the Banner Enterprise Scheduler by UC4 Software to optimize their SunGard Higher Education Banner implementations. The Scheduler automates batch processing and report generation.
- LodeStar Integrates with eFolioWorld Portfolio
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10/27/2008
LodeStar Learning has announced a new partnership with eFolioWorld to integrate its electronic learning authoring suite, LodeStar, with the eFolioWorld electronic portfolio system. eFolioWorld is a hosted portfolio system developed jointly by ed tech provider Avenet and the Minnesota State College and Universities System.
- What's on Your School's IT Threat List?
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10/24/2008
The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), a national leader in information security research and education, recently released its Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009, outlining the top five areas of security concern and risk for consumer and enterprise Internet users for the coming year. In it, the GTISC forecasted five key cyber security areas where threats were expected to increase and evolve.
- Off-Cycle Patch Targets Worm-like Windows Bug
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10/24/2008
Redmond on Thursday released a critical out-of-cycle security patch affecting Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems.
- Virginia Commonwealth U To Foster Relationships with CRM
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10/23/2008
Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond has chosen the core Intelliworks platform as well as a newly released module, Intelliworks Program Management, to improve course enrollment, communications, and invoice and payment processing for programs at the School of Business.
- Microsoft Releases Virtual Machine Manager
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10/23/2008
Microsoft this week released the second major component of its virtualization strategy, making System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM 2008) as a download.
- ExtremeZ-IP Adds Windows Server 2008 Support
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10/23/2008
Group Logic has released an update to ExtremeZ-IP, a connectivity solution for Mac systems running in Windows environments. The new 5.3 release adds support for Windows Server 2008 and includes a number of general fixes and enhancements.
- Virtualization Momentum Strong but Slowing, Report Says
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10/22/2008
An IDC study released Thursday depicted a slowing worldwide market for virtualized servers. However, Microsoft and interoperability may heat things up again in 2009.
- Gordon College, Columbia College Upgrade ERP Systems
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10/22/2008
Gordon College, based in Wenham, MA, and Columbia College, based in Columbia, SC, have upgraded to the Jenzabar EX enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
- Ballmer Drops Hints About Windows 7, Cloud Computing
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10/21/2008
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer talked about the nascent Windows 7 operating system and the company's vision for syncing up applications in the Internet cloud at a Gartner-sponsored event Thursday.
- Cambridge U Press Fast Tracks Copyright Permissions
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10/20/2008
Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press, has selected Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink, an online content licensing service, to provide its readers a fast and easy way to obtain copyright permissions to share and distribute published materials directly from content pages online.
- Social Learning Platform Gains Developer Portal
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10/20/2008
Cerego has taken its first step toward opening its iKnow! social learning platform, a technology from aimed at integrating collaboration and learning into Web-based content, with the launch of the iKnow! Developer Portal. It's designed to allow users to create mashups using iKnow! content and is aimed particularly at "education-focused social communities."
- Cisco Addresses Data Replication over IP with New WAAS Module
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10/20/2008
Cisco has recently announced a new version of the company's Wide-Area Application Services (WAAS) software, designed to enhance the performance of storage applications.
- Business Intelligence Growing in Popularity in Higher Ed
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10/16/2008
Well placed technology tools for information management have traditionally been a way for IT to cut costs while improving services. Business intelligence (BI) software is a good example, with more colleges and universities beginning to see better data sorting, analysis, and reporting tools as a ticket to smoother, less costly operations.
- Project Kensho Released
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10/16/2008
Citrix took another step forward in its quest to push the envelope for virtualization interoperability by releasing a technology preview of Project Kensho, the company's multi-hypervisor toolkit that allows ISVs and IT managers to develop portable virtual machine (VM) appliances.
- 'Windows 7' No Longer a Code Name
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10/16/2008
In a break with tradition, Microsoft has decided to use the code name for the next version of Windows as the official moniker.
