CT Industry
:: NEWS
MONITORING NETWORK
SECURITY. Central Michigan University
is using Cisco Systems’ IOS NetFlow with Lancope’s StealthWatch network
behavior analysis and response
solution, to enhance visibility across the
school’s 16,000-node network, monitor
network infrastructure, and improve
security decision-making. The Stealth-
Watch system gathers NetFlow data from
multiple routers throughout the network,
replicates this information in a single
data stream for network behavior analysis,
and then provides a
detailed picture of network
utilization and customizable
dashboard views of
network data.
Giant Voice will blast emergency communications across the
University of Texas-San Antonio campus.
LOUD AND CLEAR.
The University of Texas
at San Antonio has selected Cooper Notification’s WAVES (Wireless
Audio Visual Emergency
System) mass notification
system for its outdoor
campus emergency notifi-
cation system. Four WAVES high-power
speaker arrays, known as Giant Voice,
will be installed on the 600-acre main
campus, providing the capability to
broadcast a siren alert followed by a live
or recorded voice message tailored to the
situation. The system can alert the entire
campus or individual areas, depending
on the scope of the emergency.
SHORT-THROW ADVANCES.
Market research company Pacific Media
Associates forecasts that the worldwide market
for short-throw and ultra-shortthrow
projectors will grow to 844,000
units by 2012, up from 80,000 units in
2007—a compound growth rate of 60
percent per year.
BY POPULAR DEMAND. Students
at the University of Wyoming have
voted to use their technology fees to
purchase Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite lecture capture
platform. The initial deployment
will include three Mediasite classrooms
in the school’s main lecture
building, plus one portable unit. Faculty
scheduled to teach in that building
will have a chance to demo the lecture
capture technology this fall. By spring
of 2009, instructors will be able to
request the system, dubbed WyoCast
On-Demand, as part of their classroom
environment. Read more here.
OPENING UP. Blackboard has partnered with
Syracuse University (NY) to develop
software that will enable institutions to
connect their Blackboard learning environment
with the open source Sakai course management
system. The effort is part of Project
NG, Blackboard’s initiative to
support next-gen teaching and learning
by developing a more open, flexible
platform for better personalization, customization,
and integration.
:: M&A, Etc.
eLEARNING ACQUISITION.
Customized learning solution vendor
Cengage Learning has acquired Gatlin Education Services, a provider
of asynchronous, web-based training to
colleges and universities. Gatlin will be
integrated into Cengage Learning’s
Education to Go online training and
education solutions.
:: PEOPLE
NEW CEO. Lane
Bess has joined
firewall platform
developer Palo Alto
Networks as CEO. Bess
previously served as executive VP
for global sales at Trend Micro.
AVOCENT EXEC. IT infrastucture
management vendor Avocent has named Michael
Borman as CEO. Borman most
recently served as VP, worldwide
sales, IBM Software Group. Ed Harper, currently serving
as interim CEO, will continue to
serve as chairman of the board.
ACUTA PREZ. Corinne Hoch,
Columbia University’s (NY) director
of client relationship management,
recently took office as the 2008-
2009 president of ACUTA, the
Association for
Information Communications
Technology
Professionals in
Higher Education.
